The grumpy thread

[Morgan84]

It's better to pay what may be considered a premuim for something in good condition,than pay less for a pile of crap which will never be as good,and always be a manky old dog.

[Wilko220]

The AS Facebook page (which I don't bother to look at very often) seems to have been taken over by banger racers, delighting in the destruction of Montego hearses.

[sporty-shite]

A quick shufty round the interweb suggests you may just be a tad optimistic on the pricing, given the mileage and fuelling, good-looking motor though it is. IMHO, obv...

 

Slap it on the 'bay*, let it find its price?

 

 

 

*acknowledging fully the obvious & will-sapping negative possibilities this course of action may involve...

 

Was thinking the mileage might be a factor, but didn't think the engine would be an issue, the 1.9JTD is a belter (IMO) Going to reduce it to £3000, and see what happens.

 

As for the Bay..... That's proper last resort territory.

[sporty-shite]

And it goes on......

 

Collected the replacement CEM for the 480 from the sorting office this morning. Not much better than the old one. Wipers won't park (but at least they turn off now) info centre still won't work, and no central locking now.

 

I just can't bond with this car, and this isn't helping. Seriously considering stripping a few bits and scrapping it, which is a sin,considering the only reason I bought it was to avoid that happening.

 

Please offer me something decent to swap for it.

[RedSparrow]

The AS Facebook page (which I don't bother to look at very often) seems to have been taken over by banger racers, delighting in the destruction of Montego hearses.

 

I saw this too. One bloke (I won't get into naming names) who has posted there has an album full of pre-1960 stuff he has raced. I don't know why they think it's funny to try to wind people up like this. It's like 14 year old boy humour.

[cort16]

Fugging BCA just did an inspection on the Audi and presented me with a bill for 1200 quid. I think it's pretty much mint but are quoting stuff like the rear quarter needs painted because of a chip in the wheel arch. The cars done 40k in 2 years but work they've got listed in the inspection is looking to return the car to new.

Worse still the car's getting picked up tomorrow otherwise I could have got my painter mate to fix most of it for a couple of hundred quid.

 

The last lease car I gave back had zero rectification costs and it had done the same mileage and was in the same condition.

[alf892]

Argue it. BCA are just the inspector............who is the lease co..........most work to standard Ts 7 Cs which will have been available at the start of the lease.

 

However if you signed up to returning it as new.............pay up and learn!

[cort16]

Na, didn't sign for it and I've started a dispute with VW finance who the cars leased through.

[wuvvum]

Well the police turned up quite promptly last night - not a lot they could do as it looks like the window was smashed by a stone, but there you go. Obviously I couldn't drive the van in to Norwich with a bin bag over the window, and I'd had to leave the Rover of Doom in Norwich so I could take the van home last night, so I decided to drive in in the Peugeot. Only it wouldn't start due to a flat battery - not completely flat, but not able to turn the engine over fast enough to fire.

 

The Innocenti had a flat battery too (although that has more of an excuse as it still has the battery it had when it was imported from Italy in 2002), so the next option was to take the Nissan. Only the Nissan isn't taxed, so I had to drive to my shite storage facility, back the Toyota out and park it round the corner, then stick the Nissan on the drive. All of which meant I was 15 minutes late in to work. This evening I've got to take the Rover home, then bus or cycle back into Norwich to get the Nissan, then shoot off to my mate's garage to pick up a replacement window for the Transit.

 

Oh, and my back still hurts from hulking Honda Spacys in and out of the Transit. Still, my pain is probably nothing compared to that of one of the girls in my department, who gave birth to a baby boy yesterday - Joseph William, weighing in at 10lb 13oz.

[wuvvum]

Just received a message from the high bidder on the 607 - "sorry i am not intrested again....so sorry". GR9.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Wow, this is the first time I'd seen the GOM/P thread bumped off the front page. What are you all so cheerful for?

 

I have plenty to grump about (like the highways agency contacting my insurers, without my knowledge or even the courtesy of getting the details from myself, about a claim for me having "damaged the road surface" by crashing into the concrete barrier- unusually, the insurers seem very cooperative and I will likely be able to cover the costs myself and avoid losing my NCD), but I am spending 99% of my time on Faecesbook talking Greek politics. I am going to be an MP candidate even if I don't even live in the bloody place. There's little chance of the party even getting into parliament, but at least it gives me the excuse of saying "well, at least I tried".

[Cavcraft]

Won a badly described ('Rover Copper') alloy wheel on eBay last night dirt cheap. Plan is to get the tyre off it, weigh the wheel in and flog the tyre. Seller is new to eBay and I paid immediately with a message asking when I could collect. Checked said auction site an hour later it's relished with 'do not bid sold sold sold'. He seems to be avoiding my text messages now too.

Oh well if he is pissing me about as I suspect then I'll just have some fun at his expense.

[cort16]

Nice car sporty but I saw a 1.9 JTDM 159 with the same mileage on a trade site for £2400 the other day.

I can get you a cap valuation on it if you want?

[sporty-shite]

Nice car sporty but I saw a 1.9 JTDM 159 with the same mileage on a trade site for £2400 the other day.

I can get you a cap valuation on it if you want?

 

FARK! That sounds cheap. Weighed them up on ebay/autotrader and it doesn't seem too strong, especially considering it's a good spec, but I suspect the mileage is a factor.

 

A CAP valuation would be good, if you could, although I suspect it won't be pleasant reading for me

[ashmicro]

Check your insurance quotes sir. I got a bit of a shock when I insured my 156.

[cort16]

Here's that 159. Looks mega cheap to me.

http://www.rybrook.co.uk/volvo/offers/used-car/trade/trade-39

 

I've pm'd you the CAP prices.

[TimothyClaypole]

Taking stuff to the tip, breaks my heart.

 

Not the stuff I'm taking but looking into the skips and seeing the wanton waste.

 

There was a drum kit and half a dozen garden chairs in the metal one today, some people are just stupid and lazy.

 

 

It was quiet so the workers were all stood fishing black bags from the general waste to see what was in them... and some bloke I'm pretty sure they knew but doesn't work there was taking cabling out of the small appliance skip...

[MrDuke]

Taking stuff to the tip, breaks my heart.

 

Not the stuff I'm taking but looking into the skips and seeing the wanton waste.

 

There was a drum kit and half a dozen garden chairs in the metal one today, some people are just stupid and lazy.

 

 

It was quiet so the workers were all stood fishing black bags from the general waste to see what was in them... and some bloke I'm pretty sure they knew but doesn't work there was taking cabling out of the small appliance skip...

 

When I visited a tip somewhere in the midlands a couple of years ago, literally everything that came in was checked by the guys who worked there, and everything salvageable was put in a 'junk shop' on-site; a big chunk of whatever they made went to a local charity, and apparently they were turning over 2 or 3 million a year. The prices they were asking were cheaper than most charity shops, and there was TONS of stuff, I could've filled the car with win. One lad spent all day stripping broken cheapo bikes and re-assembling them into working ones, they sold them for a fiver each. I don't know why more tips couldn't operate that way tbh.

[M'coli]

Cyberclap is making me grumpy. The wife's laptop aquired Smart Fortress 2012, and since trying to get rid of that it's not been able to connect to the internet when on Windows. It's not a hardware issue as I'm using it to write this while running Ubuntu off a memory stick, but can I get either the wireless or a cable to work with the router properly when on XP? Can I heck.

 

PS, it wasn't me visiting dodgy sites that gave it the cyberAIDS, I've not used it for about 2 months.

[Albert Ross]

Re: Wanton waste and going to the tip. I know the guys at my local tip quite well. Before its refit recently, I managed to glean a few great items. Full set of 195/80/15 Michelin 4x4 tyes.... brand new with stickers on... £10. Swapped them for a set of LR Wheels and an old gearbox... (Farmer had a Hilux).

Old lady throwing stuff into the metal skip was struggling to throw her deceased Husband's Golf Clubs out. Not the weight, but the sentimental value. A young lad (14ish) close by was watching them, tugging on his Dad's sleeve and pointing. She took a look and handed them to him, and wished him all the best with them! In the back of her car was a duffel bag full of 1970s Matchbox and Hotwheels cars.... I took them off her, popped them in the back of my motor, and gave them to my Grandsons for the sandpit.... they're still there I think! I also give the lads at the tip all my old brass and lead. In a bag normally, at Christmas.... with a half bottle of Scotch in it. It's amazing what doors it opens.

[sporty-shite]

Here's that 159. Looks mega cheap to me.

http://www.rybrook.co.uk/volvo/offers/used-car/trade/trade-39

 

I've pm'd you the CAP prices.

 

Cheers, PM'd you back. That 159 is super cheap, though. I could imagine BillyCav feeling a bit of love for that!

 

 

Check your insurance quotes sir. I got a bit of a shock when I insured my 156.

 

There's another grump altogether. Just had to renew the insurance on it, when I was banking on selling it before renewal time. Came out at £480, which I didn't think was too bad, considering*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*considering car insurance is criminally expensive

[Cavcraft]

I think they have to open the bags at the recycling centre (tip) now to make sure people aren't lobbing paint, old oil etc in. The skip company will get absolutely twatted in fines by the E.A if they catch them chucking this into the landfill sites.

 

Oh, I was right about the wheel I won on eBay. Lad said he stated it was sold, but he only did this on the second listing after I'd 'won' and paid for the first one. I've already had some small payback on it, stage 2 will be happening in the next few days.

Moral of the story? If you want a decent price on your item/s either start it for that price or put a reserve on it.

[cort16]

My sister job invloves helping charity's who're trying to start up with new projects. The big thing she's been involved with lately is putting recycling centres on the dumps.

It's a no brainer really. When some takes stuff to the dump (sofas, tv's, drum kits, 7ft cuddly gorillas etc) the recyling project intercepts it then sells it mega cheap through a shop on site.

The result of this is people get to buy the tat for low low prices, the stuff doesn't get landfilled and the charity makes money and donates what ever they make over and above the running costs to local charitys.

In my view this should be in every major dump but the only one that I know of that's got off the ground (thanks to the councils) is in Oban.

[MrDuke]

My sister job invloves helping charity's who're trying to start up with new projects. The big thing she's been involved with lately is putting recycling centres on the dumps.

It's a no brainer really. When some takes stuff to the dump (sofas, tv's, drum kits, 7ft cuddly gorillas etc) the recyling project intercepts it then sells it mega cheap through a shop on site.

The result of this is people get to buy the tat for low low prices, the stuff doesn't get landfilled and the charity makes money and donates what ever they make over and above the running costs to local charitys.

In my view this should be in every major dump but the only one that I know of that's got off the ground (thanks to the councils) is in Oban.

 

Actually, this is exactly what I was trying to describe (badly) - I can't remember the actual town where I visited one, but it was around the Midlands somewhere, and it was working very well indeed.

[warren t claim]

I was collecting the waste electrical skips around Merseyside a couple of months ago and managed to blag some vintage mobile phones and a couple of decent desktop PCs.

 

Alas as I was tipping one load the dumped stuff got stuck in the skip, I lobbed the truck into gear and shot forward a few feet to dislodge the pile of heaters in the skip and in the process drove over a white carrier bag that I didn't know contained about ten vintage Nintendo Game and Watches, some with double screens.

[eddyramrod]

My sister job invloves helping charity's who're trying to start up with new projects. The big thing she's been involved with lately is putting recycling centres on the dumps.

It's a no brainer really. When some takes stuff to the dump (sofas, tv's, drum kits, 7ft cuddly gorillas etc) the recyling project intercepts it then sells it mega cheap through a shop on site.

The result of this is people get to buy the tat for low low prices, the stuff doesn't get landfilled and the charity makes money and donates what ever they make over and above the running costs to local charitys.

In my view this should be in every major dump but the only one that I know of that's got off the ground (thanks to the councils) is in Oban.

 

Actually, this is exactly what I was trying to describe (badly) - I can't remember the actual town where I visited one, but it was around the Midlands somewhere, and it was working very well indeed.

 

That is ABSOLUTELY the way all municipal dumps should be run! Especially with the bike-building lad, how many bikes get skipped a year?

[cort16]

It's a no brainer really. Most dumps have enough space for a shop and there's no real downsides to it. She was involved in setting one up in Dumfries then at the last minute itdidn't happen. It's better than the good stuff being filtered off by the guys at the dump and re-sold on gumtree or what ever.

 

There used to be a guy in Gala whos was always raking the dump for stuff but they change the regulations and he wasn't allowed to do it anymore. They even put a security guard on it but he used to lie up on he hill with a pair of binoculars waiting for the guard to leave his station before running down the hill and pretty much diving in head first before the guard came back and chased him. I seem to remember he had a pushbike with a home made trailer overflowing with all the shite he'd nicked out the dump.

[warren t claim]

Recycling in Birkenhead. Yesterday.

[retrogeezer]

drove over a white carrier bag that I didn't know contained about ten vintage Nintendo Game and Watches, some with double screens.

 

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

 

 

You probably don't realise it but lots of tips do recycle stuff, it's just the person that runs the tip that does the recycling for their own benefit. The Crewe tip stuff is sold at a car boot, the same car boot has another seller that runs a tip in Preston.

 

The tip I used to go to in Farnborough was run by a fella that had a brand new Range Rover and a brand new Mitsi 4wd pick up with the number plate T10NKA.

 

Where there's muck there's brass!

[ayd]

Wife calls me in a right old flap as the Saab is stuck at the petrol station and just won't start, she's apparently been trying for 20mins and in a right old tizzy over it.

 

I have to ditch work to rescue her just to turn up, flick the key and hear it start first time.

 

I say nothing get back in my car and go back to work

 

 

 

 

Plus side I get home tonight and she's bought me some beer and a box of cream cakes!