The grumpy thread

[RedSparrow]

I would agree bwith Cavette. As sad as it sounds, if the banger lads are the only ones genuinely inerested in buying, go for it.

Go and watch if you can, and take some photos. It'll at least go out with a bang and unlike with your Professor mates idea you will get a grand or so back.

[willswitchengage]

2149 views and 75 watchers on ebay at present. 0 phone calls. 1 message from some dick saying "If it was a diesel, I'd have it".

 

You would definitely have more responses if you changed font to Arial Black and wrote "I've had 75 watchers !!!" and "I will NOT convert to diesel as it's taing the piss !!"

 

Are the seats like new, with NO tears, and does it have an excellent working engine?

[FredTransit]

 

I'm going to speak to a couple of the auction houses about putting it in a classic sale, but I'm not going to let it go for silly money. I will let the Prof have his way with it if it doesn't fetch a grand or over. I'd rather he blows it to bits than give it away, at least that way it'll be memorable for something other than that bloody awful PRV engine.

 

I don't get it. You won't take less than a grand for it, but are happy to loose the money by blowing it up. Who's being punished here? You or the car?

[Station]

Annoying having a car that won't sell and is attracting time wasters, the only thing you can do is wait, it'd be a sham to see it get bashed into oblivion in a banger race, I hope it sells before that. Someone must want it!!

[Spiny Norman]

I don't see the Ebay ad any more, what did it eventually fetch?

[MrDuke]

£915 apparently, reserve not met

[Pete-M]

Yup. £915. Not enough.

 

I'd be up for a swap on it, but it'd have to be for something daft that doesn't overlap with the Impreza or XJR.

[scaryoldcortina]

I've had a terrible day. This morning I had to get up earlier than usual to drive my daughter to Newcastle because she was going into hospital. Over an hour fighting through traffic and rain. Then another hour back again. I was almost home when she rang to say the surgery had been postponed because she needs another CT scan first, so I did it all again. This of course left me in a wonderful mood for this afternoon.

 

I should have been an easy job - snapped aux belt on a peugeot 206 HDi - but no. I already looked at the car intending to fit a belt at the roadside but when it went it lassooed the tensioner pulley with the flappy bit of the belt and bent the bracket meaning the new belt would run straight off. I tried to remove the tensioner, but you can't get the bolt out because it hits the chassis. So I brought it to the garage, still assuming that once the bolt was out (by undoing the engine mount and lowering the engine to gain some clearance) it would all go well and be back together and sorted by teatime.

 

Well, I R RONG. I've spent all afternoon swearing, losing tools into impossible to reach bits of engine bay and getting covered in the nasty waxy sooty crap you find all over a 100000 mile diesel engine. The alternator is off, so is the PAS pump, the aircon compressor is dangling from its pipes. The tensioner however is still in place, laughing at me. It sits behind the large cast bracket that holds the alternator, PAS and AC. This is bolted (behind the pumps) to the block with 3 bolts and an allen headed screw. The screw is at the bottom of a 15cm deep hole in the bracket and I don't have an allen key long enough.

 

Add this to the extreme lack of room to work in a 206 engine bay and the fact that I've been working out (in terms of time and relative difficulty) that a Mondeo clutch might have worked out easier/cheaper in the long run and you can see why I'm a bit cheesed off.

[Negative Creep]

Mouth is still really hurting, and am on painkillers with a big "WARNING: ADDICTIVE" label on the front which are causing some rather odd emotions and side effects. It's still painful to eat anything and I'm supposed to be washing it with warm salt water, which is hard to do without retching. It might sound stupid, but I feel like I've lost a part of myself that I'm never going to get back, and I will feel it on every single thing I eat for the rest of my life.

 

 

Probably just as well I couldn't get this weekend off work, since if I were missing Shitefest for this I'd be really angry.

[M'coli]

The screw is at the bottom of a 15cm deep hole in the bracket and I don't have an allen key long enough

If you haven't managed this yet, can I suggest cutting the bend off the allen key then using the correct socket & extension bar on the allen key to get it done if there's enough clearance for the socket? Failing that, weld a long bolt onto the remains of the allen key?

[Spiny Norman]

On Channel 5s Police Interceptors programme last night there was a poor bloke who'd had his pristine old 6 series belted up the bum by some dozy cow in a Hyundai Accent. All agreed it looked like a write-off.

 

[autofive]

that made me grin, not grump

[Angrydicky]

I've just been watching that, I did feel sorry for the bloke. It's currently on a SORN though, so fingers crossed it's being (or going to be) repaired.

[retrogeezer]

It's not been scrapped as it shows as sorn, hopefully being repaired. It looked like a bloody good buy for the £3k the bloke said he paid for it!

 

And what a w4nker that bloke in the white van was, how he didn't kill anyone is a miracle.

 

The vehicle details for A39 USR are:

Date of Liability 01 12 2012

Date of First Registration 09 03 1984

Year of Manufacture 1984

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 3430cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status SORN Not Due

Vehicle Colour RED

Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

Vehicle Excise Duty rate for vehicle

6 Months Rate £121.00

12 Months Rate £220.00

[cobblers]

I'm sure I've seen that beemer on retro rides in pieces.

 

Edit: Yep!

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... =1#1552832

 

 

[ashmicro]

Beat me to it Cobblers. I knew I recognised it.

[Louise2cv]

I am a miserable old cow, but what is it with people announcing their "plans to get engaged" (to be married)? Surely you are or you aren't? If you've asked the question and agreed to do it, then you are engaged, no?

 

Apparently people are having pre-engagment photos AND pre engagement rings. What?

 

On the plus size, sorry side, Chris Moyles is leaving radio 1, can only hope and prey they haven't got him lined up for some chat show thing on TV.

[Cavcraft]

Fat arse leaving mainstream radio can only ever be fantastic news.

[Louise2cv]

Please please let Steve Wright be next.

[Richard]

Please please let Steve Wright be next.

 

Get yourself a DAB radio and listen to 6 Music, Radio 2 is too close to Alan Partridge (who is rumoured to be based on R2 stand-in Richard Madeley) for comfort.

[cobblers]

On the plus size, sorry side, Chris Moyles is leaving radio 1, can only hope and prey they haven't got him lined up for some chat show thing on TV.

 

I have just received this email from a place I got a few sets of free "studio audience" tickets from a couple of years back.

 

Hello there!

 

As you have a priority note, we thought that you might be interested to know that tickets are now available for a brand new series recording at Pinewood Studios! As with all of our shows, the tickets are FREE!

 

THE LOVE MACHINE with CHRIS MOYLES & STACEY SOLOMON

 

Chris Moyles and Stacey Solomon host The Love Machine; the hilarious dating show!

 

The show tapes at Pinewood Studios, and booking is now open for the new series, so if you would like to join us for an evening (or afternoon) of fun with Chris & Stacey, then apply now!

 

 

You can't bloody write this shit.

[autofive]

On the plus size, sorry side, Chris Moyles is leaving radio 1, can only hope and prey they haven't got him lined up for some chat show thing on TV.

 

I have just received this email from a place I got a few sets of free "studio audience" tickets from a couple of years back.

 

Hello there!

 

As you have a priority note, we thought that you might be interested to know that tickets are now available for a brand new series recording at Pinewood Studios! As with all of our shows, the tickets are FREE!

 

THE LOVE MACHINE with CHRIS MOYLES & STACEY SOLOMON

 

Chris Moyles and Stacey Solomon host The Love Machine; the hilarious dating show!

 

The show tapes at Pinewood Studios, and booking is now open for the new series, so if you would like to join us for an evening (or afternoon) of fun with Chris & Stacey, then apply now!

 

 

You can't bloody write this shit.

 

a slug and a horse presenting blind date - this is why i dont have a TV

[RedSparrow]

I don't get it. Everyone talks about how much they hate Moyles but he is still inexplicably popular and gets loads of work.

Fat cunt.

[Cavcraft]

It's because he's hyped himself up (see S. Wright esq) and now actually believes he's mega popular. I honestly reckon that he thinks if he shouts louder/talks over others and has a system (radio show) where nobody can shoot him down or answer back, he's pretty much got it all.

 

I am vaguely aware of that box of toss dating show as there was a trailer for it on telly a while back. I asked my teenage daughter who this horse faced bint was and apparently she was on Big Brother which means she'll be another talentless slag.

[peter9000uk]

Please please let Steve Wright be next.

 

 

Along with Chris Evans, Vanessa Phelps (sic) and the rest of Radio 2. Steve Wright is still doing the same shit he did on Radio 1 and hndred years ago. I am subjected to Radio 2 when on early shift by the bint on the same shift as me who is 25 years younger than me! Radio 6 FTW or Planet Rock or Kerrang

[John F]

Planet Rock for me, although that bloody Money Supermarket ad can be very annoying at times.

[warren t claim]

Please please let Steve Wright be next.

 

 

Along with Chris Evans, Vanessa Phelps (sic) and the rest of Radio 2. Steve Wright is still doing the same shit he did on Radio 1 and hndred years ago. I am subjected to Radio 2 when on early shift by the bint on the same shift as me who is 25 years younger than me! Radio 6 FTW or Planet Rock or Kerrang

 

I really don't have too much of a problem with Steve Wright. I can't stand Vanessa Felch though.

 

A bonus day for me is having a vehicle with an aux socket so I can listen to internet radio via Android.

[TimothyClaypole]

Radio is on the whole toss.

 

The hippy at work behind me had various stations on all day until he was moved 6 benches away so I have a bit of a rest from the inane drivel and repetition day in day out.

 

I used to listen to Talk Sport before it was Talk Sport, Fisherman's Blues etc, (never been fishing in my life though), and now will have the 80's version of some station on DAB when the "knobjockeys" aren't on it and I think it's maybe BBC Radio 4 Extra or something when I'm trying to get to sleep.

[Mr H Sceptre]

5 Live only for me.

 

Would listen to Radio 6 but don't have a DAB radio & don't listen to radio on my laptop (Except Test Match Special) as I don't have decent speakers.

[scaryoldcortina]

The screw is at the bottom of a 15cm deep hole in the bracket and I don't have an allen key long enough

If you haven't managed this yet, can I suggest cutting the bend off the allen key then using the correct socket & extension bar on the allen key to get it done if there's enough clearance for the socket? Failing that, weld a long bolt onto the remains of the allen key?

 

The hole is too small for anything thicker than an allen key - even the 1/4 drive sockets won't go in. I did solve it though in true autoshite style.... I found an oil pump drive (I think it's out of one of autofive's essex engines) that happens to be almost exactly the same size as a 6mm allen key and long enough to reach. I fitted a 3/8 drive socket end to it (a broken snap-on pozidrive bit donated the socket) and it's finally out and the bracket is removed. I still haven't found a replacement tensioner yet (it's a DW8 1900 diesel, not a HDi, and the bracket/tensioner seems to be unique to the 206).

 

Also, I took the timing belt cover off today - there are bits of string (from the aux belt) wound around the inside of the pulleys, the belt is way too slack and looks knackered too, so the job just got bigger and more expensive.