The grumpy thread

[willswitchengage]

Recently bought what was listed as ceramic bullet fuses for the Princess to replace the poor quality plastic ones that had melted. Fuses arrived and not only was it about three times the amount I'd bought and didn't contain the glass fuse (which I don't need, incidentally) in the listing, they were also all plastic. I'm not seeking a refund because it's a ball ache but I'm annoyed that they're not ceramic bodied fuses. So far so good with them, no melty-melty like the last lot I got, but we shall see. Confirmed with the buyer that what they sent out is the only fuse set they send out, so why list it as something it's not? Very odd. Negative feedback I think.

 

Happened to me on ebay a few times, mainly with light bulbs. Plastic for glass, halogen then halogen in a packet saying "LED" (Chinese fail), oh and a desktop lamp that bore no resemblance to the advertised image. The seller of the latter had been removed before I could even offer him feedback

[Negative Creep]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... ridge.html

 

RIP Tony Scott

[vulgalour]

Somebody has borrowed my screwdriver from my tool kit and somebody has lost it. That somebody is not me. The somebody it is can't remember what they did with it.

[RedSparrow]

METRO 1300 BUTCHERY MUST STOP NAO.

I know Im always on about this but it's going on at an alarming rate now. I think if I won the lottery I would be the person saving cars from bangering and engine rape. Something we'd all love to do.

Could make a museum. Except it would be all metros and Farinas, so a bit specialised.

Might need a re-think.

[Guest]

METRO 1300 BUTCHERY MUST STOP NAO.

I know Im always on about this but it's going on at an alarming rate now. I think if I won the lottery I would be the person saving cars from bangering and engine rape. Something we'd all love to do.

Could make a museum. Except it would be all metros and Farinas, so a bit specialised.

Might need a re-think.

 

I will co fund with my lottery millions* to include an Isuzu Piazza and Volvo 400 series Turbo section. It would be like Stondon with leaking tiles and a depressing gift shop. BUT NO ENGINE BUMMING WOULD OCCUR.

[Albert Ross]

I would help by recovering engineless Allagros and thus bestuffed Minis and removing drivetrain shizzle, then crushing the Minis.

[Cavcraft]

That really would be great fun.

I'd have some of that and also still live the dream by buying the rarest/most expensive dove tail/sparrow arse/pigeon shit Golf Mk1 and entering it into a banger rally at a VW show.

[RedSparrow]

These are all good ideas gents. Would it be appropriate to start a thread on this, a hypothetical autoshite communal shite project, or will it be called a shit idea for a thread?

[Albert Ross]

Well I can't be arsed. You do it.............

[George-Roper]

HI peeps and peepesses been away for a while but popped back for this. Did anyone know the Triumph 1300 that caused a fuss here was dead

What a real shame if the owners still on here can you tell us what happened as I had hoped it would live.

 

Bye Bye for now Freddie B.

[triumph1300]

It would've lived if I hadn't found all the bodges on the car. From the outside it looked good, until I prodded around...

The welding the previous owner done to put the car through an MOT was interesting to say the least, I could peel it away as the rot wasn't cut out underneath it. Both sills needed replacing, both inner wings, both front wings, both rear aches were full of filler and dented badly, it explains why the car was shiny when i got it, it had a blow over but with bad prepwork and rust spots where showing all over (hence why i treated them and matt blacked it)

Needless to say, im fucking gutted, so Im not in the mood for peoples comments right now.

The reason it was broken is because there was no way I could pay someone to do it, as i'm skint. So i broke it to save other cars and allow me to buy another and insure it. This Triumph has made me lose heart right now in owning a classic, especially owning one as your only car, as its easy to hide bodges.

[Guest]

Just seen those pics on facebook - its a shame but you gotta do whats best for yourself in the end.

[dollywobbler]

Oh 'eck. This is going to get messy...

[triumph1300]

Oh 'eck. This is going to get messy...

 

Yep, and I dont care. I got a life to live, no point getting wound up by morons on the tinterwebz.

 

Like he said above, I genuinely had no choice. I could've sold it as it is, and made what? £350 tops, what could i buy and insure for that? Nothing

Instead my running total is £985 from breaking it and I still have another couple of hundreds worth of parts to shift, aswell as all the stuff i'm giving away for free to help out others.

[RedSparrow]

Just sat here with the reply window open for a few minutes wondering what to say. I feel I've been a bit mean in the past so I'll leave it for now.

[triumph1300]

Just sat here with the reply window open for a few minutes wondering what to say. I feel I've been a bit mean in the past so I'll leave it for now.

 

I expect something in a few minutes then

[sporty-shite]

I could've sold it as it is, and made what? £350 tops...

 

Instead my running total is £985 from breaking it and I still have another couple of hundreds worth of parts to shift, aswell as all the stuff i'm giving away for free to help out others.

 

To be fair, with figures like that, all credit to you for trying to fix it in the first place. Could have just broken it as soon as you found a few bodges, and took the cash.

 

Still a pity to see it go, but they don't all last forever, do they?

[Cavcraft]

Not knocking you chief, but if you can tell me how to get £985 from breaking a Triumph 1300 I'll buy very available 'spares or repairs' one I see.

[triumph1300]

Not knocking you chief, but if you can tell me how to get £985 from breaking a Triumph 1300 I'll buy very available 'spares or repairs' one I see.

 

I had some other spares too that came with the car, quick rundown:

 

Engine and box, hubs, driveshafts, few odds and ends £350

 

Exhaust, doors, boot and bonnet, £190

 

Spare gearbox £35

 

Headlights and sidelight units £80

 

Carb £40

 

Exhaust manifold £50

 

Plastic cowl round steering wheel and 1 piece of rear chrome £20

 

Lower steering column coupling £25

 

NOS lower ball joint £27

 

NOS ball joint rebuild kits, NOS track rod end and 3 ratty sprint wheels £45

 

NOS front wing £50

 

Rear lights £20

 

etc etc and various little bits i've sold. Bored typing now

[pompei]

I'm sorry to hear that - you really liked that car.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Fair play dude. Glad you managed to recoup a bit of cash......shame you couldn't keep it on the road but, as they say, you win some............

 

 

Hopefully, when you are a bit more flush, you'll get another nice old motor on the road.

[triumph1300]

I do intend to, but now I have a Volvo 740 estate, sensible, reliable, not rot prone. Its very tidy and very shiny, I even polished it today.

When money allows it, I will have another classic I think, but as a toy, so it doesn't matter when it needs repairing. Although we still have a 1986 mini on the drive that needs sorting out for when my fiance passes her test, so may just have that as my "bit of old", I do really miss the Triumph though, it is actually one of the only cars I actually got a bit upset over getting rid of it.

[sporty-shite]

now I have a Volvo 740 estate,

 

Come on then. Pics! AS dream car, that!

[triumph1300]

 

 

 

[Lankytim]

That's just like Shep Shepherds one, he'l be perving all over that in no time!

[trigger]

"Step away from the Matt black rattle can"

[whitevanman]

aye....

[triumph1300]

I can safely say I would never ever matt black a car with a nice paint job..hence why I polished it earlier. Will detail the whole car soon.

[ashmicro]

Pity about the Triumph, but you can't win them all. I had to do the same to a mark 1 Escort that turned out to be rotten, but looked OK.

 

NICE Volvo, btw, looks very well indeed.

[triumph1300]

Thank you. It's definitely the perfect motor for ferrying my 3 year old around in. Infact, when I stripped the triumph down it made me very wary of using one as a daily again with a child. No protection at all.