The grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Damn, Sparrow, get educated. Halloween is very important to Americans, it celebrates their independence from the ghosts that threw their tea into Pearl Harbour on the 4th of July.

 

Royal Fail/Parcelfarce will definitely send it, and it'll most likely be quite cheap, too. Just make sure it's packed properly and insured.

Interparcel had no problem, I was just bemused Ukraine wasn't even on the list. Only a tenner less than North Korea though.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Damn, Sparrow, get educated. Halloween is very important to Americans, it celebrates their independence from the ghosts that threw their tea into Pearl Harbour on the 4th of July.

 

Royal Fail/Parcelfarce will definitely send it, and it'll most likely be quite cheap, too. Just make sure it's packed properly and insured.

Interparcel had no problem, I was just bemused Ukraine wasn't even on the list. Only a tenner less than North Korea though.

[TimothyClaypole]

Manage to scuff a neighbours Astra rear quarter with my van. Arse.

 

Finally caught them at home and the woman said she'd not even seen it and didn't even know about it until her mum noticed it and she thought it had happened at Morrisons.

 

I could have kept quiet but if someone bumped my van/car I'd be pissed off and I'm not the sort to just drive past it everyday and not have it on my mind.

[TimothyClaypole]

Manage to scuff a neighbours Astra rear quarter with my van. Arse.

 

Finally caught them at home and the woman said she'd not even seen it and didn't even know about it until her mum noticed it and she thought it had happened at Morrisons.

 

I could have kept quiet but if someone bumped my van/car I'd be pissed off and I'm not the sort to just drive past it everyday and not have it on my mind.

[Lord Sterling]

Took Ma_Sterling up to Liverpool on Sunday. Of course, packing the TV I seemed to have managed to forget to pack the RF cable and Scart lead for the Freeview box, being a Sunday and around 4pm, none of the local shop had any kind of leads so I had to leave it up to Ma. She has since managed to purchase herself the right cables (after buying the wrong one) but even though she has got them and connected them up, the TV/Freeview box still wont pick up a signal. I thought these bloody new flatscreen TVs took all the hard work out of tuning into channels?

 

I dont fancy another run up to Liverpool just to tune a TV. The Rover performed faultlessly on the run there and back and was comfortable, but the drive up there on a more regular basis just seems a little daunting at the moment. Plus its almost drank its way through £80 worth of juice since Friday, I can be arsed filling it up again, so the K11 will be on working duties this week.

[Lord Sterling]

Took Ma_Sterling up to Liverpool on Sunday. Of course, packing the TV I seemed to have managed to forget to pack the RF cable and Scart lead for the Freeview box, being a Sunday and around 4pm, none of the local shop had any kind of leads so I had to leave it up to Ma. She has since managed to purchase herself the right cables (after buying the wrong one) but even though she has got them and connected them up, the TV/Freeview box still wont pick up a signal. I thought these bloody new flatscreen TVs took all the hard work out of tuning into channels?

 

I dont fancy another run up to Liverpool just to tune a TV. The Rover performed faultlessly on the run there and back and was comfortable, but the drive up there on a more regular basis just seems a little daunting at the moment. Plus its almost drank its way through £80 worth of juice since Friday, I can be arsed filling it up again, so the K11 will be on working duties this week.

[jakebullet]

The local idiot boy who matt blacked a perfectly good metro now has a shagged out looking barry xr2i and for sale on the metro window. He needs dog shit thru the letterbox.

 

[jakebullet]

The local idiot boy who matt blacked a perfectly good metro now has a shagged out looking barry xr2i and for sale on the metro window. He needs dog shit thru the letterbox.

 

[Pete-M]

I dont fancy another run up to Liverpool just to tune a TV.

 

Make sure Ma Sterling chooses the right freeview channels. The ones I normally get when I first tune in a freeview box tend to be Welsh, then it's a case of fiddling about to get the English ones instead.

[Pete-M]

I dont fancy another run up to Liverpool just to tune a TV.

 

Make sure Ma Sterling chooses the right freeview channels. The ones I normally get when I first tune in a freeview box tend to be Welsh, then it's a case of fiddling about to get the English ones instead.

[cobblers]

That fiesta is giving me nice "it's still 2002" feelings, Lights, plates, tints, exhaust and wheels are all retro now, it's just the shopping list down the wing spoiling it.

[cobblers]

That fiesta is giving me nice "it's still 2002" feelings, Lights, plates, tints, exhaust and wheels are all retro now, it's just the shopping list down the wing spoiling it.

[Lord Sterling]

The local idiot boy who matt blacked a perfectly good metro....

 

Jake, your not from around Birmingham are you? There is a matt Black Metro exactly the same as the one in your pic going around my area, it has a huge exhaust and is often racing around the streets.

I dont fancy another run up to Liverpool just to tune a TV.

 

Make sure Ma Sterling chooses the right freeview channels. The ones I normally get when I first tune in a freeview box tend to be Welsh, then it's a case of fiddling about to get the English ones instead.

 

Cheers Pete. If the manager of her local complex cant sort it out, then I'll have to. I suppose it'll be an excuse to take a peek at Brookie Close which has been completed and sold onto new owners, lucky sods.

[Lord Sterling]

The local idiot boy who matt blacked a perfectly good metro....

 

Jake, your not from around Birmingham are you? There is a matt Black Metro exactly the same as the one in your pic going around my area, it has a huge exhaust and is often racing around the streets.

I dont fancy another run up to Liverpool just to tune a TV.

 

Make sure Ma Sterling chooses the right freeview channels. The ones I normally get when I first tune in a freeview box tend to be Welsh, then it's a case of fiddling about to get the English ones instead.

 

Cheers Pete. If the manager of her local complex cant sort it out, then I'll have to. I suppose it'll be an excuse to take a peek at Brookie Close which has been completed and sold onto new owners, lucky sods.

[Pete-M]

It's also about a mile from me.... and a bit of a mess.

[Pete-M]

It's also about a mile from me.... and a bit of a mess.

[Guest]

I am gutted and sort of annoyed - and really tired, so don't blame me for sloppy syntax.

 

SCTSH_ANDY had booked the Saab in for an MOT today, which meant after it being in the unit for EIGHT BLOODY MONTHS while he decided to fix everything that was wrong with it, it was about to leave and free up the considerable amount of space it had taken up, along with all of its spares and Andy's shit.

 

He gave it one final clean, put it into reverse.............

 

.......and it wouldn't go in reverse without grinding and making horrendous banging noises.

The clutch is stuck on its splines and won't release. Before you all chime in with 'fucking idiot's fitted it wrong' - he hasn't. He knows those engines \ gearboxes backwards, and is more than capable of fitting a new clutch. He's been done - the clutch is defective. Ironically the original clutch had plenty of life left in it, he just wanted to get a new one in to save time in the long run.

 

This has been an ongoing saga for frigging ages now. Said 9000 has taken up all of the bloody space in the unit along with a pile of other crap he's piled up for winter to roast in the burner our neighbours across the way are welding up and fitting a flue to. Then there's the matter of all Andy's shit being outside, including two other 9000s and a 405 LM............and I get shouted at by biscunt man and the farmer for daring to have ONE car on the premises. Inside the stuff I have in there could fit on two shelving racks. Somehow I am paying a three figure sum a month to keep the place, my 305 is still outside and I have to find space for two others now given that the Wirral bolt hole has gone down the swanny.

 

Now I'm sure this wasn't Andy's intention to tie the unit up like this, but the Saab being there constantly has really strained my patience along with all the other shit I take from the other idiots who use the space on the farm. I was really looking forward to seeing the back of it so we could get the space back on an even keel (not that he knows about the C****n ** yet - that's going to Stockport no matter what and I couldn't give a fuck who objects, because I'll stamp on their heads) but that looks that ain't gonna happen for a little while now because the gearbox and clutch have to come out of the 9000 for the third time - and that's if the input shafts haven't been stripped by the clutch when it welded itself to the flywheel.

 

Despite the continued frustration about that unit and the space involved, and the problems involved with getting the hell out of the Wirral, I'm still fucking gutted for SCTSH. That car has had everything thrown at it and the ungrateful piece of shit knackers its clutch the day before he tries to MOT it.

 

The words we're gonna have about the space and the C*****n are now gonna be even worse.

 

Fuck.

[Guest]

I am gutted and sort of annoyed - and really tired, so don't blame me for sloppy syntax.

 

SCTSH_ANDY had booked the Saab in for an MOT today, which meant after it being in the unit for EIGHT BLOODY MONTHS while he decided to fix everything that was wrong with it, it was about to leave and free up the considerable amount of space it had taken up, along with all of its spares and Andy's shit.

 

He gave it one final clean, put it into reverse.............

 

.......and it wouldn't go in reverse without grinding and making horrendous banging noises.

The clutch is stuck on its splines and won't release. Before you all chime in with 'fucking idiot's fitted it wrong' - he hasn't. He knows those engines \ gearboxes backwards, and is more than capable of fitting a new clutch. He's been done - the clutch is defective. Ironically the original clutch had plenty of life left in it, he just wanted to get a new one in to save time in the long run.

 

This has been an ongoing saga for frigging ages now. Said 9000 has taken up all of the bloody space in the unit along with a pile of other crap he's piled up for winter to roast in the burner our neighbours across the way are welding up and fitting a flue to. Then there's the matter of all Andy's shit being outside, including two other 9000s and a 405 LM............and I get shouted at by biscunt man and the farmer for daring to have ONE car on the premises. Inside the stuff I have in there could fit on two shelving racks. Somehow I am paying a three figure sum a month to keep the place, my 305 is still outside and I have to find space for two others now given that the Wirral bolt hole has gone down the swanny.

 

Now I'm sure this wasn't Andy's intention to tie the unit up like this, but the Saab being there constantly has really strained my patience along with all the other shit I take from the other idiots who use the space on the farm. I was really looking forward to seeing the back of it so we could get the space back on an even keel (not that he knows about the C****n ** yet - that's going to Stockport no matter what and I couldn't give a fuck who objects, because I'll stamp on their heads) but that looks that ain't gonna happen for a little while now because the gearbox and clutch have to come out of the 9000 for the third time - and that's if the input shafts haven't been stripped by the clutch when it welded itself to the flywheel.

 

Despite the continued frustration about that unit and the space involved, and the problems involved with getting the hell out of the Wirral, I'm still fucking gutted for SCTSH. That car has had everything thrown at it and the ungrateful piece of shit knackers its clutch the day before he tries to MOT it.

 

The words we're gonna have about the space and the C*****n are now gonna be even worse.

 

Fuck.

[richardthestag]

In other news, 12 months of trying to sell out house and we have finally taken it off the market. The estate agent we've used for the last 6 months insisted we reduce the price to an unacceptable level, so we eventually took it off the market and have been hit with a £240 cancellation fee, that's on top of the £60 for putting it on the market to start with! Bastards!

 

Admittedly it was near on 20 years ago but estate agents pulled the same stunt on my when not trying to sell my house. I suspected that they were not marketing it at all and got brother, mates etc to call them with specifics such as 2 bed, quiet street, river blah blah and they never once offered my property details. cnuts!!!

 

So I spoke to the estate agent cretin in the shiniest suit who handed me his business card, it was this that I waved in his face and suggested that a small claims court summons would be on his desk within days to claim for reimbursement of all the fees plus a small claim to cover all the pointless fuckwittery that they had caused me. "Oh please take a seat sir", bloke with an even shiner suit appears from back office and agrees to waive all fees and penalties even though I had signed the contract at the start of the sale. I pointed out that I had kept to my side of the contract and that they had not. but got away from them..

 

https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money/overview

 

maybe

[richardthestag]

In other news, 12 months of trying to sell out house and we have finally taken it off the market. The estate agent we've used for the last 6 months insisted we reduce the price to an unacceptable level, so we eventually took it off the market and have been hit with a £240 cancellation fee, that's on top of the £60 for putting it on the market to start with! Bastards!

 

Admittedly it was near on 20 years ago but estate agents pulled the same stunt on my when not trying to sell my house. I suspected that they were not marketing it at all and got brother, mates etc to call them with specifics such as 2 bed, quiet street, river blah blah and they never once offered my property details. cnuts!!!

 

So I spoke to the estate agent cretin in the shiniest suit who handed me his business card, it was this that I waved in his face and suggested that a small claims court summons would be on his desk within days to claim for reimbursement of all the fees plus a small claim to cover all the pointless fuckwittery that they had caused me. "Oh please take a seat sir", bloke with an even shiner suit appears from back office and agrees to waive all fees and penalties even though I had signed the contract at the start of the sale. I pointed out that I had kept to my side of the contract and that they had not. but got away from them..

 

https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money/overview

 

maybe

[jakebullet]

 

Jake, your not from around Birmingham are you? There is a matt Black Metro exactly the same as the one in your pic going around my area, it has a huge exhaust and is often racing around the streets.

 

Nope, this ones in 'sunny' Barnsley. Must be the latest trend with those original crazy kids.

[jakebullet]

 

Jake, your not from around Birmingham are you? There is a matt Black Metro exactly the same as the one in your pic going around my area, it has a huge exhaust and is often racing around the streets.

 

Nope, this ones in 'sunny' Barnsley. Must be the latest trend with those original crazy kids.

[trigger]

WTF has happened to ebay now?, Not only are the photos harder to view and there's now video adverts playing when your trying to view a listing, I'm trying to look at a Saab advert with some hot brunette bird having her hair played with along with period pain adverts which is putting me off.

[trigger]

WTF has happened to ebay now?, Not only are the photos harder to view and there's now video adverts playing when your trying to view a listing, I'm trying to look at a Saab advert with some hot brunette bird having her hair played with along with period pain adverts which is putting me off.

[Spiny Norman]

It's undergoing yet another round of 'improvements'.....

 

My own grump today is that after trying and failing to sell my really nice Merc E class for weeks with nothing more than the usual 'HI M8 WILL U TAK 500 2MORO' messages from mongs, I've decided to keep it and try and sell my Saab, which I'd far rather keep, instead.

Less than 24 hours on Car & Classic and I've had 4 genuine responses from real people asking sensible questions about it. Why did nobody want my Merc, which is in better nick and cheaper to boot?*

* Rhetorical question, it's a 3.2 litre petrol motor (although I average 25mpg), and the unloved W210 shape (but not rusty) so it's going to be a slog to shift on.

[Spiny Norman]

It's undergoing yet another round of 'improvements'.....

 

My own grump today is that after trying and failing to sell my really nice Merc E class for weeks with nothing more than the usual 'HI M8 WILL U TAK 500 2MORO' messages from mongs, I've decided to keep it and try and sell my Saab, which I'd far rather keep, instead.

Less than 24 hours on Car & Classic and I've had 4 genuine responses from real people asking sensible questions about it. Why did nobody want my Merc, which is in better nick and cheaper to boot?*

* Rhetorical question, it's a 3.2 litre petrol motor (although I average 25mpg), and the unloved W210 shape (but not rusty) so it's going to be a slog to shift on.

[Cavcraft]

Had to Google 'W210' as don't know one Merc 'technical name/number' from another. Sadly these had a pretty dire reputation which will put some people off and there is 100% definately some sort of weird 'twilight zone' period that all mercs of a certain age go through. I honestly don't know why, but they get to a certain age and it would be easier to sell sand to the Arabs. It has to be said that sadly this trend continues for quite a few years before they suddenly start to be recognised a bit and prices gradually increase. This probably leads to so many being fucked off to Africa as they're hard to shift here.

 

Bit daft really as they're a half decent car and that 3.2 lump is an absolute cracker.

[Cavcraft]

Had to Google 'W210' as don't know one Merc 'technical name/number' from another. Sadly these had a pretty dire reputation which will put some people off and there is 100% definately some sort of weird 'twilight zone' period that all mercs of a certain age go through. I honestly don't know why, but they get to a certain age and it would be easier to sell sand to the Arabs. It has to be said that sadly this trend continues for quite a few years before they suddenly start to be recognised a bit and prices gradually increase. This probably leads to so many being fucked off to Africa as they're hard to shift here.

 

Bit daft really as they're a half decent car and that 3.2 lump is an absolute cracker.

[Spiny Norman]

And I've just had the bloke I've been emailing about the Saab on the phone, he sounds really keen. Bugger...

Does anyone else do this, advertise a car for sale then when it looks like it might go, start to think of all sorts of reasons not to get rid of it?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yo wat, are you sure its not just a clutch hydraulics problem? I struggle to imagine some fundamental probelm with a clutch, that you could not see while you were fitting it, except maybe putting the disc in back to front. Or maybe its just stuck to the flywheel after sitting for so long, if so it will pop free with some minor abuse.