The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Absolutely.

 

This blokes sounds like a right gobshite. Maybe your RAF career could be spent practising bombing him?

[garbaldy]

And here's me thinking my boss was a cunt for forgeting my bonus

I bet you are a bit woried about boss turning up at your door seing as he's already done so, sounds like a right twat

[SambaS]

Yeah I am, I knew a few people who worked for him in the past and they were a bit more fighty than I am. All mouth I was told.... then he tried to kick my door in.

 

Anyways, most of my cars move tomorrow up to Krujoe's, but I reckon the ones I have in the carpark will be targeted in some way.. watch this space.

 

He's stupid as he looks sending written threats though.

 

EDIT: I will never forget being screamed at on the side of the M74 when the headgasket failed on the Discovery, and having to push 1. a land Rover Discovery with 2. a trailer with 3. a Renault Clio Sport on the back down the hard shoulder, believe you me that was hard! he had a cartilage problem so couldn't help. (there was a flat bit then a downhill, there was some method in the madness that was that day)

[SambaS]

[autofive]

he sounds like a real knob

 

i usually find people who threaten, and scream and shout, dont do anything, they just want to intimidate and/or provoke you into something rash.

 

It's the quiet brooding ones you have to watch

 

console yourself with this fact: No-one is bulletproof

[Guest]

I have an Ipod, which is an ok bit of kit - can you recommend another program that'll work with it?

 

SharePod is useful. Works well with Windows 7 and turns the iPod into what it should have been the first place - a music player with a drag and drop interface when you plug it into your machine.

 

For my next grump - driving. I wish people would learn that sticking your indicator on seconds before pulling a ridiculous move does not make it right. It's a request, not a demand. Having nearly been smashed into on the Princess Parkway because a hi vis wearing mong decided not to go down the exit ramp for Northern Moor, he's damn lucky no-one was in lane 2. I had to swerve violently doing about 40.

 

I get past him and give him the universal symbol of displeasure and hammer it away from . Fiesta cumfart then flips, and catches up to me near J7 of the M60 (yes, it took him that long), undertaking all in sight so he could scream abuse and try some hilarious brake testing antics. No mate, you're an utter prick, you nearly slammed into me and caused a massive accident. You could have gone down the on ramp and then up it again, instead of swinging violently back into my lane and whacking your indicator on as an after thought.

 

PS: If you can't keep pace with a diesel C4, you're fucking hopeless and deserve to end up in the Mersey. Take that fucking POS Fiesta with you, you utter bell-end.

[Spiny Norman]

Nothing I have is getting anywhere near one of the screws on the Saab's voltage regulator.

I even ordered a new gizmo which I thought would get in between the alternator and oil filter pipework but no luck.

With my limited skills & facilities it looks like it'll be a garage job for the sake of a £10 part, the alternator probably has to come off, which means removing the aircon pump and all the associated gubbins......

 

I knew the MOT had gone too smoothly.....

[Negative Creep]

Nothing I have is getting anywhere near one of the screws on the Saab's voltage regulator.

I even ordered a new gizmo which I thought would get in between the alternator and oil filter pipework but no luck.

With my limited skills & facilities it looks like it'll be a garage job for the sake of a £10 part, the alternator probably has to come off, which means removing the aircon pump and all the associated gubbins......

 

I knew the MOT had gone too smoothly.....

 

 

On that subject....Corolla's alternator has packed up. Light came on the moment I started the car, and I got home just as the indicators were dimming to nothing. Now the problem is I have to get to work tomorrow, and source one asap

[dollywobbler]

With a sudden failure like that, I'd be grabbing a torch and heading out to look for a loose wire that shouldn't be loose. In my many years of motoring, I've never had an alternator suddenly fail. Is the drive belt actually there?!

[RedSparrow]

SharePod is useful. Works well with Windows 7 and turns the iPod into what it should have been the first place - a music player with a drag and drop interface when you plug it into your machine.

 

Cheers, I'll give it a whirl.

[Ben_L]

Fucking Wanky road works workers...

 

Doing 60mph down road, approach road works with green light, slow to around 45-50 and press on. Emerging from road works, flat bed truck. Brake, skid for what felt like about 20 minutes stop just shy of it's trailer then get the bird thrown out the window at me for sounding my horn vigarously throughout the whole event.

 

What the fuck happened to Mirror, Signal THEN Manouvere???

[freebird]

Fucking Wanky road works workers...

 

Doing 60mph down road, approach road works with green light, slow to around 45-50 and press on. Emerging from road works, flat bed truck. Brake, skid for what felt like about 20 minutes stop just shy of it's trailer then get the bid thrown out the window at me for sounding my horn vigarously throughout the whole event.

 

What the fuck happened to Mirror, Signal THEN Manouvere???

Possibly the same thing that happened to not going through road works at something like warp factor 10.

Ok, so they should have looked but, FFS, do you REALLY think it was safe to drive through traffic controlled roadworks at 45-50 mph?!?!?

I sometimes have to work in carriageway boxes that have traffic control, the guys that put them up have balls of steel ( they need to have) and the amount of utter wankers that go through them like they are going through some sort of fucking chicane at Silverstone is a joke.

Dont you know that workers have died working in traffic controlled environments?

[Negative Creep]

With a sudden failure like that, I'd be grabbing a torch and heading out to look for a loose wire that shouldn't be loose. In my many years of motoring, I've never had an alternator suddenly fail. Is the drive belt actually there?!

 

 

Drive belt is there and tight. If you give it a good rev (although without a rev counter I can't say how much) the light goes off, so that would point towards an alternator/regulator fault for me?

[dollywobbler]

Ah, in that case, just drive to work like a pensioner. Keep the revs up. Actually, maybe that explains it. Maybe it's not hopeless clutch control at all but experience in how to keep a low-charging alternator pumping out enough juice to keep the electrics going. We've busted a myth. You could try and replace the brushes. I'm yet to do this, but I do at least know how to get the brushes out of the 2CV's alternator. No idea where I'd buy some more though...

[michiel]

Picked up a new Transit (dealer demo) for work to use this weekend - heated seats, 1758.4 buttons and switches, rear view camera with a mini monitor in the otherwise useless interior mirror and lane departure warning in a van

 

Couldn't work out why it wouldn't go faster than 115 km/h in 6th, then found the Eco switch that activates a limiter... OFF!

 

Last Transit I drove was a 1991 model, non-turbo non-pas, from the day I got my licence. So much more fun.

[Spiny Norman]

What the fuck happened to Mirror, Signal THEN Manouvere???

 

Had a similar experience tonight.

Barrelling along the Clydeside expressway (2 lanes, theoretically a 50 limit.. ) when fanny-baws in an S plate Chrysler Voyager full of what he'd no doubt claim are his most cherished possessions doing about 30 up the slip road decides to join the carriageway right in front of me.

 

One blink of the indicator and out he came, about 100 feet ahead of me, doing less than half my speed.

There was a car right alongside me so I had nowhere to go, so all I could do was the time honoured triumvirate of brakes, horn and main beams....

 

You don't expect perfection but some people's driving skills really are substandard....

[Cavcraft]

Anyone who pulls out onto a road in a hurry, then does 20mph or so under the speed limit should be dragged out of their cars and twatted about quite a bit.

[vulgalour]

Much like the people that repeatedly pull out in front of me who I'm sure are thinking "Oh it's an old car, it can't possibly be going more than 10mph". I can think of no other reason (beyond them being twats, but that's a given) for them doing it. Shame I'm one of those rational types else I'd put my foot down and ram into them, but I value my insurance policy and my legs.

[Ben_L]

Much like the people that repeatedly pull out in front of me who I'm sure are thinking "Oh it's an old car, it can't possibly be going more than 10mph". I can think of no other reason (beyond them being twats, but that's a given) for them doing it. Shame I'm one of those rational types else I'd put my foot down and ram into them, but I value my insurance policy and my legs.

 

The old car thing is a joke... More than regularly here in Cambs, you'll get some old dot in an Audi A6 Quatrro Twin Turbo V12 with optional shot glasses and a portrait of Henry VIII on the parcel shelf, driving at 30% less than the limit, yet 75-80 on the M11 is completely unacceptable to the similarly specced' repmobile that's inevitably up your arse flashing it's headlights at you.

 

I pay road tax too so they can all get fucked in my opinion. And that Twatting lorry driver from earlier too...

[wuvvum]

It's astonishing how many dawdling VAG drivers suddenly find the accelerator pedal when my battered old Rover 400 comes hurtling past them in a cloud of black smoke.

[Spiny Norman]

Much like the people that repeatedly pull out in front of me who I'm sure are thinking "Oh it's an old car, it can't possibly be going more than 10mph". I can think of no other reason (beyond them being twats, but that's a given) for them doing it.

 

True, this guy was just a dim-witted arse though, he'd have pulled out in front of whatever happened to be there because he didn't look. My old E class is actually 2 years older than his shitty sprog-carrier but it's clean and fairly modern looking so I don't get the 'old car - let's be a prick' reaction too often.

And if I do, it may well be an old car, but it's an 230bhp old car so I can dismiss most dicks I encounter....

[warren t claim]

I don't own a 928. Prices seem to be creeping up as well.

[skattrd]

I now appear to have lost the "edit" button on here as well .... arse.

[Cavcraft]

While you're waiting for it to return, Chris, can you bang a thread up about your new car? It's ace and the world (of Autoshite) need to see it!

[skattrd]

I've been meaning to do a collection thread for the little car Billy, but was need to take a couple of snaps that I forgot to take on Saturday.

[Negative Creep]

That will be £160 to supply and fit an alternator then. Could order one an do it myself, but as a daily driver I don't have time to faff around or risk running out of electrcity

[Cavcraft]

To the dickhead behind me in a silver 3 series BMW this morning: when you're driving about 0.5mm from my rear bumper in a 30mph zone on a housing estate, what is going to happen when you swerve all over the road behind me to show you want to get past?

1) I race up to whatever speed suits you.

2) I pull over to let you past as you're obviously FAR more important than me.

3) I slow down from 29mph to 20mph and laugh at you.

 

Option three for me, thanks.

[vulgalour]

If it's one and a half hours after a person said they were going to turn up to collect and pay for a car, chances are they're not turning up, right? We shall see, but I'm not hopeful.

[Negative Creep]

And now I find the local scrappy may well have a matching one alternator

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If it's one and a half hours after a person said they were going to turn up to collect and pay for a car, chances are they're not turning up, right? We shall see, but I'm not hopeful.

 

Is he answering his phone? If not, he's welched out but is too spineless to tell you.