The grumpy thread

[trigger]

Photobucket is shite hence why I got a Flickr account instead.

[beko1987]

Fucking brake cylinders.

 

I'd had the ZX apart to look at the handbrake cable today, in view of the upcoming not...

 

Handbrake cable on the passenger side has snapped the outer sheath, which explains why that's crap. Sanded down the lip on the drum, put it all back together. Get ready for a test drive...

 

Brake pedal to the floor... Bollocks.

 

Back to the drive, wheel covered in brake fluid.

 

Stripped the whole thing off again, take the pistons out and one of the seals have gone all plasticky and had a hole blown in.

 

Bollocks. Quick call to all parts and a mate for a lift. £20 later, get home, and buggar, the brake pipe won't undo.

 

Muiller the but with mole grips until it undoes, and bollocks, its the wrong one.

 

Swap pistons and seals around and it still fucks out fluid.

 

Eco and all parts now closed until Monday, so got to drive the spazzwagon meriva yo work, buy the right one then fit it on my day off on weds.

 

Anyone wanna swap a zx for something else? Bored of it tonight!

[SambaS]

Ahh that's good news. I'm pissed off they took it to court, incuring me costs in the process when a simple letter to me would have prompted payment. I wonder if I could do a few weeks jail time and keep the £143 it has now become

[Albert Ross]

Beko, there's more than two types, certainly Bendix and Girling, but suited to diffrent drum diameters and widths too. Might be worth having one of the old ones in your hand prior to offering up the coinage.

[beko1987]

At that time the brake hose hadn't been removed, but I should have done that.

 

Ordered the right (hopefully) one now, will take the wrong one back next saturday

[Station]

Photobucket is shite hence why I got a Flickr account instead.

 

It went shite in abut 2007 when they turned it into a social networking photo sharing bollocks shite, instead of just photo storage. I always cringe to myself when people suggest it. Imgur is 1,000,000 times better for simple picture storage, it doesn't even need a log in, but Flickr is good for having a library, etc.

[freebird]

If we do get new mod's I hope he/she/they nuke the banger thread.

Has this place EVER had mods?

[simmo]

Didn't Norm the yank capri nut have his ass shut down by the mods?

[whitevanman]

/\/yup...and +3 for Billys post

[freebird]

The more "eccentric" the forum the more narrow minded the thought.

That does not apply to all.

[SambaS]

I think we should put an end to the argument once and for all, done through the medium of dance

[Mr Lobster]

+ 10000000 to Billys idea.

 

You know how some forums censor certain swear words, can Autoshite have the following censored - banger, rigger boots, hi-viz, oval and one or two others

 

Anyway,

 

WHY IS IT ALWAYS A GOLF. I actually don't mind Golfs but why is it that everytime in the last few days I have been cut up or had some fucking hatstand trying to force their way past me they are driving a Golf. Is there something about Golfs that regardless of age the people who drive them morph into some sort of wide eyed teeth grinding moron who appears to have been infected with a dose of Rage immediately before entering the drivers seat.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I used Botophucket for years. Then they improved it, and thus now I use Image Shack instead.

[RedSparrow]

Man there are some morons on this site.

[Mr Lobster]

^ Yup, the occasional passing glance by one of The Management would be appreciated.

[George-Roper]

^ Yup, the occasional passing glance by one of The Management would be appreciated.

 

 

Used to be good on here but its declined in the last year or so. I hardly bother these days

[freebird]

^ Yup, the occasional passing glance by one of The Management would be appreciated.

 

 

Used to be good on here but its declined in the last year or so. I hardly bother these days

In all fairness, 373 posts in nearly two and a half years suggests that you have never overly bothered in the first place.

[Lord Sterling]

Yo lads, lets just calm it down a bit please.

[Ben_L]

^ Yup, the occasional passing glance by one of The Management would be appreciated.

 

 

Used to be good on here but its declined in the last year or so. I hardly bother these days

In all fairness, 373 posts in nearly two and a half years suggests that you have never overly bothered in the first place.

 

 

You never know, some of those 373 posts over those two years may* have been interesting/factual/funny/witty/worth reading/contain genuine shite.

 

Compared to the dozen in the last week that I can recall that have been none of the above.

[freebird]

Used to be good on here but its declined in the last year or so. I hardly bother these days

In all fairness, 373 posts in nearly two and a half years suggests that you have never overly bothered in the first place.

 

You never know, some of those 373 posts over those two years may* have been interesting/factual/funny/witty/worth reading/contain genuine shite.

Compared to the dozen in the last week that I can recall that have been none of the above.

 

 

 

Forums are what you make them, this place is no different. Dont like a thread? Dont contribute and start one of your own.

There seems to be loads of people, in a generic sense, who use forums and moan like Linda lovelace because they dont like threads or the forum "isnt what it used to be" and dont bother to start anything themselves, sort of thread vampires.

Ive started more than a few threads on here, the last two have been detested, even though the subject of number one was NOT about classics and the second one was a piss take. Now, granted, they may have gone down shit but why did they get to so many pages?

Another case of people whinging and posting on the threads they are whinging about and bumping them up the page.Fucking intelligent, right?

Red Sparrow was considerably smarter than me in not starting the banger thread but he would not have got half the shit ive got if he had. Playground mentality.

The place is not unique, its got top posters, thickys and people with gigantic egos, just like everywhere else.

Christ, people pull the piss out of the blue forum yet this place is considerably worse at times.

its about old cars and shit cars, its not brain surgery, people need to calm down and get a fucking grip on reality which this place should be only a tiny part of.

Its only as good as the contributions so, maybe, more than the same faces need to start creating?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

FFS freeb, just give it a rest will you, stop winding folk up and stop posting loads of guff about other forums & forum members for gods sake.

[SambaS]

it's funny how their Mrs always looks the bleedin same

[Cavcraft]

Is anyone else struggling with this new photobucket site? It may be just me, but as far as I can tell its gone from 'decent' to 'fucking shit'.

 

Absolutely. As has already been alluded to on here, it used to be good but sadly now it's awful. They have taken notice though because there is a way you can switch to the 'old style' and whilst they on e said it was a temporary thing, they have since told me they were going to keep it now for those that preferred it. I'm pretty sure they were losing 'customers' hand over foot which probably changed their minds.

I moved on to Flickr and have to say its brilliant. The sort if 'social media' side of it is great, you can check in on other people's pictures and updates if they're your pal on there and you can spend all day looking at stuff. I also like the fact you can comment on pictures and occasionally get something nice said about one of your own photo's or people adding them as a favourite.

I get notifications when AS members upload new stuff and there's everything from cars, buses, lorries etc plus the photo DKILLZORS of most are just mint.

[Guest]

^ Yup, the occasional passing glance by one of The Management would be appreciated.

 

 

Used to be good on here but its declined in the last year or so. I hardly bother these days

In all fairness, 373 posts in nearly two and a half years suggests that you have never overly bothered in the first place.

 

 

Ok - I have 3590 posts behind me and could say the same. Hell I hardly ever bother posting now except my Ebay stuff in the members thread. Spotted threads - Decent informative help threads etc seem to fall by the wayside but Banger threads / attacking other members threads seem to roll on.

[Craig the Princess]

Ok - I have 3590 posts behind me and could say the same. Hell I hardly ever bother posting now except my Ebay stuff in the members thread. Spotted threads - Decent informative help threads etc seem to fall by the wayside but Banger threads / attacking other members threads seem to roll on.

 

Nah, it was way worse last year. Apart from the Banger Racing threads it's been pretty good on here of late, winter is always less busy as it's too flipping cold. Last year we had a series of threads on how bad it was, how it wasn't so bad, etc. We have has some cracking collection and build threads of late. Spotted threads have always suffered as they always slip down the forum as it's hard to comment on them. Perhaps we need one big spotted thread for those without huge spotted threads to keep the thread near the top with lots of updates.

[chaseracer]

Can we all just agree to disagree?

 

 

Milk & sugar...?

 

[Wilko220]

Ok - I have 3590 posts behind me and could say the same. Hell I hardly ever bother posting now except my Ebay stuff in the members thread. Spotted threads - Decent informative help threads etc seem to fall by the wayside but Banger threads / attacking other members threads seem to roll on.

 

Nah, it was way worse last year. Apart from the Banger Racing threads it's been pretty good on here of late, winter is always less busy as it's too flipping cold. Last year we had a series of threads on how bad it was, how it wasn't so bad, etc. We have has some cracking collection and build threads of late. Spotted threads have always suffered as they always slip down the forum as it's hard to comment on them. Perhaps we need one big spotted thread for those without huge spotted threads to keep the thread near the top with lots of updates.

 

I agree with CtP - people always whinging about "fings ain't what they used to be" has for a long time been one of the biggest irritations about AS. Actually, the inevitable dross aside, there's a lot good, in fact great, about it.

[greengartside]

Slightly O/T from the last few threads but I am in a grump. Can the good people of this world please stop scrapping Ford Focus's that are of any use to someone. Went to my local scrapyard yesterday and there's another four or five waiting to be crushed, just because people are wasteful and won't spend £100 on getting it through an M.o.T. One Focus needed a bit for the back axle but they couldn't be bothered and so weighed it in! if anyone does know of a good Focus going begging then I'd be interested...

[Des]

All modern internet forums are shit, 1980s forums were the best of evah.

[Akron]

All modern internet forums are shit, 1980s forums were the best of evah.

 

Too right bring back IRC chat