The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

All the best, Rab, get well soon fella.

[dollywobbler]

Take it easy Rab - sounds like you're in good hands.

 

Wuv - are you sure you're not just noticing the noisy-neutral now you're paranoid about damage? Not at all unusual for PSA stuff to do that. Both my 2CV and all BXs I've ever owned have some noise in neutral that disappears when the clutch goes down. Does sound like the linkage has gone askew - again, not that unusual (1905cc petrol BXs seem most prone to this - perhaps because people are changing hard when accelerating?)

[Cheggers]

Take care of yourself Rab, you'll come through this...

[wuvvum]

Rab - sounds scary. As others have said, hope you're feeling better soon.

 

Wobbler - don't think so, sadly. The noise is also present when driving in second gear - and I would defo have noticed it had it been there before as when I'm driving an unfamiliar old car halfway up the country I'm always hyper-sensitive to any unusual noises. As I say, it's not loud enough that I think the gearbox is going to implode imminently, but I'd be dubious about undertaking a long-distance trip with it as it is, so in the medium term it's going to need sorting.

[Albert Ross]

SambaS has located a complete Samba in a Doncaster scrapyard, 954cc 1981/2 reg, 19000 miles, for breaking only. It looks to have the mechanicals intact. You might want to try to get him to deal for the bits you need.....

[warren t claim]

R.I.P horror writer James Herbert. Anyone who name checked scabby Austin 1100s and fawn coloured Capris in his books is a hero for me.

[DodgyBastard]

I had just turned off a roundabout when this happened,

 

 

Lower ball joint separated causing the wheel to push up into the arch, damaging it and breaking the plastic trim.

 

 

Those were taken the next day, This is how fucked I was on the night it happened...

 

 

 

 

[Tayne]

I had just turned off a roundabout when this happened,

 

 

Now it sucks that that has happened but I'll suggest something which might bring a giggle.

 

Why not post that picture on Retro Rides and tell them its some new mod you've figured out for "stance innit" *, just to see how many people congratulate you...

 

 

 

 

And I hope you get better soon Rab.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Have I said that right?

I often get into a terrible kerfuffle over such things as both of my shoes are the same colour and my trousers are belted around my waist and not half way down my bottom.

[Angrydicky]

 

*Have I said that right?

I often get into a terrible kerfuffle over such things as both of my shoes are the same colour and my trousers are belted around my waist and not half way down my bottom.

 

[SambaS]

Urrrrrrrr *clattter* beep beep beep (repeat x10) *muffled voices* *LAUGHTER* Urrrrrrrr *bang* beep beep beep - - silence - - Urrrrrrrr *clatter* beep beep beep (repeat x10)

[SambaS]

Why oh why cant they resurface the road during the day when I am not trying to sleep. Sod the several hundred people who would have to turn round and go via Starbeck. Grr

[Lord Sterling]

Rab - I really hope you get better soon mate. Relax and take it easy.

[Angrydicky]

Looks like yet another welding day wasted waiting for this sheet steel to arrive from Ebay. Also no sign of my floorpan and outriggers I ordered on Friday.

[Angrydicky]

Oh yeah, the new photobucket is a massive steaming turd.

[hennabm]

To the twunt of a knobjockey in the M reg Toyota on the A1 this evening between the M62 and Doncaster;

 

FCUK OFF the outside lane is NOT yours. Move over you mouthing breathing, oxygen wasting carbon reject.

 

And relax

[Craig the Princess]

Kids, when you grow up don't manage people. They are generally cunts.

[RoadworkUK]

Gentleman in the grey Octavia estate typically heavily laden, reg. WF*****. I've seen you about many a time on the Colchester section of the A12, I know full well that you take the Clacton turn-off and head in the Weeley direction. I also know that every time I've seen you about you've been cruising at approx 90-100 mph, you tailgate, typically avoid using your indicators where you can help it, cut in to the beginning of queues and generally antagonise people. You incite road-rage and will, no doubt, someday cause a massive, fatal accident.

 

I'm standing well clear.

[Ben_L]

Gentleman in the grey Octavia estate typically heavily laden, reg. WF60KE*. I've seen you about many a time on the Colchester section of the A12, I know full well that you take the Clacton turn-off and head in the Weeley direction. I also know that every time I've seen you about you've been cruising at approx 90-100 mph, you tailgate, typically avoid using your indicators where you can help it, cut in to the beginning of queues and generally antagonise people. You incite road-rage and will, no doubt, someday cause a massive, fatal accident.

 

I'm standing well clear.

 

*J.

 

I've seen a dickhead matching that description on the A12 about 3 weeks back... Really thought he was gonna get followed home and given a pasting the way he was driving.

[George-Roper]

Oh yeah, the new photobucket is a massive steaming turd.

 

Never 100% great but it is now a big steaming dog turd from hell. Progress. Pah!

[Richard]

Imgur is the way to go, so far I'm finding it does what I ask it to, and without being a massive resource hog.

[Cavcraft]

And talking of computer related things, I can once again verify Windows 8 is a bag of absolute fucking shit. If anyone's going to buy a new PC shortly then avoid this plague like a plague.

[wackywacerwill]

Speed bumps. They're every feckingwhere around here and are currently being fitted down my road We've lived here for 15 years and to my knowledge the only accident has been when my Mrs put my motocycleshite through the neighbors garden fence. Speed bumps would not have helped her plight one bit.

[Cavcraft]

Greedy people: someone offered me a cycle for £15.00 after they advertised for £25. I agreed to the deal then half an hour later I got 'I've been offered £30 but you can have it for £25'. I knocked them back as we had a deal at £15, and told them to take the £30 they'd been offered. Then they said '£20 and no less' so I still fucked 'em off.

It's a great buy because it's a decent bike, and there's a few quid in it, but I'm not going to have it at any price now.

[cort16]

I went to fill the car up with diesel this morning and when I picked the nozzle off the pump the wind blew the diesel sitting in the end of the hose (about 1/2 a litre by the looks of it) down the side of the car, down my trousers and all over my jacket. I smell like I've fell into a tank of heating oil. I'm tempted to go out and by a new pair of jeans at lunch time as I fuggin hate the smell of diesel!

[beko1987]

I went to fill the car up with diesel this morning and when I picked the nozzle off the pump the wind blew the diesel sitting in the end of the hose (about 1/2 a litre by the looks of it) down the side of the car, down my trousers and all over my jacket. I smell like I've fell into a tank of heating oil. I'm tempted to go out and by a new pair of jeans at lunch time as I fuggin hate the smell of diesel!

 

I was brimming SWMBO's corsa once with petrol at asda, doing the old trick of fill it up so I can see the fuel under the filler cap. However, it filled up more quickly that I'd anticipated, and I spilt about a fivers worth of pez all down my trousers. I had to walk into Asda (swmbo wouldn't let me back in the car) stinking of petrol, buy some cheap trousers and change in the toilets. I got some funny looks queuing at the tills making people cough!

 

I wanted to keep my now petrol soaked trousers, so hung them up in the garage for a month until the smell went. Sadly the petrol fucked the cheap dye up and they went red in places. They are now my working on the car trousers.

 

Cool story bro etc.

[Pillock]

I'm back up to 7-800 miles a week on the motorways now and people's driving is really starting to cheese me off. How people can drive under a matrix sign that reads "DON'T HOG THE MIDDLE LANE" yet still be in the middle lane with nothing in lane 1 for miles is beyond me, do they think the signs are for everyone else? What's difficult about that concept? I've given up undertaking, it seems a little dangerous so I just make a point of going round them in lane 3 with a flash of the fullbeam as I momentarily occupy lane 2, immediately start indicating back into lane 1 as I pass them (and I've got the side repeaters in my wing mirrors so they're right next to their stupid ignorant face as I pass), and back to 1. Sometimes it works, sometimes I wonder if they have any spacial awareness at all.

 

Also, the bell in a BMW 545i that tried to dive onto the M5 at Cribbs yesterday from the middle lane of the roundabout, then sounded the horn as I was in his way in the correct lane. Drove right up behind me, jumped into the inside lane of the slip road and tried to undertake but just ended up slamming the brakes on inches from the back end of a Polo that was just there, doing the right thing in the right lane. Back into my lane behind me, then across the hatches onto the motorway and STRAIGHT into lane 3. I passed him about 2 miles later as he was in lane 2 trying to force his way into the queue for the M4 turning that had started a mile previously. He looked proper furious so I made sure I slowed slightly, hopefully he saw me LAUGHING MY TITS OFF at him.

 

All I can do these days is thank my lucky stars I get home alive, and laugh at the idiots who believe their goal in life is to shave 30 seconds off their drive home and screw everyone else.

[dollywobbler]

I went to fill the car up with diesel this morning and when I picked the nozzle off the pump the wind blew the diesel sitting in the end of the hose (about 1/2 a litre by the looks of it) down the side of the car, down my trousers and all over my jacket. I smell like I've fell into a tank of heating oil. I'm tempted to go out and by a new pair of jeans at lunch time as I fuggin hate the smell of diesel!

 

I was brimming SWMBO's corsa once with petrol at asda, doing the old trick of fill it up so I can see the fuel under the filler cap. However, it filled up more quickly that I'd anticipated, and I spilt about a fivers worth of pez all down my trousers. I had to walk into Asda (swmbo wouldn't let me back in the car) stinking of petrol, buy some cheap trousers and change in the toilets. I got some funny looks queuing at the tills making people cough!

 

I wanted to keep my now petrol soaked trousers, so hung them up in the garage for a month until the smell went. Sadly the petrol fucked the cheap dye up and they went red in places. They are now my working on the car trousers.

 

Cool story bro etc.

 

You should never fill a car that much anyway. I've got a friend who did this one hot summer in France. The petrol then expanded in the heat and quite a lot of it was lost down the side of the car. Petrol expands, and during warmer months, the ambient temperature will be far higher than the underground storage tanks. Second click is as far as I go when filling up.

[autofive]

but its winter

 

did you not notice that ?

[cort16]

I had to walk into Asda (swmbo wouldn't let me back in the car) stinking of petrol, buy some cheap trousers and change in the toilets. I got some funny looks queuing at the tills making people cough!

 

You should have went to the cigarette counter first and bought a lighter and some fags then watch everyone around you back away slowly.

[dollywobbler]

but its winter

 

did you not notice that ?

 

Of course. I should have realised. I'm sure he only fills his car up in the depths of winter. Silly me.