The grumpy thread

[Negative Creep]

Although I do go on the DVLA check from time to time, there are a few of my old cars that I simply refuse to check as I'll be genuinely gutted if they've been scrapped

[chaseracer]

Said Ebay cockwand, of wobbly wheels bought by Wat: "yes they are very rare and these can be just cleaned and fitted..."

 

Er, no.  Neg the fucker.

[Station]

The amount of non shite related crap on the Facebook autoshite page!

[vulgalour]

Went to Oil Can Café, hung about for an hour or so, nobody turned up.  So I cut my losses and headed home because it was full of Dads and got stuck in the traffic caused by 2 lanes of the M1 being shut.  I couldn't even help the hitch-hiker at the services because I wasn't going as far as J15, I've never collected a hitch-hiker before and feel it is something I should do one day.

[warren t claim]

  On 16/06/2013 at 14:26, volksangyl said:

  I couldn't even help the hitch-hiker at the services because I wasn't going as far as J15, I've never collected a hitch-hiker before and feel it is something I should do one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfhF7wnhs8

[autofive]

ahh fingersmith

[Albert Ross]

  On 16/06/2013 at 12:36, Station said:

The amount of non shite related crap on the Facebook autoshite page!

Quite. I have people telling me they would rather spunk large amounts of cash on a Porker 911 than a Rear Engined Skoda! Sorry chaps, Skoda wins every time.

[wuvvum]

The Rover 400 shredded its fanbelt today, leading to my second AA call out in as many months.  The belt was proper perished to be fair, but it didn't really give much warning of its impending death - it hadn't been squealing or anything, and the first I knew of it was an almighty banging from under the bonnet as a piece of belt started flapping about and beating the crap out of various components.  It lasted for about three minutes before letting go completely.  I would have carried on driving, but on the diesel Rovers the water pump is driven off the fanbelt - I couldn't even do what I've done in the past and carried on until the temp gauge started to rise and then switched the engine off and coasted for a bit, as the temp gauge actually started dropping when the belt went, from which I assume that it must get its reading from the radiator rather than the engine.  The AA man didn't have a belt which would fit so he dragged me home on a bar.  Fortunately Wilcos in Norwich had a belt in stock, so as soon as I can be arsed I'll get it fitted.

[Station]

  On 16/06/2013 at 15:02, Albert Ross said:

Quite. I have people telling me they would rather spunk large amounts of cash on a Porker 911 than a Rear Engined Skoda! Sorry chaps, Skoda wins every time.

Just left the group, its a lot different to how the forum is.

[HillmanImp]

  On 16/06/2013 at 14:30, warren t claim said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfhF7wnhs8

 

Really? Rod Taylor? That's like having Sylvester Stallone star in an episode of Casualty isn't it?  

 

Anyhow for those who watched that:

 

The vehicle details for YJE 185T are:

Date of Liability 01 02 1989 Date of First Registration 20 04 1979 Year of Manufacture 1979 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 3295cc CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type PETROL Export Marker N Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour GREEN Vehicle Type Approval Not Available Vehicle Excise Duty rate for vehicle 6 Months Rate £123.75 12 Months Rate £225.00

 

The vehicle details for GVL 944T are:

Date of Liability 05 02 1990 Date of First Registration 01 05 1979 Year of Manufacture 1979 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 928cc CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type PETROL Export Marker N Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour ORANGE Vehicle Type Approval Not Available Vehicle Excise Duty rate for vehicle 6 Months Rate £77.00 12 Months Rate £140.00

 

[warren t claim]

Rod Taylor. Last seen playing Churchill in a Tarantino movie.

[warren t claim]

Note to Ebay. I don't give a fuck how many people are looking at this item every hour.

[Cavcraft]

  On 16/06/2013 at 16:17, warren t claim said:

Note to Ebay. I don't give a fuck how many people are looking at this item every hour.

 

+1, been ranting myself about this recently.

[Lord Sterling]

Not entirely car related, but.....

 

I quite liked that little theme tune at the end of the 'old' Top Gear, so I looked it up and found the tune was by non other than Elton John, so I look up on youtube for the tune, but I can't get it on my 'mobile device' so I bas up the site on my PC and find I still cannot listen to it because some company called 'UMG' has decided that I cannot listen to it due to the region I live in (the UK)

 

This is starting to happen to a lot of things I like to listen to, youtube is starting to become a very boring place.

 

Also, not had much of a weekend, suffice to say I now know why I hate going to nightclubs and socialising.

[Wilko220]

  On 16/06/2013 at 17:41, Lord Sterling said:

Not entirely car related, but.....

 

I quite liked that little theme tune at the end of the 'old' Top Gear, so I looked it up and found the tune was by non other than Elton John, so I look up on youtube for the tune, but I can't get it on my 'mobile device' so I bas up the site on my PC and find I still cannot listen to it because some company called 'UMG' has decided that I cannot listen to it due to the region I live in (the UK)

 

This is starting to happen to a lot of things I like to listen to, youtube is starting to become a very boring place.

 

 It's called "Out of the Blue". You can listen to it on Spotify and download it from iTunes.

 It's the ringtone on my phone!!!!!!11!!111!

[garycox]

You can listen to it here (hopefully)

 

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search?q=out+of+the+blue+moves

 

 

^^^

(if you copy & paste that lot)

[dollywobbler]

I got lured back onto the Autoshite FB page because folk kept tagging me. I have left again.

[Lord Sterling]

  On 16/06/2013 at 19:22, garycox said:

You can listen to it here (hopefully)

 

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search?q=out+of+the+blue+moves

 

 

^^^

(if you copy & paste that lot)

THAT is seriously excellent!!!!!

 

Where can I download this please Gary? Thanks.

[Wilko220]

  On 16/06/2013 at 19:59, dollywobbler said:

I got lured back onto the Autoshite FB page because folk kept tagging me. I have left again.

 

With the greatest of respect to the person who started it (who I'm sure did so for all the right reasons), having had another look at the FB page today, I'd suggest that it should either be closed down or it's name changed. It's an embarrassment to this forum.

[Cavcraft]

If anyone is arsed then I'll start a new one and have it as invitation only.

[Wilko220]

  On 16/06/2013 at 20:24, Cavette said:

If anyone is arsed then I'll start a new one and have it as invitation only.

 

Personally, I'm not bothered whether we have one or not - what gets on my tits is the fact that we have an utterly shit one carrying the Autoshite name!

[Station]

Do start a new one!

I miss WarrenTClaim's gumtree finds and general photo shite.

[SambaS]

Why wont Google search for exact phrases in quotes anymore.

 

to "all those people in happy relationships" "fuck you" meme

 

..........just doesn't work like it would have once.

[SambaS]

Oh this will do

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It's half two in the morning and some bastard car alarm is going off in the distance and keeping me awake. 

 

I thought they were supposed to cut out after a few minutes. It's been going on for ages. 

 

edit: it stopped just as I pressed post

 

2:45 edit: GODDAMNIT

[cort16]

Just a general minor grump about the lack of interesting cars in my life at the moment. Having missed out on using the SD1 all last year because of welding the fugger up then sanding it's it's now on about it's 5th issue since April that stops me getting it in for it's MOT and using it. I even hoovered it out FFS.

I'm a bit worried about this latest stuck in gear issue. I've ordered a new gearbox oil filter (thanks to junkman pointing me in the right direction) so I'm hoping a gearbox flush will get it going again else I'm just going to have to park it up and try to find a new box or maybe go for the engine swap I was considering. Both of those aren't going to be quick fixes and in the mean time I'm bound to buy something to replace it sooner or later especially with the Smart up for sale for decent money. If that happens it'll probably just languish, which is a shame given how much time and effort I've put into it. Plus it's mega KOOL.

[daveb47]

Cavette,dont stat a new one as i can do one as an extension to here.

[Spiny Norman]

I don't know that it's such a great idea to start going down the 'Popular People's Front of Judea' / 'People's Front of Judea' / 'Judean People's Front' route  with another Farcebook group. I think the existing one is already diluting the traffic on here as people split their time and attention between the two places.

 

Either block the twats you don't want to have anything to do with (Very easy on FB, I'm up to about six now, with my finger hovering over a seventh) or forget it and support the forum.

 

As a side issue that maybe Dave can answer, I'm assuming that someone here actually 'owns' the forum and the server it lives in, yes? If that's the case, 'we' have ownership and copyright of whatever gets posted on here, which is certainly NOT the case with anything posted on Farcebook.

 

 

[trigger]

  On 17/06/2013 at 15:13, studebaker hawk said:

forget it and support the forum

 

THIS.

[dollywobbler]

Indeed. I mainly rejoined to see if there was a way to stop getting notifications from that group. Despite leaving, my news feed is still full of "someone you know just posted in Autoshite." I posted a "GR-125" about a bangered Rover 100 and promptly left again. The person who posted the pic didn't get it, which highlights the problem. This place IS Autoshite, that'll do for me.