The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

God knows. I think if you lobbed the 3.0 Omega engine into a Nova it'd be the fastest thing you'd ever driven just before it tears itself in half and/or just carries straight on on a corner.

[chaseracer]

3.0 = inline, 3.2 = V6.  I think.

 

Transverse I-6 in a Nova would be a giggle... 

[Lacquer Peel]

Both V6.

[Lankytim]

Whoever made that BF109 out of a merc is a right cripple, it's silver so a P51 Mustang would have been far more apt.

[maxpower]

I don't know if this should be in the G.O.M section or stupid question amnesty.

 

as posted a few pages back that i got a ticket for not changing my parking permit/scratchcard.

 

last night i saw that i was down to my last scratchcard so i went to housing office to buy a new book of scratchcards.

"Sorry but you can't have any as you only bought the last book at the start of june and you can only buy a new book full every 6 weeks"

so let me throw this one out to the "shiter's" incase i am missing the point here.

 

1) allowance of one book of scratchcards @ £10 every six weeks.

 

2) book contains a total of 30 scratchcards.

 

3) 6x7=42 which leaves 12 days without scratchards.

 

4) failure to display a scratchcard results in a parking ticket with £120 fine....... £60 if paid within 14 days.

 

5) housing has no parking bays available for rent at the moment, so you have to use visitor's bays which require the above scratchcards.

 

6) fines payable to "towerhamlet parking services" do you think that lot and my housing association are in cahoots with each other?

[Junkman]

It's all a big conspiracy.

[HillmanImp]

  On 01/07/2013 at 17:27, Micrashed said:

Im deaf (well without my hearing aids in anyway) and have so far made it to the ripe old age of Miserable B'stard without getting run over when I cant hear cars or bikes. It is possible.

 

I know, when I am riding my bike to work I like to put my personal stereo on. Personally, I would have thought that this was pretty inoffensive but I actually get people stopping and shouting at me because I have the headphones in.

 

I can hear you pal, I am just listening to the fucking radio not trying to recreate the late 80's rave scene on my way to work. Even if I did have it on full volume, some bint doing her makeup, not looking where she is going and about to drive into me, sounds EXACTLY the fucking same as any other car about to drive past me up to the point that I hear your bumper crash into my rear wheel and by that point its too late anyhow.

 

If I am about to get flattened I wouldn't mind some music to listen to whilst I wait for the ambulance. 

 

[vulgalour]

Remember recently I had three sets of wheel nuts undone on the BX?  It happened again today on the Princess.  For the first time in forever the Princess was on the street during the day as people were in and out so when I set off to Retro Rides I thought it would be easy peasy.  Get on the motorway and the rear end feels distinctly detached, there's a weird vagueness through the pedals but not noises, so I pull off at the first services which is thankfully very close to where I joined to find the same three wheel nut sets were undone.  Not finger tight this time, but enough to cause movement.

 

What the actual fuck?

 

Oh and my fuel gauge has gone on occasional strike while driving too which made me panic when it suddenly said I had no petrols, and then a moment later I had the amount I expected to have in the tank.  All old cars are shit, &c.

[Lord Sterling]

Bloody 'ell Volks, someone does have it in for you it seems. I'd try and sort some cheapy camera/recorder by the window and see if it catches the wankers in the act.

[autofive]

  On 01/07/2013 at 21:14, vulgalour said:

 Retro Rides

What the actual fuck?

 

 

 

I can see your problem

[Junkman]

  On 01/07/2013 at 21:14, vulgalour said:

Remember recently I had three sets of wheel nuts undone on the BX?  It happened again today on the Princess.  For the first time in forever the Princess was on the street during the day as people were in and out so when I set off to Retro Rides I thought it would be easy peasy.  Get on the motorway and the rear end feels distinctly detached, there's a weird vagueness through the pedals but not noises, so I pull off at the first services which is thankfully very close to where I joined to find the same three wheel nut sets were undone.  Not finger tight this time, but enough to cause movement.

 

What the actual fuck?

 

 

Maybe time to invest in a new torque wrench?

[dollywobbler]

Certainly a consideration. The Maverick was marvellous for loosening its own wheelnuts. Pretty sure it wasn't a rogue neighbour as we don't seem to get them in these parts, and that's the only car I've ever had a problem with.

[vulgalour]

We're sure it's a neighbour, there's good reason to think so.  Also, the Princess has never had the habit of undoing her own wheel nuts, ever, and this is the first time she's spent a good amount of time on the street rather than on the drive so I'm more suspicious of foul play than mechanical quirk.  There's other random petty acts that have happened too, and the verbal abuse, and the malicious rumour mongering.  Frankly, I'd be surprised if the person I think it is didn't have a hand in it they seem to have taken particular exception to me since I stood up against them for being malicious and poisonous about a family member.  I'll just be happy when I move, I could do without this shit really.

[Lacquer Peel]

That's awful Vulga. Is it worth installing wheel nut caps? It'll make it a bit less easy to tamper with.

[vulgalour]

It is the next job, really, in the meantime I'll just keep her off the street at all times, even if it's inconvenient.

[maxpower]

  On 01/07/2013 at 23:56, vulgalour said:

It is the next job, really, in the meantime I'll just keep her off the street at all times, even if it's inconvenient.

 

And don't forget that truck load of manure to be delivered to the suspect neighbour's drive when they are out at work

[vulgalour]

Yeah, last time they told me it was attempted manslaughter/murder.  Got a local officer coming out later today to have a word, he'll go round all the neighbours again, quite a few of whom are genuinely horrified about it.  The annoying thing is I can't prove anything and I can't say with 100% certainty that the people I suspect are the people responsible.  There's things that seem more than coincidental for it happening though so I'll just pass what I suspect on to the police and hope it doesn't happen again, I can't believe it happened at all let alone twice in the space of about a month.

[HillmanImp]

I never thought about it before but maybe I am not the buffoon I thought I was, forgetting to do the wheels up after each time I take them off. Maybe someone is trying to kill me. But who? TBH, it could be anyone. I will take my chances.

 

If someone is doing the wheels that is pretty serious but the police wont five a fuck unless they catch them doing it (and what can they do them for then I wonder), or something happens. I would suggest a good shoeing from you and some mates to whoever you suspect in a dark alley, thats legal and the only fair solution.

 

You can trust me on this too as I am an anonymous person on t'interweb. I have a law degree, used to be a high ranking policeman and work as an exotic sportscar mechanic most weekends when I am not knobbing my supermodel wife, so know about shoeing people AND wheels AND knobbing supermodels. 

[Wilko220]

I don't see how there can be such thing as "attempted manslaughter" - that's a contradiction in terms, surely?

Very serious business though. I hope they catch the bastards.

[Rocket88]

Any chance of getting 16 locking wheel nuts cheap?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Or a damn CCTV camera pointing at the car so you can see who might be trying to kill you FFS. 

 

"Oh dear, someone has put arsenic in my lunch again. Maybe I should buy some locking tupperware, that'll take care of it".

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Simply remove the wheelnuts and lock them away so they cannot be tampered with

[Barry Cade]

  On 02/07/2013 at 11:37, colc said:

Any chance of getting 16 locking wheel nuts cheap?

That'll f*uck them up for a while until they gather together 16 smaller sockets...

[TimothyClaypole]

One of those yellow paint markers the scrappies use to mark parts with on your nuts then it'll transfer onto the suspects wheel brace.

[Junkman]

If you really suspect wrongdoing, get yourself a bottle of fast drying nail polish.

Torque your lug nuts to spec, and dab each one with a drop.

This way you at least can tell whether someone has tampered with them or not while the car was parked.

[Albert Ross]

Are you sure it's not just a taper mismatch between the non-Standard rims and your BL wheel nuts? I only ask, as we used to see tis a lot with MSD wheels on Vectra B models. The tapers differ from normal VX wheels. On your motor, is it ALWAYS the same wheels? Both fronts and one rear? It could be that the wheels do not have steel inserts to take a tapered thread, instead relying on the Japanese/French style of wheel nut, which utilises a flat washer against a flat section of the hole, and relying on being hubcentric. Are you using spigot rings? Is there a hub/spigot mismatch?

[cort16]

I put a best off on that XJR and the seller is obviously hedging their bets to see if anything better comes in (fair enough I'd do the same) but I keep checking every 24 seconds to see if they've accepted the offer.

 

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[chaseracer]

So... have they accepted yet?

 

[vulgalour]

The wheel nut thing has become a grump of it's own now.  Seriously guys, it's someone tampering with my cars, it's not because I've forgotten to do the nuts up or I've got the wrong bits on the car or the car magically undoes its own nuts.  It has happened twice and both times were the only times my cars were parked for any unwatched period of time on the street.  Both times has been not long after I've received verbal abuse from the suspected parties and both times the car has behaved flawlessly with no hint of loose nuts for some time.

 

So I'm putting it to bed, that's the end of it.  Clearly they're just jealous that I'm so fucking awesome and they're trying to remove the competition.  What they hadn't banked on is the fact that I am actually more awesome than they expected and I know how to use a wheelbrace too.

[cort16]

  On 02/07/2013 at 16:41, chaseracer said:

So... have they accepted yet?

 

 

Ye...NO