The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

They run on extension leads fine, both mine are on cheapy extensions.

The older ones (with the 85Mbps rating, or even below) had to be on the same ring main. Newer ones, such as the 100Mbps or 200Mbps "AV" spec ones work fine as long as your house only has one fuse box, they can be on different ring mains - something to do with the extra speed coming from using live, earth and neutral in combination rather than just two lines - I think they do slow down if they're on different mains but still fast enough.

 

You just have to stick to the same standard, some anything that says Homeplug will work together, even different makes.

[Lord Sterling]

Fuxake. Come home from work to see all the loud wanker scutters hanging around outside. Get in and I feel right miserable. Get a letter from the tax people who say I owe them £1k. They can get to FUCK. I'm getting the fuck out of this country and I'm taking MY money with me.

[Cavcraft]

£360 bet up the Swannee because Chelsea didn't score

[Mr Livered]

Fuxake. Come home from work to see all the loud wanker scutters hanging around outside. Get in and I feel right miserable. Get a letter from the tax people who say I owe them £1k. They can get to FUCK. I'm getting the fuck out of this country and I'm taking my money with me.

The tax man sent me a very similar letter. In my case I have to decline his invitation to pay because my sense of obligation towards the seller of the W124 I have won on ebay is greater than that I feel towards HMRC. Wish me luck!

[outlaw118]

After the appointment at the hospital, not sure if I'm grumpy or not. Tests were "inconclusive". So, on the grumpy side, I might be dying. on the other hand, I might not. Who knows?

[Station]

The 'Rover 75 vs Clio" post on the autoshite Facebook page is a complete waste of time. Can't the owner just block those people starting these type of posts? It's not the end of the world, but there are other car sites for this type of thing.

[eddyramrod]

 I'm getting the fuck out of this country and I'm taking MY money with me.

 

Yeah, that was much of my thinking 5 years ago-ish.  I was fed up with Gordon The Prudent* shoving his mitt in my pocket every time I got paid, so we went to Cyprus.  At exactly the wrong time financially!  Good luck, I hope you do it better.  Don't forget to send us loads of photos of the old cars you trip over!

[Albert Ross]

The 'Rover 75 vs Clio" post on the autoshite Facebook page is a complete waste of time. Can't the owner just block those people starting these type of posts? It's not the end of the world, but there are other car sites for this type of thing.

"Owner" is busy with a new baby.... Other admin is busy with his life (and family)  I am attempting to rein in the edges on a daily basis... I have 100 or so people wishing to join, and I try to "vet" each one prior to accepting them, but I can only do the real admin from home, not my phone. I work 11 hours a day, and cover the FB page voluntarily. You wouldn't believe some of the messages and complaints I get. Yet I keep smiling, and realise there are other things going on in the world that are more important.

[Mr Livered]

I've never looked at it. Sounds like I shouldn't bother?

[Pillock]

It can be good - Facebook is a good platform for quickly sharing a photo of something you've seen, rather than crafting a long wordy post like on here.

However, it also seems to make it a prime target for idiots. I know Albert LaRoss looks after it but it would be a 24/7 job with no pay thanks to the idiot:normal ratio of Facebook so you have to mentally weed out the rubbish yourself. The only other thing I don't like is it gets personal - because Facebook, if you post something that someone else takes offence to, they can just click through to your profile and pick out stuff to moan about.  

 

I could offer my services as an extra mod for the FB group, but it would be an hour here and there and not an all night, every night thing.

[vulgalour]

Princess was fine post Shitefest (aka Generic Rubbish Vehicle Festival), but now I have an almost impossible to select first gear and attempts to select reverse just results in many, many grinding noises.  So I cannot reverse at all.

 

I have absolutely no idea what's wrong with her.  Post Shitefest blues perhaps?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

clutch hydraulics I reckon

[richardthestag]

Sounds clutch related. likely to be whatever connects the clutch pedal to the release mechanism. I think your is hydraulic.

 

Switch engine off, do gears engage cleanly? I expect that they will. Then engage reverse and try start the engine, does car try to move backwards. obviously make sure nowt is behind and that you have foot on brake pedal etc etc.

 

Chances are that hydraulics has air in it, simple bleed might fix. if it does but air gets back in then slave / master rebuild might be on the cards

 

On A series transverse there was a lever that was pushed by the clutch that was supposed to disengage the clutch. It had a ball on the end that wore away only on one side, it go so far as to take maybe 2mm off the ball before the clutch would no longer disengage correctly.

 

A good one looks like this

 

a borked one would have a slightly shaved ball on the left side of the pic

 

edit to add bollocks beaten by Bollox

[vulgalour]

Mike just suggested the same thing.  I've never dealt with clutch hydraulics so it's a lovely new thing for me to learn.  Somehow this has failed between me parking the car up last night and using it this morning.  Without the engine running the gears select perfectly well which I guess strengthens the suspected hydraulic issue since the hydraulics aren't working with the engine off and therefore not getting in the way and causing the problem.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

have a look at the slave cylinder, if its clean and dry externally its the master cylinder at fault. They don't last forever, probably needs a new seal kit.

[richardthestag]

Mike just suggested the same thing.  I've never dealt with clutch hydraulics so it's a lovely new thing for me to learn.  Somehow this has failed between me parking the car up last night and using it this morning.  Without the engine running the gears select perfectly well which I guess strengthens the suspected hydraulic issue since the hydraulics aren't working with the engine off and therefore not getting in the way and causing the problem.

 

hydraulics get in the way regardless of the engine running or not. but proving that gears select with engine off means that it is more likely to be hydraulic only doing 90% of what it is supposed to do and thus the clutch is not disengaging fully. first and reverse are always the first to suffer. Selecting reverse and then starting the engine with the clutch pedal down proves that the clutch is probably dragging due to hydraulics not doing their job. if the cars moves or tries to move backwards with the clutch down means that the clutch hydraulics are fecked.

 

Get yer clutch bled, you will learn all about bleeding nipples etc It isn't tricky

 

get one of these

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIZIBLEED-VISIBLEED-ONE-MAN-BRAKE-AND-CLUTCH-BLEED-BLEEDING-TOOL-KIT-UNIVERSAL-/310417211529?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item48464ec089

 

a jam car and spanner to undo the bleed nipple on the slave. check fluid is topped up in the master cylinder, open the bleed nipple and get a mate to pump the clutch pedal slowly. you should just see clean fluid in the bleed pipe, if you get bubbles, keep going until you don't. keep checking the master doesn't run dry. When no more bubbles. get mate to hold clutch pedal to floor and tighten the bleed nipple. all done

 

don't reuse old brake fluid

[vulgalour]

Right, reverse works if you turn the engine off, select reverse, and then turn the engine on again.  I will bleed the system.  There are no apparent leaks from the visible bits of the clutch hydraulic system and I have no idea when it was bled last so we'll give it a try and see how we go.

 

Oh, and the car doesn't move when reverse is selected, engine on, clutch pedal down.  It's only as you lift the pedal that the car moves as normal.

[trigger]

I wasn't really sure where to post this but a little part of me just cried, a 81 year old 2CV owner has recently found this mint, 1 owner from new Honda Civic with only 35000 miles on the clock for £250.

 

 

 

 

Now this is a excellent find, but look what he's done!.

 

 

 

 

I'm actually gutted! what's wrong with some of these people!.

 

 

http://thisoldhonda.org/collector_cars.php?ID=5290

[cobblers]

What an absolute bellend.

[meggersdog]

Thought you'd got the 8 and 1 round the wrong way until I saw the last photo....

[TagoraSX]

Oh dear

 

"2CV owner" that explains it.

[retrogeezer]

jeez, I blame the cataracts..

[autofive]

"Lord Bath buys Honda"

[vulgalour]

The side graphics are tolerable, the yellow wheels and grille could at least be repainted but that door mirror is unforgivable.

[chaseracer]

Oh lordy, Barry Iddon...   I had dealings with him when I edited the 2CV club mag** about a million years ago.

** senior contributor: D. Wobbler, esq. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Jesus

[Cavcraft]

Looking at his 2CV, I'd have thought he was the ideal target audience for a Chrysler PMT Loser.

[Jim Bell]

What a douche.

 

I'm not saying hes a peadophile.......................... but hes probably a peadophile.

[dollywobbler]

FFS. What a car ruiner. I also wonder if any part of that 2CV actually dates from 1966.

 

I think we should disown him. He's not a proper 2CVer. Most 2CV folk are thankfully not him.

[STUNO]

That is horrifying, but he owns it and I will even forgive him so long as the mirror uses the same mounting holes.