The grumpy thread

[retrogeezer]

I don't live in the country and I still consider 3mbps  to be fast!

 

And 2 years for a battery is pretty crap isn't it? My K800i one still works after 8 years!

[Jim Bell]

0700 starts in the cold wet winter. On a Sunday.

 

Clear roads though. Managed 11 miles urban driving, including city centre, without one stop.

 

I am the King of all traffic lights!!!!!!!

[Negative Creep]

A prospective buyer actually turned up to look at the 944! Yay! Then he said he could only offer £350 as it had a few dents so would need replacement panels. Sigh.

[Negative Creep]

I can understand why people just scrap cars or take low WBAC offers rather than go through the hassle of dealing with the general public

[Lankytim]

unless you have a solid trustworthy buyer lined up its easier to just scrap cars that are worth less than say, £500. The amount of penniless cripples they attract just isn't worth the bother. My AX ha just been blown out by TWO buyers. Can't afford it apparently.

[Timewaster]

  On 12/10/2013 at 22:08, TheTDCiWeigh said:

My almost two year old Galaxy S2 battery has finally crapped out. When plugged into the mains, it says it is charging, but remains at 0% and then shuts down immediately, once I remove teh powa.

 

Unlike a certain other smart phone, the battery can at least be changed without the need of a soldering iron on this STONKING PHONE.

I've just replaced the battery in my S2 AGAIN! Good job they are only a few quid from the bay. I bought the gold high capacity one this time and had so far lasted a day and a night.

A cheap fix for a phone that was heading for the recycling envelope as it was bloody useless before.

[overrun]

  On 13/10/2013 at 15:09, tontops said:

I've just replaced the battery in my S2 AGAIN! Good job they are only a few quid from the bay. I bought the gold high capacity one this time and had so far lasted a day and a night.

A cheap fix for a phone that was heading for the recycling envelope as it was bloody useless before.

 

I've had 22 months out of mine, so can't complain. As with everything I own, the phone has been treat like dog muck.

I shall look into this high capacity battery of which you speak.

[Cavcraft]

Marty, you should have said. I live fairly close and work on The Wirral, so could have collected for you. If you find anything else in the area give me a shout.

[Micrashed]

Billy - it was worth the trip to see the PURPLE wheelie bins they have in Liverpool - I mean Purple - how wild is that??

 

Anyway, asked the bloke to come and pick it up as Im not pissing about driving to the Wirral again to sort out something that isnt my cock up - he has 7 days before the bay will refund me anyway!

[RichardMoss]

  On 12/10/2013 at 11:54, Tetleysmooth said:

Does the mood need raising? No? Ok, we'll keep it down then.

I've got a dental infection. The left side of my face has come up like a football.

You can at least self-medicate for pain-killers.  My dentist advised me to take Paracetmol and Ibuprofen on an alternating 2 hour cycle whilst waiting for the anti-biotics to kick in on my abscess.  Worked a treat

[Bobthebeard]

More investigations on recently bought 944.....

 

Arrrgh.!!

[hairnet]

central birmingham

 

on the upside rain stopped at teh motorway and only hour and half home

 

and to repeat the other post from yesterday

 

CAN ALL THA RICH COONTS STOP BUYING THE CARS WE WANT

 

must go back to the auction tomorrow to see about a xsara with laquer peel

[Cavcraft]

  On 13/10/2013 at 22:57, hairnet said:

 

 

must go back to the auction tomorrow to see about a xsara with laquer peel

 

Don't invite Wat.

[Tetleysmooth]

  On 13/10/2013 at 06:10, Tetleysmooth said:

I've just done a 12 hour shift. Absolutely knackered, but I thought 'I can't take this for much longer'. It's got worse, so I went straight to A&E from work. 'They'll prescribe some antibiotics'. Did they bollocks. I've got to go back after 10 today. WTF is going on?

I should have made this a thread all of its own.

I went back to the 'urgent care centre' again yesterday, told the nurse behind the window that I'd been there in the morning, about 5.30am, and I'd been booked in already, and if I came here later, I'd be seen straight away. You guessed it. Not booked in. Start all over again. The place was rammed. I told the nurse I'd go to my dentist in the morning. All she said was 'Yeah, ok'.

God bless Queens Hospital, Romford.

I reckon I could get a bar of gold bullion easier than a course of antibiotics.

[KruJoe]

...and I'm back in the room.

 

  On 12/10/2013 at 15:22, KruJoe said:

We're without land-line or internet for TWO FUCKING WEEKS !11!!!!!1111

...

so without mobile coverage either. Brilliant. Nice move.

 

 

  On 12/10/2013 at 15:35, HillmanImp said:

I was wondering where you were Joe.......as I was going to try punting the Audi onto you 

Thanks but no thanks!

I have more on the go than I can shake a stick at. Shite fund empty too.

 

 

  On 12/10/2013 at 19:47, dollywobbler said:

Joe - I very much feel for you. BT Openfarce are an absolute shower of shit. 

We also consider 3Mbps as pretty bloody fast.

Thank you DW.

 

We're only re-connected because we went and confronted the engineers face to face when we spotted them down the road. They had been sent to replace the line for the Orange relay station at our place. That was all they had on their job sheet. They took pity and tied up our line too (temporarily). So all our hours battling through call centres did bugger all!

Orange / EE and BT / Open Reach can FRO

EE were already in our bad books for their absolutely shocking service.

Does anyone have advice about getting compensation out of them?

[Tetleysmooth]

Like I've said on here before, I've resisted all urges to sell my Grand Voyager, and now this comes along:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/157830/black-lexus-gs300-south-wales

 

It's making me grumpy because I want it.

Better than a Merc in my opinion, unless you lot know different

[STUNO]

  On 14/10/2013 at 08:54, Tetleysmooth said:

Like I've said on here before, I've resisted all urges to sell my Grand Voyager, and now this comes along:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/157830/black-lexus-gs300-south-wales

 

It's making me grumpy because I want it.

Better than a Merc in my opinion, unless you lot know different

One of the best cars money can buy, seriously underrated and at pounds 450 a good buy !

I am surprised that something does not work on it. No idea about the likelyhood of corrosion underneath though!

[cort16]

  On 13/10/2013 at 20:40, Bobthebeard said:

More investigations on recently bought 944.....

 

Arrrgh.!!

 

Ouch! Is this the one you bought with recently restored sills?

[gdhaydock]

  On 14/10/2013 at 08:25, KruJoe said:

...and I'm back in the room.

 

 

 

Thanks but no thanks!

I have more on the go than I can shake a stick at. Shite fund empty too.

 

 

Thank you DW.

 

We're only re-connected because we went and confronted the engineers face to face when we spotted them down the road. They had been sent to replace the line for the Orange relay station at our place. That was all they had on their job sheet. They took pity and tied up our line too (temporarily). So all our hours battling through call centres did bugger all!

Orange / EE and BT / Open Reach can FRO

EE were already in our bad books for their absolutely shocking service.

Does anyone have advice about getting compensation out of them?

 

I assume its a BT line, if so compensation varies between whether the line is residential or business, start by raising a complaint with BT and when that (inevitably) goes nowhere, approach the regulator. (more scope for compensation if the line is a business line and you can provide supporting evidence of losing work)

 

In terms of broadband, also living in a remote area, we used to have ADSL which synced at just under 1mb, not brilliant, but usuable. The snow and wind 2 years ago brought the line down and when BT re-connected it, they had re-routed it which made the line too long to support ADSL!

 

I had no choice but to go with a satellite solution, i'm now with a company called  "tooway" I'm on the 2nd up from the basic service - 20mb download speed, 6mb upload, download quota is 20gb / month during peak times, but unlimited overnight. Only downside is it costs a bit more than ADSL (£40 per month), it can suffer from dropouts during snow or thunderstorms, but compared with the sporadic ADSL service we had it has been superb 

[chaseracer]

  On 13/10/2013 at 20:40, Bobthebeard said:

Arrrgh.!!

 

This has GOT to be one for Trading Standards. If they haven't been shut down...

[Bobthebeard]

  On 14/10/2013 at 09:44, cort16 said:

Ouch! Is this the one you bought with recently restored sills?

The very one! The guy I bought it from ( a good friend, and all round decent bloke ) bought it in good faith believing the work had been done properly. He is going round to have a word with the garage that did it! He was pretty cross. He has asked me to send the section of outer sill that I cut out to take with him and confront the garage. We will see...

'Twas just expertly applied filler over stuck on patches. No welding at all.

 

Meanwhile I have bought several sheets of Zintec steel and some more gas for the MIG. Happy days.

[Tetleysmooth]

 

  On 14/10/2013 at 06:31, Tetleysmooth said:

I should have made this a thread all of its own.

I went back to the 'urgent care centre' again yesterday, told the nurse behind the window that I'd been there in the morning, about 5.30am, and I'd been booked in already, and if I came here later, I'd be seen straight away. You guessed it. Not booked in. Start all over again. The place was rammed. I told the nurse I'd go to my dentist in the morning. All she said was 'Yeah, ok'.

God bless Queens Hospital, Romford.

I reckon I could get a bar of gold bullion easier than a course of antibiotics.

Yay, that's the end of that!!!

Went to the dentist today, and he pulled the offending tooth out.

I didn't think they could do that with an infection, but apparently they can.

End of a very frustrating saga.

[cort16]

It's worse when you buy something you think is solid and it turns out to be rotten. If you buy something rotten at least you expect the worst. Do these have dirt traps around the sill areas as the sills and wing bottoms are the only bits you seem to see rotting out on them?

[Bobthebeard]

  On 14/10/2013 at 11:17, cort16 said:

It's worse when you buy something you think is solid and it turns out to be rotten. If you buy something rotten at least you expect the worst. Do these have dirt traps around the sill areas as the sills and wing bottoms are the only bits you seem to see rotting out on them?

Having bought my original 944 knowing it needed new sills etc to restore myself, must admit I did assume this one was solid. Came as a bit of a shock after some poking around.

Anyhoo, having learned to weld acceptably and do all the necessary repairs on the original car, this one will hopefully be an easier* task! Although it does look to be in worse condition.

No real dirt traps as such, but they do seem prone to water/moisture in the sills and rust horribly from the inside out in those areas after twenty years or so. Even though the cars were galvanised.

Fair enough I suppose.

[Junkman]

  On 14/10/2013 at 11:39, Bobthebeard said:

Having bought my original 944 knowing it needed new sills etc to restore myself, must admit I did assume this one was solid. Came as a bit of a shock after some poking around.

Anyhoo, having learned to weld acceptably and do all the necessary repairs on the original car, this one will hopefully be an easier* task! Although it does look to be in worse condition.

No real dirt traps as such, but they do seem prone to water/moisture in the sills and rust horribly from the inside out in those areas after twenty years or so. Even though the cars were galvanised.

Fair enough I suppose.

I'm a bit surprised, because yes, those are galvanised, so I always presumed rust isn't a concern with these.

Then again, the zinc coat isn't really a protective layer, it just serves as the sacrificial anode. Once used up in certain areas, they probably rot there worse than any Alfasud.

[Junkman]

  On 14/10/2013 at 15:03, watanabe said:

GS sale is going brilliantly*

Is it on Ebay now, and if yes, where is your unashamed self-promotion?

[ShiteRider]

  On 14/10/2013 at 15:03, watanabe said:

GS sale is going brilliantly*

Could be worse mate, BMW has a date with the with the cutting torch friday :'(

[skattrd]

Wat - the GS has only been for sale for a couple of days.

It appears to me that anything that isn't "megabarg" takes a while to sell ...  my Saab 900 took months before it eventually sold.

 

I have decided that the HPE needs to go and I'm not expecting that to be sold in 2-3 days. That reminds me, I need to wash & photograph it for the advert.

[Negative Creep]

104 watchers and 0 bids on the 944 so far. Awesome*

[phil_lihp]

Car selling seems to be a strange thing right now.  A £60 Metro attracts only insulting offers, a £100 fully functioning, MOT'd Rover attracts barely one interested party on each of the 3 occasions it's been offered and even on here there's a plethora of cheap, sub-£500 practical and roadworthy cars which are not finding homes, either on here or elsewhere.  It's no surprise that anything closer to £1k which promises to need further investment isn't finding a new home quickly.  That's no downer on the GS or 944, they're both good cars which are probably well worth the asking price to the right person, I suspect however that that right person, while still out there, is a harder chap to find than he was before.  Maybe old cars are scaring off the general public who now expect the computerised safety of a relatively modern car.  It can't be that everyone is broke from the recession, that surely would produce the opposite effect given the price of these cars.