What's made you grumpy today?

[StevenRB45]

A combination of now working peak travelling hours and road works literally bloody every where...

My 2 week speed average..19mph.

Actually looking at Hybrids (some good deals on the Ioniq currently)..I spend so much time rolling at walking pace in 1st gear it would make sense. Poor car is doing just over 30mpg.

 

[varesecrazy]

My phone logged me off the forum.

Took me a while to reset password and get back.

Could be worse..

Could get live updates from a Citroen forum

 

[puntofan01]

Could be worse than that: could be updates on a ford forum!

 

[Schumi2001]

My local handbag shop built me a working spare key for £45.. see its not all Cobblers where I live.

I think I could have got a copy of the key for that kind of money, but the 3-button remote keys are only available from Stuttgart and you need all sorts of documents, including a hand-written letter to request new keys!

Plus, of course, diagnostics time to delete old keys and programme in the new keys.

Good thing, I suppose, is that it makes it almost impossible to steal, with 2 layers of security (remote key and transponder chip).

 

[Liquid Knight II]

It looks like I'm going to have to report my Punto Sporting stolen.

Twenty eight days ago it was collected by Shiply (no fault of theirs and the driver was not complicit or in any associated with the theft) with the promise the car would be paid for within fourteen days.

No money or offer of the cars safe return so the car has been stolen by deception.

Anyone offered it or parts from it do not buy let the Police know by calling 101

Yellow Mk1 Punto Sporting with black multispoke alloy wheels, and a crudely tack welded section of drivers side outer sill; reg'- V514 JHJ last known location Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.

DO NOT BUY IT

...or any parts from it.

 

[Liquid Knight II]

All sorted now. They thought I was bluffing. :devil:

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

I think, for what I've just witnessed, grumpy is much too mild a descriptor. Disbelief, incredulity, depression are words that better fit!

Got up at 07.30 this morning, as usual. Put the kettle on and went through to the living room to open the curtains. Our living room looks out to the front of our house and, as we have open plan front gardens (a mixed blessing), we have an uninterrupted view of the road. Our house is on the inside of a sweeping bend so as you go past our house, at this time of day and with the sun low in the sky, you go from shadow into full on sunshine. This morning there was a hard white frost on all the cars and gardens.

As I was about to turn away from the window a large, older model, Audi saloon (maybe an A8?) appeared from the shadowy side and swerved a little whilst braking hard as the sun hit his windscreen. The driver wound down his window and stuck his head out as he started to move again. It was then that I realised that his windscreen had not been cleared at all and was 100% opaque! As Frankie Howard would have said, My flabber has never been so gasted as when I saw him continue on down towards the main road! I shall be very warily watching out for him in future.

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Thanks PB. That's my opinion too. To be specific the box does work in the respect that it's only the Humax that can't communicate. According to my friend though this is not the "fault" of the Humax but because the new router locks out any attempt to reconfigure.

I'm going to ring the very helpful Humax tech people tomorrow before making any decisions.

Well, turns out The Humax people are bending over backwards to help. How refreshing in this age of indifference! I've been in both telephone and email communication with them. The latest email has included a detailed description of how to set up the ports and talks about WiFi encryption protocols WPA, WPA-PSK(Tkip), WEP etc, etc. All double dutch to me so I will have to consult with my pal up the road. I am just so impressed with Humax's attitude. I suppose it's in their interest to get to the bottom of this, and I'm keeping them fully updated, but they could have just abandoned me when a simple fix was not found - after all it's not their device which is at fault.

In the meantime I've had a bit of luck. I was down in the Ocean Terminal Mall the other day when I was accosted by the Sky sales team on the concourse. Afraid I got a bit annoyed with them and this attracted a few passers by. All of a sudden a Sky Hub SR 102 (the one before the latest one but much newer than my old one) appeared and was offered to me for free. "Why don't you try this and if it works just keep it" It doesn't do the super fast transfer and dual band stuff that the Q hub claims but if it works that'll do me! Going to try it at the weekend.

 

[Schumi2001]

It looks like I'm going to have to report my Punto Sporting stolen.

Twenty eight days ago it was collected by Shiply (no fault of theirs and the driver was not complicit or in any associated with the theft) with the promise the car would be paid for within fourteen days.

No money or offer of the cars safe return so the car has been stolen by deception.

Anyone offered it or parts from it do not buy let the Police know by calling 101

Yellow Mk1 Punto Sporting with black multispoke alloy wheels, and a crudely tack welded section of drivers side outer sill; reg'- V514 JHJ last known location Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.

DO NOT BUY IT

...or any parts from it.

Just read this! What actually happened? - sounds pretty much like an age old escrow scam.

 

[portland_bill]

A horrid growling noise outside. A kid up the road has a Mk3 Astra with a fat exhaust, so lots of growly noises. Lowered suspension, skinny tyres, tinted windows, but apparently broken as it was being loaded onto his stepdad's recovery truck. Sadly it still runs, so rather than winch it on, they had to keep revving it. Taken around half an hour to load it onto the truck. Feel I'd like to shoot them.

My mother used to say, "The size of the exhaust represents the gap between their ears." Sadly, mostly true.

All gone now, hopefully to be scrapped, rather than mended.

 

[Liquid Knight II]

Just read this! What actually happened? - sounds pretty much like an age old escrow scam.

Just the usual deposit disappearing act. Dog ate their homework etc.

Sorted now, they thought reporting the car stolen was a "threat" until they found out I've had to do it before.

Needs some wheels for your 75?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264189615261

 

[Schumi2001]

Just the usual deposit disappearing act. Dog ate their homework etc.

Sorted now, they thought reporting the car stolen was a "threat" until they found out I've had to do it before.

Needs some wheels for your 75?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264189615261

Won't fit - phase II 75s are 5 stud and have a larger centre bore.

 

[Liquid Knight II]

Won't fit - phase II 75s are 5 stud and have a larger centre bore.

Beautiful. I miss my 33 Giardinetta 4x4



Still being restored in Holland apparently.

 

[DaveMcT]

I live on a short private road not much wider than a footpath that looks like it could be a rat run around the main road 100 yards away. Thanks to Google, we get about 10 cars a day zipping down and then oh so carefully reversing out again.

This morning we had one at 07:30 just as as I was setting off for work.

 

[StevenRB45]

It is quite amazing how many people surrender thought and reading the road to sat nav. It's advisory if you don't agree ignore it and it'll recalculate...

On that note following a woman in an old Astra this morning on my commute. Now she was going slow enough that the guy in the Polo behind was dropping
back then accelerating up my arse full belt...then dropping back. Now it's half term, roads are quiet I'm not in a hurry to work so whatever..until we pull onto a road with temporary traffic lights on it. From the moment you turn onto it you can see the light, it's green. So getting within 50 yds of it she's slowing down...ok benefit of the doubt it was green when we arrived perhaps she's expecting it to change. ok we're down to 15 miles an hour.. I'll start positioning myself in the oncoming lane to go through the light..and she's stopped at green light.

At which point I may have lost my **** a bit, it's rare I use the horn as I drive defensively so don't tend to find myself in situations where a crash is imminent and it wasn't today but the absolute lack of any observation of anything really annoyed me..and while I could have breezed past and left her sitting at the green light you just know she'd have realised that she was stationary at a green and driven into my passenger door...

 

[DaveMcT]

An aggressively but also at times hesitantly driven Golf GTI was in my way today. He was up my back window then getting in the way in RH lane as went by a van. We came around a bend to green traffic light and he stopped! WTF! RH lane clear, so I just went around him. We were then onto a dual carriageway 50 limit with average speed cams and he was at it again. Utterly incompetent at best. Downright dangerous IMO.

I doubt he was "impressed" by my 100HP and looking for a race. It's covered in mud and has a standard Panda front bumper in the wrong colour.

 

[StevenRB45]

An aggressively but also at times hesitantly driven Golf GTI was in my way today. He was up my back window then getting in the way in RH lane as went by a van. We came around a bend to green traffic light and he stopped! WTF! RH lane clear, so I just went around him. We were then onto a dual carriageway 50 limit with average speed cams and he was at it again. Utterly incompetent at best. Downright dangerous IMO.

I doubt he was "impressed" by my 100HP and looking for a race. It's covered in mud and has a standard Panda front bumper in the wrong colour.

Given I was complaining about people stopping at green lights yesterday...perhaps we missed a memo.

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Daughter, husband and their two children are staying just now, till Saturday, think we'll survive it! Anyway, making breakfast this morning when said husband calls out, in distress, "Help the shower's packed in" went upstairs to find him covered in soap, thankfully with a towel round his waist! He had to run a bath to get "desoaped". Our shower is a mains pumped bar shower which has filters on the input to the pump. Of course, being as I always look for the worst scenario, I started off by isolating the water feed and dismantling the feed pipes - only to find completely clear filters in both hot and cold feeds! so after another 20 minutes of contortions under the bath I had it all back together. Water back on and----- damn, still no go! But it did "kick". The pump has a flow switch which has to experience a minimum rate of flow under gravity before it will kick in and run. Took the shower handset off and held the hose end in the bath to give a bigger gravity "drop". Turned it on and nearly got soaked the flow was so great! I've never run it with the the handset off before - a fireman would be proud of it! Took the handset to pieces, which, of course is what I should have done first (but that would have been too easy for this idiot!) to find a veritable garden of mold growing inside. Cleaned out with bleach cleaner, reassembled and Voila! Why do I seem utterly incapable of seeing the simple solution first?

Then, clearing up from this watery mess I noticed the daughter of the elderly lady (who comes from my home town in the borders and who remembers me as a wee boy knocking over a pyramid stack of cans in the shop where she worked and getting a right leathering from my mum as a result) who lives in the bottom flat of the block across the road from us, going in with a commode. This worried me as we are very friendly and although old she's a fit game old dear. Turns out she's had a very bad fall with a break in her right shoulder, left leg swollen to nearly 3 times normal size and damage to her mouth all of which is making her almost immobile and reluctant to eat. Needless to say we, and other neighbours, are on 24 hour standby to help if we can. From previous experience I know this sort of thing is often the top of a slippery slope with pneumonia lurking in the wings to complicate recovery. She is a very popular member of our community so we are all very worried for her.

So, what a day! Don't want another one like this anytime soon please.

 

[portland_bill]

I noticed the daughter of the elderly lady who lives in the bottom flat of the block across the road from us, going in with a commode.

Horrid things commodes. Need emptying after each use really, which means help needed frequently. Or it can make the room smell horrid.

My partner is currently living downstairs, will be for sometime until physio gets her strong enough to try a prosthetic leg. I found a frame to hold a porta potti. So now have a porta potti (self-contained flushing loo) in a frame which gives support to the user, and allows it to be raised to a better height. Needs emptying once or twice a week.

So if their need is longer term, here are the details.
https://www.jacksonsleisure.com/car...-frame-ideal-for-elderley-and-disabled-users/
I added the optional backrest. Makes it stiffer and therefore safer. Bit of a juggle to fit though.
There's another frame on the market, from several suppliers, but they are poorly made and wobble.

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Thanks PB, I'll pass that on to her daughter who seems to be doing the majority of the caring today. If I've understood correctly, the daughter was telling me it'll be about 2 weeks, 2 WEEKS! before social services can asses her for support needs. This can't be right surely?