The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[Kim]

Cycles as mobility aids is a whole other rant, of course...

[Torslanda]

OK, so the front passenger seat seatbelt warning light sometimes doesn't. Or when it does it shouldn't. And the seatbelt pretensioner warning light is about as decisive as an indecisive thing after a severe beating about the head. And the front passenger airbag warning light lies.

I take the front seat out and untie all the magic anbaric knots and retie them and put the seat back. Result? NFC

Send cage off to cage repairers. They plug in their guru which says Body Control Unit is borked. That will be £518 to replace all in says the guru operator but we have to order the thing as we don't hold it in stock so we can't fix before Wednesday at the earliest. I says OK, I'll pick the car up in a mo. He says fine but you will have to pay for the part in advance as it is a SPECIAL THING.

I arrives at the cage repairers and the guru supervisor says hello here is your car. That will be the cost of the part plus £60 for the honour of us telling you you have to spend over £500

You mean you aren't including the diagnostic cost in the cost of the repair?

No.

Money grabbing wankers.

I hope, for their sake, that they have discumknockerated the seat sensor and checked the wiring continuity because if they haven't I don't think we will need the medium of yacf.co.uk to gauge Fuzzy Rtd etc's response to 'We've changed the body control unit and the fault's come back!'

If a car dealership is suddenly engulfed in an enormous fireball . . .

[David Martin]

You need someone else to go in "Oh yes, my mate the ex special forces chap with the $car. He gets really annoyed when garages screw up. Wouldn't want to be that mechanic."

[hellymedic]

Our burglar/fire/panic alarm went off tonight for no reason.
Panel stated 'Fire Zone 12'
We had NOTHING going anywhere to trigger LOUD NOISE.

Monitoring centre phoned and I told them nothing other than alarm was amiss. Suggested ventilating offending upstairs smoke detector.
Alarm went silent while David was in bathroom, only to go off again when I walked to loo downstairs.
Alarm stopped after a few minutes.

Worry is it could resume at any time.

[Canardly]

Sat here in full cycling kit watching the rain lash down. Soon to be changing back again. 

[davelodwig]

Sat here in full cycling kit watching the rain lash down. Soon to be changing back again. 

Rule#5?

I decided to go out in the rain mostly because there is no where to park at the bank. Once I was out it didn't seem that bad and skin is mostly waterproof anyway.

D.

[Cudzoziemiec]

If you're taking a whole trolley full through the basket only/small number of items queue, then you are abusing the system, whether you have a disability or not. If your trolley only contains a few things, then reasonable people shouldn't mind one way or the other. If the staff and system are reasonable, that should help engender reasonableness in customers too. I know some places use the phrase 'Express till', perhaps to avoid this whole conveyance and number issue.

[Mr Larrington]

I would have used the self-service wossnames but I had an item with a security wossname on it, and attracting the attention of the lackey at the s-s tills is only slightly harder than Doing It while standing in a hammock.

[Bledlow]

"Female policewoman killed in second Paris gun attack" 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11332148/Police-officers-targeted-in-second-Paris-gun-attack.html

[Mr Larrington]

Just be grateful the Torygraph didn't refer to her as a "Wopsie".

[Mr Larrington]

Damian Grammaticus, not only are you nowhere near the Champagne region but you should also do something about that five o'clock shadow before appearing on national television.

I've often wondered whether he is married to a woman called "Anna".

[mcshroom]

Do Irish people not do camping?

I'm trying to plan a route along the East Coast from Rosslare to Belfast, but there's hardly any campsites anywhere, and those that are around seem to be shut  in mid-March when I wan't to go

[mcshroom]

I've had enough. I'm going to look at touring through Wales instead

[Gattopardo]

Pub carparks and verges...

[fuzzy]

OK, so the front passenger seat seatbelt warning light sometimes doesn't. Or when it does it shouldn't. And the seatbelt pretensioner warning light is about as decisive as an indecisive thing after a severe beating about the head. And the front passenger airbag warning light lies.

I take the front seat out and untie all the magic anbaric knots and retie them and put the seat back. Result? NFC

Send cage off to cage repairers. They plug in their guru which says Body Control Unit is borked. That will be £518 to replace all in says the guru operator but we have to order the thing as we don't hold it in stock so we can't fix before Wednesday at the earliest. I says OK, I'll pick the car up in a mo. He says fine but you will have to pay for the part in advance as it is a SPECIAL THING.

I arrives at the cage repairers and the guru supervisor says hello here is your car. That will be the cost of the part plus £60 for the honour of us telling you you have to spend over £500

You mean you aren't including the diagnostic cost in the cost of the repair?

No.

Money grabbing wankers.

I hope, for their sake, that they have discumknockerated the seat sensor and checked the wiring continuity because if they haven't I don't think we will need the medium of yacf.co.uk to gauge Fuzzy Rtd etc's response to 'We've changed the body control unit and the fault's come back!'

If a car dealership is suddenly engulfed in an enormous fireball . . .

You may jest......

Picked car up last night. Started engine, pre tensioner warning light refused to go out

[Wascally Weasel]

Our burglar/fire/panic alarm went off tonight for no reason.
Panel stated 'Fire Zone 12'
We had NOTHING going anywhere to trigger LOUD NOISE.

Monitoring centre phoned and I told them nothing other than alarm was amiss. Suggested ventilating offending upstairs smoke detector.
Alarm went silent while David was in bathroom, only to go off again when I walked to loo downstairs.
Alarm stopped after a few minutes.

Worry is it could resume at any time.

Could it be a low battery in the sensor?  Mine goes off in those circumstances.

[Kim]

You'd hope the panel would report 'fault' rather than 'fire'...


While we're on the subject, my mystery chirping has resumed.  (It went on hiatus over Christmas on account of snot-induced conductive hearing loss).

[hellymedic]

Our burglar/fire/panic alarm went off tonight for no reason.
Panel stated 'Fire Zone 12'
We had NOTHING going anywhere to trigger LOUD NOISE.

Monitoring centre phoned and I told them nothing other than alarm was amiss. Suggested ventilating offending upstairs smoke detector.
Alarm went silent while David was in bathroom, only to go off again when I walked to loo downstairs.
Alarm stopped after a few minutes.

Worry is it could resume at any time.

Could it be a low battery in the sensor?  Mine goes off in those circumstances.

All batteries were replaced when system was serviced last month...

[Torslanda]

OK, so the front passenger seat seatbelt warning light sometimes doesn't. Or when it does it shouldn't. And the seatbelt pretensioner warning light is about as decisive as an indecisive thing after a severe beating about the head. And the front passenger airbag warning light lies.

I take the front seat out and untie all the magic anbaric knots and retie them and put the seat back. Result? NFC

Send cage off to cage repairers. They plug in their guru which says Body Control Unit is borked. That will be £518 to replace all in says the guru operator but we have to order the thing as we don't hold it in stock so we can't fix before Wednesday at the earliest. I says OK, I'll pick the car up in a mo. He says fine but you will have to pay for the part in advance as it is a SPECIAL THING.

I arrives at the cage repairers and the guru supervisor says hello here is your car. That will be the cost of the part plus £60 for the honour of us telling you you have to spend over £500

You mean you aren't including the diagnostic cost in the cost of the repair?

No.

Money grabbing wankers.

I hope, for their sake, that they have discumknockerated the seat sensor and checked the wiring continuity because if they haven't I don't think we will need the medium of yacf.co.uk to gauge Fuzzy Rtd etc's response to 'We've changed the body control unit and the fault's come back!'

If a car dealership is suddenly engulfed in an enormous fireball . . .

You may jest......

Picked car up last night. Started engine, pre tensioner warning light refused to go out

Fuck! Now I need a new laptop . . .

 . . . or at least a way to get the coffee out of this one.

I'm sorry but it's taken me good 5 minutes to stop laughing!!!!

[Torslanda]

BTW the pretensioner is probably on the seat belt reel in the bowels of the B-post and (probably) unaffected by the anbaric string on the seat.

Give 'em absolute hell! 

[Kim]

BTW the pretensioner is probably on the seat belt reel in the bowels of the B-post and (probably) unaffected by the anbaric string on the seat.

Why would they do that?  It would mean that important MOT-failure warning lights wouldn't come on in response to transporting a chewy dog in the passenger footwell one time.

[Polar Bear]

The wiring loom would in normal circumstances be completely concealed behind trim panels and thus not immediately vulnerable to chewy dogs and inquisitive children.

[Kim]

Exactly.  No lucrative repair costs there.

[T42]

Funny that it's called a loom when it's more akin to the product of one.

[Canardly]

I've had enough. I'm going to look at touring through Wales instead

I know you have changed your mind. See if you can find Gordy's round ireland trip thread, as of a couple of years ago, very informative.