What's pi$$ed me off today.........!!

Two things....Struggling big time with the training tonight and having a go at one my fitters then realising it was my cock up! Still, I did ring him and apologise. Sooner this week is over the better I hate feeling like shit with no good reason! I should know better at my age!

 

Chipping the freshly finished paintwork putting the chair in the car...

Oh well, entertained me for a week and cost an exuberant amount of money so not all bad.

 

Brief ammendum, pulling into Gatwick short stay there's a clunk and the a banshee like howling from the fan belt (yeah, again), I suspect the middle exhaust rubber has melted and the drop is putting a bit of strain on the engine altering the angle of the pulley slightly. Squealing all the way to Dartford from zero up to about 40 (so just made that as short a time frame as possible ).
Leaving the tolls it slipped all the way up to about 55, then there was a whiff of burnt rubber but the noise has stopped!

 

Surely the weight of the exhaust wouldn't alter the angle of the engine on its mounts by much? The mounts are used to much greater weights than that (unless they are loose/fractured, and the engine weight is on the exhaust mountings)!

 

Exactly ny fear, my dear man. Engine mounts are the only things not replaced to date... All will be revealed later today.

 

I assume you have checked the fan belt alinement..... back in a former life ,when i ran Minis, I seem to remember problems with mounting lugs on replacement Alternators having different thicknesses from the original OEM ones.

 

This is actually belt #3 since I got the car, the first was 5years old without use and fell apart, #2 was the wrong size (too small) and promptly gave up under stress. This one is the correct size and was adjusted on the loose side by the RAC guy (a little tentative I assume) which I tweaked up the other week, it ran fine for a few 100 miles and only last night started being problematic.

I'll give the alignment a good look when I open the bonnet later, at this point I'd just like a journey not to have a series of repairs following it

 

no telly went off last night.cleared the ice off the dish. 2 boxes not recieving signal

 

Same for me lastnight. Cleared the dish this morning and its ok now

 

yeah i had to do same thing and its working ok now

 

Trying to run my wife into town in her Land Rover (Discovery Series 2) this morning only to find the battery was way to flat to even turn the engine over. Bail out, remove dog, dig out Subaru from two feet of remaining iced-up snow; insert dog (looking pained, because it was f f f freezing inside) and start engine; set to scraping away.

Taxi-driving duties and dog walking completed, returned home thinking to jump start said Discovery. Engine still wouldn't start. (Leads connected to correct terminals? Check. Vehicle in neutral? Check).

Recent experience on bike with recalcitrant immobiliser leads me to suspect the same might just be the root cause in the car too. It was then I noticed that the plippers on the key fobs were not having any effect upon the car - it is was as though they were from a different car. Because I'm a man, I left looking in the Hand Book until now: there is a complex procedure entitled 'Emergency Key Activation' during which you shut all the doors, put the key in the driver's side door and enter an unique four digit code by turning it to the right; allowing it to centre and repeating that number of times to equal the first digit. Then turn to the left and allow to centre for the second digit and so on. Then wait exactly five minutes after which you have a 30 second period only to jump in and start your now un-immobilised vehicle.

I looked elsewhere for this vital code, which the Hand Book exhorts the delighted new owner in several places to memorise and or keep in a safe place. We've had it from new, and I'm sure I'd remember if it was ever given to us. I checked all the car documentation upstairs - not a trace.

I looked on the Net, and found that in North America you can use your unique code OR 1515 which opens them all, apparently. I tried it, expecting no joy.

I was not disappointed. There was indeed, no joy. No, "Dacka, Dacka, Dacka... Broom..."

I called the AA. I know this makes me a miserable, incompetent git with barely enough testosterone even to brush his own teeth, but electrickery and me shouldn't ever be linked, and I knew it was a mistake buying a Landie with so many power this and electric that widgits on it...

The nice man from the AA (named John) couldn't fix it either. Perhaps the problem isn't my levels of testosterone after all.

I telephoned Harwoods in Tonbridge - Service Reception tapped at a calculator and told me the code (which may be four numbers, except they ain't single digits!) and I've just been able to start the car.

Now the plippers aren't working and need to be reset so they talk the same language as our car GGGRRRR!

 

Yup, that's progress.

 

While out in the car today I had a new V8 Range Rover, heavily tinted glass, breathing down my neck, at about 20', for miles, with no opportunity/need to overtake as we were all at the 60 limit on a busy single carriageway. Just when I was thinking how small his cock must be & was considering jerking the handbrake to test his reactions (& then mine when he'd have rammed me soon after ), SHE overtakes, then of course has to slam on. So...what do you call a woman with a small penis?
Seems to me that it's not always the type of car but any car driven by certain types, same as bikes. Strange though how some people allow themselves to change when behind the wheel of usually big vehs, seeming to enjoy the feeling of intimidating others. Despite having had 5/6 large 4x4s myself I never felt that way. And No I don't have a big cock.

 

You shoulda just slowed down to 5 mph, really pisses em off

 

Yeah, done that before.