Geez! I hate that! - Page 172

Citroënbender · 27-07-2023, 06:08 PM

I always say of a job “The last twenty minutes takes four hours” to summarise late discoveries which challenge timely completion.

This Alfa is true to form, it’s hatched a misfire which I reckon is coil packs. I’ll clean the plugs tonight but not optimistic. If I’m lucky, the fellow at Cromer will have some OEM Bosch available tomorrow morning. Genuine boxed are $500 apiece over the counter at Alfa dealers, and there’s four of them… Car leaves my hands by tomorrow evening.

Citroënbender · 27-07-2023, 11:07 PM

…True to form, the flat spare was not five years of being ignored but a fractured brass shell in the valve stem.

Who’da thunk it? 9PM and there I was on the workshop bead breaker to get enough clearance for replacing it.

.:4:. · 28-07-2023, 10:39 PM

I had 1 thing to do today. My mum is overseas, my brother and sister had to work, same as my aunty and my 3 cousins. Other then my grandma, I was the only other with the free time. So it still is my grandpas 97th birthday. Reason why I didn't make it down to visit was that lovely sweet sweet smell of coolant.

Citroënbender · 01-08-2023, 10:08 PM

An honourable mention to Valeo alternators with the stator bedded in RTV.

If you need to R&R the stator, it takes 20 minutes of perseverance, then some cleaning up to remove nearly all the silicone. Then you sit the stator back in the front shell, carefully checking and marking its alignment. Next - there’s a fine rubber ring about 1mm across by 3mm tall - you need to poke this evenly down in the front housing around the stator until it registers on the bottom of its machined lip. This centres the stator, and you now fill the tapered gap between it and the front housing with new neutral cure RTV.

I honestly doubt in most usage conditions, that it’s any better than a regular setup where the stator is just roughly clamped into the housings by bolt tension. These alternators compare poorly to Mitsubishi of the same era, for serviceability.

Citroënbender · 07-08-2023, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Bureaucracy.

I’m trying to return a toll tag issued by the (soon-to-be) ex-wife of Crash Bunny; it was in the damaged car I bought off him. She has left the state, and judging by the odd messages I’ve received out of hours, possibly the planet.

You’d think I could walk into a service NSW office and hand it over the counter? Nooo… You can’t even turn one in as lost property! They flat-out refused to accept this tag, citing that because I acknowledged myself as a “non authorised person” they couldn’t take it from me. (I wonder if you can hand in a lost licence?)

Sure I could just throw the tag in the rubbish, but then if she closes the account a $40 deduction would be made for the missing item. That equally doesn’t sit well with my morals.

The Service NSW position is now more flexible, pressure was strategically applied by inquiries and staff can now accept “tag returned by non registered user” at their discretion. Just as you can hand in a licence found lying on the ground.

Itsme · 08-08-2023, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender

The Service NSW position is now more flexible, pressure was strategically applied by inquiries and staff can now accept “tag returned by non registered user” at their discretion. Just as you can hand in a licence found lying on the ground.

Anything I find is handed into the nearest police station, much easier with no hassles.

randel · 08-08-2023, 03:22 PM

I bloody hate customers that make a booking, agree to a time, dont turn up for their booking cos they slept in, then proceed to give me a 1 star google review because i couldn’t get them in later in the day…..

**FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0** · 08-08-2023, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by randel

I bloody hate customers that make a booking, agree to a time, dont turn up for their booking cos they slept in, then proceed to give me a 1 star google review because i couldn’t get them in later in the day…..

Yeah, that'd suck! Is there opportunity to reply to their rating to explain the circumstances from your end?

randel · 08-08-2023, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0

Yeah, that'd suck! Is there opportunity to reply to their rating to explain the circumstances from your end?

Yes, have done so. Still doesnt help your overall Google ratings tho!

Tonz · 09-08-2023, 09:59 AM

try talking to google

or an IT expert, I thought there was somehow you can remove comments under certain conditions

marty351 · 09-08-2023, 11:33 AM

I always check the lower reviews to find out why. More often than not it's the customer that caused issue.
If doctors and other professionals charge for missed/cancelled appointments, maybe reply to disingenuous reviews with a kind disregard for the review. A customer can screw you once, a bad customer will screw you twice.

randel · 10-08-2023, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Tonz

try talking to google

or an IT expert, I thought there was somehow you can remove comments under certain conditions

Google won't get involved unless legal action has been initiated.

We just reply to the review. Most people would read the reply and make their own mind up.

In 1 case a person gave us a bad review, then took us to consumer affairs. We provided documentation and video evidence to absolutely 100% clear us, consumer affairs guy was happy we had no case to answer. I told him I felt sorry for him dealing with these people all day every day. I asked him if he could then make the person remove the negative review, No sorry, he can only ask them to

I guess at the end of the day 99.9% of people/customers are great - it's just the .1% that can **** your day up

randel · 10-08-2023, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by marty351

I always check the lower reviews to find out why. More often than not it's the customer that caused issue.
If doctors and other professionals charge for missed/cancelled appointments, maybe reply to disingenuous reviews with a kind disregard for the review. A customer can screw you once, a bad customer will screw you twice.

Yes sometimes better to let sleeping dogs lie

Citroënbender · 10-08-2023, 09:29 AM

Lollipop (Chordettes) earworm.

roKWiz · 10-08-2023, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Lollipop (Chordettes) earworm.

Why ???

Citroënbender · 10-08-2023, 10:22 AM

Absolutely no idea, it popped into my head while unloading at Kimbriki, and has lingered since.

roKWiz · 10-08-2023, 12:46 PM

Can't get you out of my head.........nah nah nah......nah nah nah nah.

**DFB FGXR6** · 10-08-2023, 08:20 PM

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Can't get you out of my head.........nah nah nah......nah nah nah nah.

Lah lah, not nah nah!

Citroënbender · 10-08-2023, 10:03 PM

Talking Kylie, I’d like a T-shirt that said “impossible princess” just to wear into the Plumbers’ CoOp.

**DFB FGXR6** · 10-08-2023, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Talking Kylie, I’d like a T-shirt that said “impossible princess” just to wear into the Plumbers’ CoOp.

Oooo, that wouldn't go down well.

roKWiz · 11-08-2023, 09:39 AM

Half **** pictures posted online, taken in portrait mode.

FFS turn the phone camera 90 deg.

randel · 11-08-2023, 09:51 AM

Or videos taken in Portrait mode - I cant watch them

ford71V8 · 11-08-2023, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by randel

Or videos taken in Portrait mode - I cant watch them

There is a clear change where this is now more acceptable due to how many people are watching crap on their phones. Portrait content for portrait device.

Still ****s me.
Landscape is natural. Our eyes are not on top of each other, they are side by side.

roKWiz · 11-08-2023, 12:36 PM

Tik Tok Tik Tok

ford71V8 · 11-08-2023, 06:09 PM

Gutted.
Spent hours over 2 days trying to secure Paul McCartney tix only to miss out.
Adelaide Ent Centre - 8000 tix - **** me.
Disappointed and annoyed.
And now ABC radio talking up how great this one will be being indoors and small crowd.
*Radio Off*

(this emoji reminds me of Slowsnake)

marty351 · 11-08-2023, 07:50 PM

Vegans only!

jaydee · 11-08-2023, 11:43 PM

Had to be evacuated from our hotel at midnight in Lucerne Switzerland.
Idiot 2 rooms down was drying clothing on a lamp which caught fire.
Alarm going off, I take a quick look in the hallway, lots of smoke and people running for the stairs.
Grabbed my back pack, wallet, phone and passport and bolted.
Fire brigade rocked up, all sorted, back to bed an hour later.
Couldn't sleep of course.

.:4:. · 12-08-2023, 12:34 AM

I pulled my finger out yesterday and stopped procrastinating. Now i have nothing to complain about.

Citroënbender · 12-08-2023, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by jaydee

Had to be evacuated from our hotel at midnight in Lucerne Switzerland.
Idiot 2 rooms down was drying clothing on a lamp which caught fire.
Alarm going off, I take a quick look in the hallway, lots of smoke and people running for the stairs.
Grabbed my back pack, wallet, phone and passport and bolted.
Fire brigade rocked up, all sorted, back to bed an hour later.
Couldn't sleep of course.

I thought that only happened in Montreux? ;-)

MITCHAY · 12-08-2023, 04:31 AM

I have somehow managed to brick my laptop during an Ubuntu update. Usual process is to create a startup disk and boot from USB. That didn't work so did inplace upgrade and same ****.

I know it's something to do with the video card because I can login via terminal and the boot splash is new but after a hundred commands later no dice so going to try to go back to Win7 then try again to reset it again.