sive s Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Yes! Agreed! Jumping up and down on the standard BMW wrench usually works for me Tried doing that . Wont move. Few months ago I had the extended one and snapped it off. Lol. The bolt was too tight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sive s Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Yeah they take the piss . Pure laziness . But I will be getting a compressor generator soon. So will pay extra and get the torque gun with it. Need the compressor for respraying things. Good investment. Even my dad likes it as. He dont have to go to the petrol station to put air in( tire gauge ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuBeeDoo Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) Something which really irritates me . Is when you take your car to a garage. They put brakes on. And also by doing this they have to take the wheel and bolts off. The issue is when they put it back on the car. They always have a habit of over tightening it. So when it comes to takng the wheels off. I struggle to take the bolts. Even with me using all the force. End up having to go to a garage and asking them to make them lose. Which I have to pay to do this. Hassle and pisstake. Next time, i will ask them to hand tighten it. Rant of the week. Change your garage! Windy gun to remove wheel bolts. Wheel brace, then torque wrench (100nM on BMW alloys) to tighten. Edited August 28, 2014 by StuBeeDoo TOOM and sive s 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pauly123 Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Wee fannies sive s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob- Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Parents of little future slags who let their 14 year old daughters hang round the local shops smoking ciggies wearing next to nothing. Obviously their fathers have walked out on them because I'd be 6ft under before my daughter walked round in public with her arse cheeks on show. Shameful. sag2, X-Man, StuBeeDoo and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob- Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 RE garages using correct torque settings; I understand some jobs need the exact torque but could you imagine if they had to look up the settings for every car they worked on? Not a lot would get done. I'd say they use their best judgement, which is good enough in most cases. marc l, L4nky808 and sive s 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sive s Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 RE garages using correct torque settings; I understand some jobs need the exact torque but could you imagine if they had to look up the settings for every car they worked on? Not a lot would get done. I'd say they use their best judgement, which is good enough in most cases. True. But rather ask them to do it the old fashioned way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das_flo Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 I curbed a wheel in maccys drive thru tonight, I feel like punching myself in the face, absolutely gutted. Rota do pots of colour matched paint, but it's £16. What a f**king rip off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob- Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Hammerite until the inevitable refurb lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bungers Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 I curbed a wheel in maccys drive thru tonight, I feel like punching myself in the face, absolutely gutted. Rota do pots of colour matched paint, but it's £16. What a f**king rip off. That's not that bad considering you probably paid ~£5 for a salt/fat induced McHeadache? L4nky808, StuBeeDoo, sag2 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuBeeDoo Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 RE garages using correct torque settings; I understand some jobs need the exact torque but could you imagine if they had to look up the settings for every car they worked on? Not a lot would get done. I'd say they use their best judgement, which is good enough in most cases. I 100% disagree. You pay them to do a job and you expect them to do it properly. Overtightening wheel nuts/bolts is inexcusable. I would have thought that most, if not all, manufacturers specify a very similar setting for alloy wheels. For one thing, what is constant extreme pressure doing to the wheels.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlpearce Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 I curbed a wheel in maccys drive thru tonight, I feel like punching myself in the face, absolutely gutted. Rota do pots of colour matched paint, but it's £16. What a f**king rip off. Serves you right for being a chav and hanging out with the boy racers in the suped up clio and saxo's yo Back to the wheel nuts/bolts - none of you ever heard of a breaker bar. Paid £10 for mine and aside from a hub bolt there is nothing it cant undo sag2, StuBeeDoo and L4nky808 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Man Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 I'm not sure who is worse? The T0ssers who wait to the last second before cutting into a queue? or The useless tw@ts who let them in? Chimp Choker, The_Judge_, sive s and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das_flo Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 I curbed a wheel in maccys drive thru tonight, I feel like punching myself in the face, absolutely gutted. Rota do pots of colour matched paint, but it's £16. What a f**king rip off. Serves you right for being a chav and hanging out with the boy racers in the suped up clio and saxo's yo Lol cheeky bastard, out treating my lad and bonding more like. Wish I hadn't have bothered now, that happy meal made me far from happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BmEagle Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 (edited) Tried to find the old parking rant thread but this pic sums it all up. No wonder bmw owners get a bad rep. The berk in the merc next to it was almost as bad. Edited August 29, 2014 by BmEagle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimp Choker Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Fook all wrong with that www.bobsbmw.co.uk BmEagle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docz2K9 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Had eggs thrown at my car last weekend just after i washed it , now had some other sticky sh*t thrown all over it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sag2 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 They would give you a parking ticket where I live for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Daddy Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 f**k you EU....f**k THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION.....f**k THE NEW EU ENERGY LABEL.... "WE WILL FIGHT YOU ON THE LANDING STAIRS,WE WILL FIGHT YOU IN THE LOUNGE AND THE KITCHEN,WE WILL NEEVERRR SURRENDER...." If like me,you love your DYSON,the write to your MEP and protest at yet another unwarranted intrusion into our live`s.Before DYSON,vacum cleaners were s**t,mo farah would have been gasping for air after a full house clean,then DYSON came along and what a f**king fantastic invention...a cleaner that actually sucked up all the dirt with ease,and now this corrupt,debt ridden,pathetic bunch of freeloader`s are banning anything over 1600 w power in a few days time,and that will drop to 900w(Katie price has more powerfull dildo`s FFS) by 2017. Its a f**king laugh,they worry about energy use whilst every week the whole European parliament sits for half the week in brussles,then moves enmasse 100 miles down the road to Strasbourg....how much energy is that wasting every f**king week.... I wont vote ukip next year but I can understand why people will...... sive s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B0B Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 (edited) I just sold my Dyson..... .......i thought I may as well as it's only gathering dust I will get my coat. Edited August 30, 2014 by B0B sive s, The_Judge_, Sonar Daddy and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimp Choker Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 A man has just had surgery after getting a hoover attachment stuck up his are. It's OK though and he is picking up well www.bobsbmw.co.uk Sonar Daddy, sive s and B0B 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Man Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 These hoover jokes really suck! B0B, sive s and Sonar Daddy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BmEagle Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 Bought the mrs a brand new bag yesterday with a matching belt too. She hated both. Ungrateful cow At least the hoover Works properly now sive s and Sonar Daddy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob- Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 RE garages using correct torque settings; I understand some jobs need the exact torque but could you imagine if they had to look up the settings for every car they worked on? Not a lot would get done. I'd say they use their best judgement, which is good enough in most cases. I 100% disagree. You pay them to do a job and you expect them to do it properly. Overtightening wheel nuts/bolts is inexcusable. Of course it is, but you only tend to get cowboys in places like kwik fit and the likes doing things like using windy guns on wheel bolts. What I meant was, for example, if they used 130nm on every car wheel bolt that came in then that woulnt be the end of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoohBore Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 NATO Summit coming to an inappropriate hotel this week. I saw more police today going past the venue than I have in the last year. Massive fences to stop car bombs and lots of unmarked police vehicles everywhere. The nearby caerwent training base has a shed load of military vehicles in it although it doesn't start till Thursday, so it's only going to get worse. What a stupid venue, why don't they meet on an aircraft carrier in the middle of nowhere, the rest of us can then get on with our lives in peace. To top it all the kids go back to school Monday and then they will get 2 days off because of traffic congestion! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk when it bloody works properly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
