Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[shiftin_gear98]

Owch.

Mine, they drove my bike off in a van today.
Officially bikeless - apart from all the SV bits clogging up my garage.

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

Owch.

Mine, they drove my bike off in a van today.
Officially bikeless - apart from all the SV bits clogging up my garage.

horrible feeling

You can ride but don't have a bike, I have bikes but can't ride - cast comes off next week, so; soon (hopefully).

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by timwilky

I had a small accident with my compound mitre saw a couple of weeks ago, whilst it was only skin, the bone on a finger was exposed. reason trying to cut a very small mitre and holding the wood too close to the blade as I could not fix a clamp as so small.

So lesson leaned I have been looking for a table saw. Whilst I usually buy Dewalt, the small saws only have a 8" blade so opted for a Makita 2704. FFS they don't come cheap, but with a finger still having a hole where the skin is still missing, neither do new fingers.

So shopping around and I can get it 50quid cheaper than anywhere else and there seems to be shortage of 240v I hand over the card details and advised it will come Tuesday.


Just had the phone call...Mr Wilkinson, this is Travis Perkins. About your web order...Heart starts to sink, they are going to say a price mistake online...No, Makita say none in the country for at least 4 weeks.

Gripe, I have a job to finish, a painful finger and back to using the mitre. Carefully.

I find Travis Perkins are utter ****e, there's always a problem every single dealing. Did quickly google that saw though and it does look to be unavailable.

I've got a big einhell mitre saw, it's crap (.) compared to a Makita but it does clamp to a table ...and has a guard (albeit flimsy)

[svenrico]

'Just had the phone call...Mr Wilkinson, this is Travis Perkins. About your web order...Heart starts to sink, they are going to say a price mistake online...No, Makita say none in the country for at least 4 weeks.'
Just as a matter of interest but where is it coming from ?

[svenrico]

Not really a gripe (I hope ),because although it will be some inconvenience BMW are doing the work free of charge, but got a recall letter today for my BMW 1 series car for some fault with air conditioning/heater that could lead to a fire ! My car doesn't have air con' ng but it is 09 reg and nearly 12 years old ! Taken them a long time to discover that fault hasn't it ?!
ps was surprised when I got the car that it didn't have air conditioning, I thought BMW''s had all the bells and whistles !

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by svenrico

'Just had the phone call...Mr Wilkinson, this is Travis Perkins. About your web order...Heart starts to sink, they are going to say a price mistake online...No, Makita say none in the country for at least 4 weeks.'
Just as a matter of interest but where is it coming from ?

Japan, probably been shut down for Covid, 240v seem to be totally out of stock. I could go 110v, but carrying the transformer is a pain.

[shiftin_gear98]

12 bids and counting. It didn't take long to for it to get on Fleabay.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

12 bids and counting. It didn't take long to for it to get on Fleabay.

Don't worry I'm sure AdamEf will be the highest bidder by now

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by svenrico

ps was surprised when I got the car that it didn't have air conditioning, I thought BMW''s had all the bells and whistles !

The BMW 'extras' list is infamous - you get basic car with 4 wheels and an engine, everything else is an extra at added cost....... with a Jap car you get pretty much everything with the basic car.

[DJ123]

Originally Posted by SV650rules

The BMW 'extras' list is infamous - you get basic car with 4 wheels and an engine, everything else is an extra at added cost....... with a Jap car you get pretty much everything with the basic car.

Not as bad as a Porsche. Literally everything is an optional extra.
There was a review i saw the other day and the model was a GTS variant or something like that and yet you still had to pay extra to get the 'GTS interior' on the GTS model!