Daily Moan

[Joe 90]

My moan is that on day one of my lockdown pond project, I put my back out digging and shifting stone.

I intend to to dig out by shovel alone, a 6feet deep x 10 feet x 8 feet Zen oasis with Koi and gnomes

[Loy Toy]

I wake up most days with aches and pains from the previous days physical work.

At present I am tiling the inner surfaces of the kitchen cupboards and having to work on my knees and twisting and turning inside cramped areas is quite difficult.

Anyway on to the wall tiles now so a lot easier.

[Shutree]

I wake up most days with aches and pains from the previous days physical work.

At my age, I wake up with aches and pains from walking around the garden.

[AntRobertson]

I somehow managed to sprain my ankle during sleep the other night?!

[Edmond]

Did me right wrist unsuccessfully trying to stir shit. :/

[Shutree]

My moan: The local Mitsubishi main dealer.

My old truck gets an annual service, against the native wisdom that if it ain't broke don't fix it. I like to know that everything has been looked at and things like the cam belt get replaced when due. A bit pricey but the old truck has behaved impeccably. Until now.

I drove away from the recent service and realised the clutch was giving out. It was fine on the day I dropped it off and not fine when I picked it up. I don't know what they could have done, maybe it was just chance. So I had to go and get a new clutch fitted, not by them. Then I found that the idle speed had been set too low, it was struggling to idle at all. So we went back to the shop and told them to fix it, which they did, under guarantee. Still a day out of my life and also the life of the gf who has to take me there and back.

A couple of days later and there is a puddle of brake fluid under the truck. WTF! I had told them to check the pipes and they said they had. Probably they poked at them hard enough to make a pinhole. So, very, very carefully I drove it back to the dealer who inevitably claimed it was normal wear and tear. Big moan because they told me they had checked it a couple of days before. Never mind, they can fix the pipe but it will take two days because they only get pipe from Mitsubishi and have none in stock. Shrug.

Then, this morning, two days having passed truckless, they called to say Mitsubishi have no brake pipe and it will take them TWO WEEKS to order it. Sense of humour failure. The gf told them to go forth and multiply, then go to the local shop which is full of goddam new brake pipe. No, they only can fit the magic and unavailable-in-Thailand Mitsubishi pipe. Oh, and there is no brake fluid in the truck now so the only choice is to leave it with us for TWO WEEKS while we sit on our smug arses waiting for a piece of pipe identical to the pipe in the shop around the corner. No, that's not going to happen.

This morning I got the local bloke with a tow truck to visit Mitsubishi, tow away my truck and leave them only with the choicest words you can think of in the Isaan language. The current status is that I not only remain truckless, I don't even know where it is or who is working on it or how much it will cost. Mai pen rai, it will all be fine.

As for the Mitsubishi dealer, let's just say they'll not be seeing me again.

[Saint Willy]

As for the Mitsubishi dealer, let's just say they'll not be seeing me again.

And to be honest, the dealer doesn't give a fuck.

Best to escalate the complaint to a country or regional level.

[cyrille]

Best to do what he's done, wait for his truck and move on in every sense, imo.

[Edmond]

Forget it and take it as a lesson. Don't let a local do any sort of maintenance you can do yourself.

Even if your skill level is unscrewing the radiator cap and wondering what to do next. It's still one point ahead of what a Somchai mechanic knows how to do.

[strigils]

Shutree, what KW said. I find it impossible that spare pipe doesn't exist in Thailand. Get your mrs to phone BKK / HO and speak to them, ask them to track some down. If its in Thialand then its a day to get to you.

[Shutree]

Shutree, what KW said. I find it impossible that spare pipe doesn't exist in Thailand. Get your mrs to phone BKK / HO and speak to them, ask them to track some down. If its in Thialand then its a day to get to you.

The gf just sent me a message. Wherever the truck is, Mr. Somchai has already fitted a new brake pipe. She wasn't specific, I am rather assuming that they have refilled the brake fluid too. I can collect it when she takes me there after work.

Which means my time at home with nothing better to do than post drivel on TD is nearly up. Much to readers' relief, I am sure.

[strigils]

^ 555, never cesaes to amaze me how random things can get in Thailand, keeps your guard up and bullshitometer calibrated.

[OhOh]

The local Mitsubishi main dealer.

Has I suspect, a contract to fit, by a certified Mitsubishi trained mechanic only Mitsubishi supplied spares.

Your gf found a local mechanic who either bought a non Mitsubishi part or bent and flared a standard brake pipe. Which may or may not perform as well as the Mitsubishi part.

Inspect your brake fluid level to confirm you and your passengers safety. It will soon become apparent.

[Shutree]

Has I suspect, a contract to fit, by a certified Mitsubishi trained mechanic only Mitsubishi supplied spares.

Your gf found a mechanic who bought non Mitsubish parts or a bent and flared standard brake pipe.

I am sure you are right. So any Mitsubishi owner in Thailand who needs a new brake pipe this week goes carless.

My after market brake pipe will sit nicely alongside all the other after market parts that make up an old truck, when I drive it home - tonight.

If they had apologised and given me a 2-week free test drive of something then all would be well. They didn't and it isn't.

[cyrille]

Has I suspect, a contract to fit, by a certified Mitsubishi trained mechanic only Mitsubishi supplied spares.

You'll be telling us next that 7-11 don't sell Big C cat food.

[David48atTD]

Forget it and take it as a lesson. Don't let a local do any sort of maintenance you can do yourself.

Even if your skill level is unscrewing the radiator cap and wondering what to do next.

Agreed, that the radiator thing-a-ma-gig can get pretty tricky

So I does me weekly Sunday check of the vehicles.
My mechanical experience is inflating the windscreen to 32psi when the wipers need new blades.

[baldrick]

and here I thought brake tube came in rolls

[Dillinger]

After two days of an amazing 20 plus degrees here in March, I was eyeing up a Welsh beach for this long Easter weekend.


Fuck you Jesus

[strigils]

Come south Dillbert, its bright and sunny, sonny.

[Dillinger]

South Wales, where all the pubs are open, boyo?

[strigils]

^ roll past me and get on Brighton beach in ya mankini, bring a thick picnic blanket tho as the beach is sand is large and so is the bulge in the women's bikini bottoms.

[Joe 90]

A full day toiling outside, umping and lumping.

I feel as if I've been run over by Dills bus.

[BoganInParasite]

So the local arsonists decided that the evening of our hottest and most polluted day this year (yesterday) would be a good time to burn the ridges of the next couple of river valleys to our north...beyond the two they burnt two weeks ago.

[OhOh]

Brighton beach

as the beach is sand

Hidden under a layer of seaweed, rocks and sharp pebbles.

Plus the London ladies, with or without bulges.

[strigils]

^ you can almost hear Norman Cook.....