Rant of the Day v2.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5341 Post by 4mastacker » Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:25 pm

Only wanted to book me car in for a service and MOT. Simple request which should have taken only take a couple of minutes. Took the best part of 12 minutes because the jobsworth berk at Honda insisted on asking all sorts of bloody questions before he would confirm a date and time. Told him all I wanted was an appointment, but he said he had to follow policy before he could check the diary to see which slots are available. Then he went on about making sure I place the car's service record on the front passenger seat, the locking wheel nut was positioned in the correct place in the car for their technician, that I should remove all personal effects before bringing the car in, I mustn't arrive too early, I mustn't arrive too late, etc etc. Never had this problem before when I spoke to one of the ladies in the service department to book the car in.

This is the last service under the Service Plan I took out when I bought the car. Next year I'll go elsewhere to get the car serviced and MOT'd.

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#5342 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:25 pm

A short has developed in the living room;s electrical circuitry. ~X(
Breaker pops but don't know what is causing it to trip. :-??
Ceiling fan/light, 3 lamps, porch light, TV and cable box, and DVD player on circuit.
Will try process of elimination to isolate offending device. An electrician will be the next option but I really don't want to move bookcases, entertainment center, etc, to expose outlets.
Don't know if an electrician can sort it out with a meter. :-?

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#5343 Post by OFSO » Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:54 pm

Problem with an earth leakage breaker is all devices can be within limits but it's cumulative. So you plug the devices in one by one, suddenly breaker trips and you think Aha! that's the one that's faulty. It's not. It's the sum total of all that's gone before. Been there, done it.

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#5344 Post by Hydromet » Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:58 pm

OFSO wrote:
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Problem with an earth leakage breaker is all devices can be within limits but it's cumulative. So you plug the devices in one by one, suddenly breaker trips and you think Aha! that's the one that's faulty. It's not. It's the sum total of all that's gone before. Been there, done it.
...or, as was the case in my workshop, it can be a dud CB.

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#5345 Post by OFSO » Sun Jul 25, 2021 5:55 am

They do get weaker with time...

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#5346 Post by Hydromet » Sun Jul 25, 2021 6:16 am

OFSO wrote:
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They do get weaker with time...
Don't we all. =((

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#5347 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jul 25, 2021 6:59 am

Hydromet wrote:
Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:58 pm
OFSO wrote:
Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:54 pm
Problem with an earth leakage breaker is all devices can be within limits but it's cumulative. So you plug the devices in one by one, suddenly breaker trips and you think Aha! that's the one that's faulty. It's not. It's the sum total of all that's gone before. Been there, done it.
...or, as was the case in my workshop, it can be a dud CB.
OFSO is correct and so are you.
It was the first place I would have looked and the last placed the electrician looked. As I had insurance I left him to it.
I had already isolated the fault to Cooker On OK. Kitchen On OK. Both on Tripped. He eventually concluded an earth fault on the cooker that had been wired up by the gas man.
I was already starting to look for a new cooker when he decided to check the RCD. It was broken in pieces, possibly from new, and held together by the junction box. New trip and as they say, Robert......

First indication of failure was a trip if there was an electrical storm anywhere on the grid.

The other thing, national company don't use local traders so he didn't know where to get a new RCD; fortunately I did.

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#5348 Post by OFSO » Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:17 am

We invariably get trips as thunderstorms (I can just about remember the last one, not to mention rain) come by as we have overhead three phase into the house and the wires act as antenna soaking up the pulses sent by Thor.

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#5349 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:44 am

There are actually many lightning strikes per day, every day. There is an app that shows the strikes in UK. In our case we had massive local lightning that had no effect yet minutes later, as the storm moved off, a distant strike caused a trip.

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#5350 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:38 am

So Tom Daley is proud to be a gay Olympics Champion. So why is him being gay relevant? In my youth I was proud to be a heterosexual junior County Fencing Champion (Foil) but unlike him I didn't emphasise the sex element. WTF has Daley's excellent achievement got to do with who he prefers to poke on a Saturday night?
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#5351 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:12 am

Just had our DPD moment. They have 3 options for delivery but the missed us. Really! Apart from us being in, the builder's merchant unloading a load of stuff, our builder being there, and nothing accept them on the security cameras, I look forward to their excuses.

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#5352 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:20 am

CharlieOneSix wrote:
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So Tom Daley is proud to be a gay Olympics Champion. So why is him being gay relevant? In my youth I was proud to be a heterosexual junior County Fencing Champion (Foil) but unlike him I didn't emphasise the sex element. WTF has Daley's excellent achievement got to do with who he prefers to poke on a Saturday night?
I agree C16, totally pointless making a big deal about such things..

About as useful as me telling you all that am I proud to be a lesbian, in a man's body, who represented his school in the Transvaal tiddlywinks championship in 1975 and lost in the final. =))
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#5353 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:25 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:12 am
Just had our DPD moment.....
Very unusual for DPD. They have never failed us even in the snow or recently with closures on our 10 mile road when others such as Hermes and Yodel gave up without trying. When I've complained about those latter two companies to businesses that I've ordered from, some have said please phone in future and we'll send your parcel by DPD.
DPD, DHL and ASDA all due here in the next two hours.
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#5354 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:50 am

I think the problem is the Satnav. When we moved here 3 years ago we were not on the map. I complained to HERE and they fixed it PDQ. Several drivers haven't bothered to update.

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#5355 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:54 am

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Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:50 am
I think the problem is the Satnav. When we moved here 3 years ago we were not on the map. I complained to HERE and they fixed it PDQ. Several drivers haven't bothered to update.
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#5356 Post by ricardian » Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:43 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:44 am
There are actually many lightning strikes per day, every day. There is an app that shows the strikes in UK. In our case we had massive local lightning that had no effect yet minutes later, as the storm moved off, a distant strike caused a trip.
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#5357 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:28 pm

CharlieOneSix wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:38 am
WTF has Daley's excellent achievement got to do with who he prefers to poke on a Saturday night?
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#5358 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jul 27, 2021 2:49 pm

Actually it is Mrs Tom. 😆

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#5359 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jul 27, 2021 2:51 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:50 am
I think the problem is the Satnav. When we moved here 3 years ago we were not on the map. I complained to HERE and they fixed it PDQ. Several drivers haven't bothered to update.
I contacted the sender and had a moan with the chat bot. They came back and delivered just now

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#5360 Post by Magnus » Tue Jul 27, 2021 3:13 pm

£99 for Merc to update our satnav maps (Garmin). Stuff it; I know where the new M8 section is, even if the satnav moans at me about "recalculating".

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