Shane

Below is a copy of a letter that won a competition in UK as complaint letter of the year...have a laugh and read on. Probably a re-post but I was sent it today and it made me smile. letter sent to NTL (to their complaints dept....) Dear Cretins, I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up foryour 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During thisthree-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I hadnot previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidityof monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details,so that you can either pursue your professional perogative, and seek torectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office: My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website....HOW? I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes- an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later,although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools -such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate your internet server's downtime is roughly 35%... hoursbetween about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers. I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off);that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman...and several other variations on this theme. Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustration's in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me,therefore, if I continue. I thought BT were shit, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of godawful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom - wankers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees. Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats. John

It's a common error, but you see more and more of this type of mistake being made. Is it because we all use spell checkers and auto correct and then become lazy when it comes to spelling? One thing that always makes me cringe is when you use Dartford crossing. There is a sign in each lane with "Violent or abusive behaviour will not be tolerated, will be prosucuted". Someone left out "offenders". You would think that someone in the proccess of requesting, designing, production, approving and fitting would have corrected it Muppets.

Yeh well so do I mate, but the Missus moved out, then the South African pissed off back there and now the latest has started weight watchers! I wanted some advice on worming them, the chickens that is not the birds although ........

Probably mate, you will have plenty of time to roll up, skin up or whatever, either while it's in the garage, or you are working to pay to keep it on the road.

Rob, I am sure if you look on ebay you could find a magnet that you strap on your fuel line too, will save you a fortune in fuel bills you know. Apparently they come with test reports from NASA to prove they work.

I do hope that the winning bidder is not a forum member!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOYOTA-SUPRA-NON-TURBO-PERFORMANCE-CHIP-ADDS-25-BHP_W0QQitemZ120052961324QQihZ002QQcategoryZ38786QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

No smart answers please, I have chicken comments all day at work and sure I have heard anything you lot can come up with! Interested if there are any forum members that keep Poultry as a hobby or even proffesionally?

Mine had this problem too, every joint on the pcb was dry. re-soldering everything did the trick.

I have been looking at this too recentley and this is what they say on another forum "The ECU will also need to be fooled into thinking there is no boost as it will not work if it sees boost pressure through the MAP sensor". Sadly it does not tell you how to do this though! This was in the tech part of mkiv.supras.org.nz

We had the same problems, loads and loads of times. But I deal with BT on a daily basis at work and they too are crap, and at home giving Talktalk a try and although so far reliable, their customer service too is rubbish and in bangalore or somewhere. Took six calls and some emails to get them to correct an error on my address and they still manged to send the modem out to the wrong address!

Like most makes of cars, I am sure there are as many dogs as there are good ones. Toyota too have made a few dogs in their time dont you think? But have to say over the years I have had quite a few Vauxhalls, and in fact still own one. I have always found them to be pretty reliable and more to the point if used as the thead originator intended, as a runabout, they are fixible cheaply and easily when they do go wrong. When they introduced the first FWD models in the 80s they changed the way most big manufactuers went about building cars. I have a corsa diesel dog of a van but although it looks a heap it is great. I have abused it on the worst Eastern European roads you could imagine, run it on Parifin, vegie oil and every different colour of heavy oil you can think of and it has been good to me. I can pick up bits from my local breakers nice and cheap and generally speaking there is not much you cant do yourself at home, and I believe the Calibra is much the same. My bird runs a Tigra and apart from a few little probs with the ECU warning light, had no probs at all in 3 years. In fact we just put it through a MOT and went straight through, 100K+ miles on the clock. Done little in the way of servicing since she bought it, think I did the cam belt, filters and changed the oil when she bought it, and only had to change the rear wheel bearings and plug leads since. She drives from kent to mine in Northants most weekends and went on a road trip to France in the summer. I reckon, and I base this on the ones I have owned, Vauxhalls are pretty reliable. Had a few fords and they have all been total crap as were manyof the others I have used. Probably regret saying this, but reckon a Calibra would be a great daily drive car, sorry guys. Mind you, I was born in Luton, home too of the PA cresta and loads more GM heaps!!

My eldest had a couple before getting his WRX. Both nice cars and spares readily available. If you go for the 8V you can pick up engine parts from most breakers as it's a common engine used in loads of Vauxhalls and Opels. So with that in mind they have the reliability of say an astra which are reckoned to be reliable. Go surprisingly well I always thought as well. He had a decat and a nice exhaust and fitted a whopping induction kit with various cold air feeds from the front spoiler which really seemed to make a difference over the stock air box. Also another nice touch, these are fitted with headers as standard. But I would say that £1500 is a bit rich. He flogged his for a grand and had loads of stuff fitted, 17"s, lowering kit, leather interior, boot loader all the usual stuff and it took a lifetime to sell, although the guy who did buy it travelled 100s of miles as he wanted this one. So I guess its horse for course and all that stuff.

Yes, thanks Mikey, realised that. hence why I said doing it via the cooling hose. Have read loads of threads about doing it and that various methods. I did something very similar on my last autobox fitted to my 635 and replaced the filters while I was at it. But in this case my questions were related to the types of fluid and trying to avoid mixing them as well as the Dextron ii and iii thing as well. I had read in other threads that dextron should never be used in our types of boxes and then discovered that my dipstick had dextron embossed into it suggesting otherwise. So, with all this information I guess the only way to be sure is to play safe and buy 15 litres of type iv and do the complete drain. That being the case it will probably have to wait now as I realy don't want to be doing this outside at this time of year.

OK cheers, think I will have to do a complete drain via the cooling hoses and then fill up with new fluid once I have decided what to use. There is no point in me losing the sump 1 litre or so and then topping up with Typeiv, Dex2 or 3 as I have absolutely no idea what is in there already. Spose it come with the territory of buying a jap import with no service history... At present I have nice tight changes and the fluid on the dipstick appears red and clean, so I can research it a bit first before deciding. Thansk for the advice, will let you know how I get on.

Oh, and you are wearing blue jockey shorts, and you shave with a window to your left hand side. Bye from Sherlock WTF is that all about Chris??? Anyhow I have a window both ends of my bathroom and I shave a little as possible, from Watson! Thanks guys, I am sure you are right. I have known for a while now the pads are right on the edge and am waiting for some new ones I bought of a member fo the forum to arrive. I do have a set that I got from Chrissz to put in and plan to do that this weekend or on Monday as i have another day off work then. Will check the fluid afterwards. Thanks again.

For a little while now I have noticed that occasionally after I have accelerated hard the warning light comes up. At first I thought it was when I braked but that is just coincidence. I noticed last night it came on twice as I slowed down, whether I braked or not. It only flashes for a second or so and only after hard acceleration. I have a day off today and this morning armed with my bit of wire looked for fault codes stored but there seems not to be any. Any suggestions what it might be? This may be a clue, I have noticed it only tends to do it early on into a journey. Never does it after say 15 /20 mins. Strange.

OK great thanks. But are we saying that it will be ok to use Dextron III as a top up after a sump drop mixed with whatever is in my box now? Or should I do the whole flush drain thing which TBH I wasn't planning on doing just yet?

Ok thanks for that. So as Dextron II is no longer available I can use Dextron III ? Also how much more power can the NA gearbox take before I run into problems? If for example I went NA-T am I going to have problems with my transmission, especially if it's using Dextron?

Thing is, if you read the Toyota service brief it clearly shows that you shouldn't mix Dextron with Type IV. If mine has been filled with Dextron as the dipstick would suggest, then according to the service bulletin I shouldn't use the type iv.

I have been searching and reading the various threads regarding ATF and seen this also: http://www.scionlife.com/misc/tc003t99.pdf But when I checked my fluid I noticed that the dipstick has "Dextron II" embossed on it. From what I have read Dextron should never be used. Wasn't really thinking to carry out a full flush so now I have no idea what fluid to use. Was hoping to drop the fluid in the sump and then top up. The box still has the fluid it came into the uk with so obviously I dont know what type it is. My local gearbox place said that Dextron is fine and if they were to re-build these transmissions they would only use dextron and when I told them about valves clogging and other bits I have read on here they dissmissed it completely! What do you guys reckon?

I have always used Europecar and had no complaints, but I have never hired one here in the UK. Guessing though that they are all much of a muchness regardless of where they are. All three cars off the road, that's bad luck (or bad driving)

It has happened to my girlfriend twice this year, once on her debit card and once on her credit card. We at first thought it must have been from using it on the internet but then discovered from someone in her block of flats that it had happened to several people in the block. We can only assume it was rubbish trawling scum. In both cases she got everything back, but also in both cases her cards were cancelled from the first call to the bank and new ones issued.

There is an IBIS in Wellingborough, it's not in the town centre but on the A45 about 10-15 minutes ride from Pod. Also a couple of smaller family run places in Finedon. Let me know if you need the details, I should be able to find them pretty easily.

Thanks, it seems that the adware uses this .exe and this is activated on boot up. This is how it seems after reading up on it anyhow. Since the AV software identified and quarrantined the malware it seems to be ok. At work at the mo, so proof will be when I get home this eve and boot up again.

Been thinking about doing this myself, how did you did you do it and what sort of a job was it?