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Question, Can a re test be done at another garage ? I ask this incase this MOT ramp saga goes in and on a Tuesday doesn't happen Do my fails need to be done on an MOT ramp ? Mine were so called headlights high (dial switch in car) number plate faulty nearside track rod end

No call nothing Friday so on Saturday I rung then and was told the MOT ramps not been fixed and it's still up in the air. He said their calling out Monday so can I bring it Tuesday 2:30pm. I said can you not check the track rod end on another ramp he said no it has to be on the MOT ramp nothing else. I can't take it anywhere else I think for around 13-14 days to be tested or I would and claim it back. But the bit I'm annoyed with Communication A simple call as I requested to say sorry it's not been repaired. I asked for this and they would have left me in limbo. Regarding the air con ? I rang an independent guy who calls out re gasses and diags leaks. He said F1Autocentre fails to gas are one of his biggest customers. He said he'll get 2-3 a week from customers who've been told by an F1Autocentre (about 10 within 25mile of me) that they can't gas it for one reason or another and they could have. So I'm stuck, no car all weekend. Now some of you might say just drive it. I would but it wouldn't be me having an accident it would be the bellend who drives into me. This company F1Autocentres is the biggest shower of fuckin shit on the planet, do not use under any circumstance fuckin gobshites at Wigan

Yesterday I rang and booked it in for the re-test 9am then wife says did you book it Thursday or Friday?, as usual I couldn't remember so I rang them 8:40am. Guy says it's Friday but we've an issue the ramps knackered so weve got a guy coming out can you drop your car and leave it with us. I says no why don't you ring me when it's fixed I'll drop it. They might not turn up or not did it then I'm walking 3 miles for nothing. He then asked what did it fail on wondering if the ramp was needed bulbs tyres etc, mine was a track rod end so it needs the ramp. So I says "Oh and the fail said headlights high" I then says that was the dial it was on 4 it's never been on 4 since I bought the car 9 years ago someone moved that. His response was:- "Overtime with potholes your light can move, under the bonnet there's dials to adjust them let to right So I says ?? Left to right ? mine are fine or it would have said misaligned on the MOT but it said they were aiming high. So now I've got to sit about all day Fri waiting for them to fix the ramp.

So I admit there was faults 1) there's 2 reg plate lights, I honestly did not know, 1 was working so I thought it's working. 2) track rod end, I visually looked at it and the boot looked ok but I didn't pry bar it so I didn't spot there was play. Was it bad ? no but there was minimal play. 3) Rear light on the hatchback seriously missed that one altogether how? blame wife lol she went round it while I was in it 4) front number plate did have some discoloration but you'd have to be fuckin Stevie Wonder to not be able to read it. He said a B can a G ? I think the guy needs an eye test, again nit picking 5) the headlight beam high was a total utter load of bollocks and to tell me "Don't worry we'll sort that for free" is a Grade1 piss take. He must have thought I'm piss stone numb. I remember taking mine a garage nr me (never went back) he marked down view from front obscured so I asked him what , wipers or something It was a 2 inch smellie leaf tied tight it wasn't even dangling. New number plates arrived with screws and no holes in the plate, wtf is that about ?? Its got sticky back plastic and wipes fantastic great belting smashing but the old ones held on with screws so I can't stick it over it or I'd have removed the screws. I'm begining to think the worlds going fuckin stark raving bonkers mad. Everywhere you go some nobheads there trying to pull your keks down to dry bum you. Toilet seats knackered so spotted quick release one B&Q market place listed push button Free shipping £9:99 It arrives it's a normal seat, wife wanted one just push a button no old tooth brush to clean gaps. If I want a standard one I'd have gone to Screwfix 800 yard away. Now I have to sent it back for a tenner. Everyone's at it trying to make it more hassle than it's worth to fix or return.

Right well I got a reply from a manager who apologized for the fook up so no worries. He then offered a refund for the re gas a nice gesture. Now this was all before I took it for it's MOT which it failed. So one was a track rod end that had a bit of play but the rubber hood was not ripped so it caught me out. My reg plate had a bit water damage at the back so I knew it was touch n go but it failed. But the 2 things that really pissed me off was, the track rod end ?. You know were you stuck a torx in the top to stop it spinning ?. Something wasn't fookin right. The torx was rounded clean out and I mean rounded. At first I thought it's full of shite but no def rounded out. This to me looked like it had been tampered with. Can I prove it ? no but to be fully round not one point makes you wonder. And the other failure ? Get this, Both front headlights high beam, failed !!. So I says wtf is this ? Him thinking I know jack shit some old fella, he said yeah both beams are high. He said , yeah don't worry about it, we'll sort that for nothing. So me just wanting go the bog as I'd walked about 3 mile i just grabbed the sheet n fooked off. It was only when I got home I realised, the high beam is a 0-1-2-3-4 dial at the side of the dash along with the dashboard brightness button. Now this headlight dial ? . Never ever ever gets touched, never. When I got home it was on 4. I can't stress enough it never gets touched and it's not the wife she didn't even know it was there For me someone tampered with it 100000000000% and rolled the dial up to 4 to give it a high beam and a fail. My point is, any decent garage knows thisis a simple simple fix and just rolls it down similar to removing air freshener hanging off the mirror or dice. Then before he gave me the MOT he said £14:95 the re test. And not that he said he couldn't re-gas the AC there's a leak. When I took it for the MOT he said we'll be about 2 hours I said ring me I'll be UK town. 3.5 hours later no call I just went back and it was parked up no call. Seriously these lot are a fuckin shower of shit an absolute waste of space. When the area branch manager rung me he said the garage manager recently left hence the shop was up in arms. When I went to Eurocarparts 100 yard away to get a track rod I told the lad who I know about them he said why the fook did you take it there ?? I tells him about manager leaving, He said leave ?? yeah he left alright he got a lengthy jail sentence for some serious noncing and his son got banged up, he murdered a young girl. Anyway, I done most of the jobs just need a nail in tyre sorting and a new reg plate (weres the best place to buy one?). But I feel they tampered with the track rod and beam dial and no one can tell me any different. I think this area branch manager rang them first so they took it out on me I'll have the last laugh, the area branch manager has refunded me the AC goodwill jesture and I will get a refund via the garage because their was a leak. I will never ever take it there and looking at how many cars were on the ramps and parked up it seems to me their making a good job of fuckin it up

fooking fuming, I booked the car in for its MOT at F1autocentres not far from me (had a deal on), booking made online on the 1st May MOT + aircon re-gas. I booked it for 8:30am first appointment today 12th June so the wife's got car this afternoon as shes recently had a knee op and still in recovery mode so she needs it badly. I turns up the guy says It was yesterday m8 I says 1 min and I shows him the email clearly 12th June Thurs 8:30am He said I'm not sure how as we don't have a tester in on Thursdays never have done, Thursdays are blocked out on our system for MOTs, I says online isn't. He then says I tried ringing you yesterday cause you didn't turn up but it went straight to answering, so I says , did you leave a message ? he says no and I says why not?, I might have been driving m8, he just shook his head to say you got me there and not that, if he had of phoned I have still got a missed call on my phone. The day after I booked it back in May I thought I'll ring them just to see if I can bring it in for just the re-gas and leave the MOT till June when it was due. The guy said we can't split the booking ref. Then I made a bit of a joke about me originally wanting to book it on a Fri till I saw it was a Fri 13th which if your Mr Ringers you stay in bed that day. So when I phoned in May to split the booking the guy flipped up my booking as he asked for the ref and he still didn't mention no MOT tester in on a Thursday. So now the wife has to book an Uber to get to work at 12:30 and tomorrow is the only day free before the MOTs up on the 19th. And yesterday at 8:30am I received an appointment reminder email for the MOT. I thought F this I'm mailing them. I sent an email just to see if they'll give me money off or wavier the fee. So I mailed CC all their customer service internet complaints the lot. Then I gets a reply my apologies I have forwarded it on to the relevant department. So I replied, I cc'ed them all in in the 1st mail do you have a 4th department not listed?. If you fook up and you've made a mistake and you put your hand up fair do's or if the system screws up explain but dont say I phoned you when you didn't even leave a message. I only used them cause there was deal on and I saved about 30 quid. And now I'm taking it on the dreaded Fri the 13th

Yeah I've put it down to a bad day. To me it doesn't make it right that when you cancel a debit card say fraud or lost that subscriptions you signed up to on a monthly basis (cancel at any time not DD) using the 16 digit number, month start date and the 3 digit security that the subscription doesn't stop, it just carries on. I was told by my bank the Halifax that this is a normal procedure with certain subscriptions and Visa to auto carry on even after say you've lost that card and cancelled it. Now the woman at Halifax said this happens with a few companies i.e. Spotify been one then she mentioned Amazon ?? poss prime ? I don't know I don't have it. Just out of curiosity, has anyone else faced this were your subscription carries on after you've cancelled a card and I don't mean DD. There's that many subscriptions (28 day cancel whenever) to mention from Netflix to Sim onlys. Truth? I wanna know if their talking arsehole bollocks trying to blind me and I wouldn't mind knowing for future ref

I spoke with the Halifax twice and Urban Jungle. They both said the same, they said that when I signed up their terms state. Thing is, I thought I'd agreed to a direct debit like every insurance I've ever owned, a set period. Halifax said Spotify is the same, if you lose your card and you get a new card with new 16 digit it will automatically swap to the new card as Visa have an agreement with Spotify to carry the payments on. I don't own Spotify so if anyone does please confirm whether this is true or not. Because,like I said if this happens with Voxi SIM only that's it your switched off Urban jungle carried on taking payments even though that card had been dead for ages. Again sorry for repeating myself but, how if they don't have the new 3 digit security number and they don't have my account sort code?? Halifax said some subscriptions can do this. I've lost the money I know that I'm just trying to suss this out for future reference and whether it's true or not.

I was thinking that I'm just glad I spotted it now. That card thing for me is wrong. Like I said,my daughter's Voxi stopped the other month. She lost her card, she ordered a new one and forgot to update her payment details but when I lost my card it simply carried over to the new card without knowing it no questions asked. This must have been in the micro terms So what's the point of the 3 pin number ?. Ok never entered into direct debit so the only details they had was my 16 digit number Wrong for me

So the other year I took out insurance with Urban Jungle through a search engine then let it renew the year after because it was pennies different. Now I don't normally keep tabs on the banking ins n outs Mrs Ringers normally does that. So March it's due up (well thought it was) and I searches and found a similar building contents £8 a month cheaper so I thought cancel go with the new one. I tried logging in to Urban Jungle says forgot password, rest password,no reset lands. I then tries ringing, no one answering, so with only a day to go I cancels via an email leaving all my details urban jungle account and clearly states I do not want to renew. I then go on buys new insurance. 3 months down the line we both missed it (I know, I know) Urban Jungle had took 3 payments. We looks in direct debit section in our Halifax, no were to be seen. And this is were the nest of rats appeared. So Urban Jungle isn't a direct Debit it's a subscription, wtf !!. So then looks all their emails are in my junk. But, In Feb 2025 I received an email saying We failed to take £**.** from your account ending in 7567 (for no apparent reason) The day after ?, Thank you we took payment from your account. But the thing is my card ending 7567 ?,I lost that last April 2024 (the bank told me) so for the past 13-14 months I've used a new issue card ending 7444 but Urban Jungle still managed to carry on taking for 12 months on the 7567 even though I'd cancelled that card nearly a year ago. If I lose my card and Voxi go to take a payment for my SIM only monthly and I've not updated my Voxi card details it fails, no phone. But in the case of Urban Jungle they have an agreement with visa to update your card details with your new card details when lost. So 1) little did I know the fucker was a monthly subscription 2) Their terms say you can't cancel via email you must log in 3) they took 3 months and for 3 months I've been double insured. A few years back we had similar but we were refunded simply because we failed to cancel the old policy. But with this I've heard we won't get a refund simply because one is direct debit 1 is subscription I've now cancelled urban jungle but to make contact with then is a nightmare

I see your point but he never refused to top it up and it would be nigh impossible for me to prove anything dodgy. I just know it was either a short measure or in the first glass he used piss arse cheap n nasty gin, hence he went round the other side when I first ordered. Everything's costing a fortune these days and all's we expect is what we pay for. Couple this with shit expensive takeaway food it's no wonder pubs and takeaways are shutting down all the time. I got a pint of Estrella and omg it was like dog slash and 9 times out of 10 I can drink most lagers. Wtf is going on?, why is the quality going down while the prices just keep going up ?. Even Mrs Ringers said it's like everyone is trying to pull the wool

So me and Mrs Ringers and another couple went out Sunday for a few. Both women were on pink gin & lemonade so my round, orders drinks in a v.busy pub, the guy shifts to the side part of the bar out of view, gets the drinks, pays, sits down, that's it. Both women says "Can you taste gin?" they couldn't taste it. Now pink gin "should" have a very slight pinkish colour in the glass this was near perfect clear. I tasted it to me it was a like lemonade with a very very slight taste of gin. These were about £12-£13 for the pair. So I goes back bar with them to the head bar guy. Before I could explain it he just took both glasses out my hand and put a shot of gin in both as if he knew what I was gonna say. but, When I took these drinks back to the bar we'd had sat round the corner of the bar were the first guy originally went to pour the drinks out of my view. He then went round to the front of the bar were I bought them from and put 2 shots in from there. So why didn't he pour them from the front of the bar first time round ??. Fookin strange It was like they had a shit gin or short measure out of view, honestly. After he added a shot it was fine. Could it be they had: Shit gin round the back Good gin round the front ? I remember in the 80s a bar that use to stand glasses upside down on a tray with kitchen roll soaked in JD gin etc so when they shot the mixer in you get a hit off the side of the glass. Now I'm definitely not saying that was the case but something was not right.

I'd also like to point out out though, I'm not just ranting at the bad food as it happens to all of us dished up dog shit food it's the cost. The price of takeaway through the rising cost for owners makes it super expensive even for the basic food, just a joke. I think this is why corners are been cut. In our local rag they regular have hit list for worse takeaway hygiene ratings done by Gov. Some on that list are so called some of the best takeaways in and around Wigan. I just couldn't believe some were given a 1 out of 10. Not so long back about 2 weeks ago we ordered a Indian we had different meals. My wife was seriously ill for 3 days she never got out of bed, I was ok but like I said she had different from me. I can't think of anytime Ive been ill while making my own cross contamination from knifes and chopping boards been Uno No1. I cannot imagine alot of takeaways giving a flying fook when cutting up salad after using it just before for raw chicken. Na, I'm done, I don't even trust restaurants, I've been ill in the past, wife's been ill, shit warm ups and the price enoughs enough, time to cook my own from now on even if it's a case of lobbing a pizza in the oven with a few chips when we get pissed

Kebab Sunday is not northern thing just pissed and the munchies took over

The takeaway in question we've used the same one for years but I'm not sure if it's changed hands or their simply cutting corners warming up but that's the last time. Honestly, that's as bad as it gets for shite food. And the thing is we flipped a coin Chinese or kebab. Now the Chinese is in the town centre and I challenge anyone to get a better Chinese for the money plus they use their own driver. In future it's this and make my own using tongmaster off Amazon it's brilliant

Sunday gone the main road was closed near me so me & Mrs Ringers got in the garden, few beers cider till teatime. We couldn't be arsed cooking so we order a chicken, & chicken and doner from the local. Now before folk start off "You eating that shit !!" yes and have done for donkeys so we orders, hour later it comes Fook me ! Fook me in about last night's warm ups, chicken was dryer than Gandhi's flip flop and rock hard. Kebab meat the same, dry, hard, chips like 3" masonry nails and salad going brown. We rang them up had a rant not much joy bar an apology and discount next time to which I replied there won't be a next time. Now bare in mind we don't order every week I'd say once twice a month if we're lucky but this is the second one we've had in the past few months that's awful, the first one we just thought was a one off. Anyway after trying to pick at it it went in the bin bar the free garlic bread which was the only thing edible. But honestly £25 for that ?? joke. It was the missus's idea tbh as I said I'd cook something up but she insisted on ordering in and like I said before, after a few beers you just become lazy n think, Oh fook it. One more thing, I won't use Uber eats or any more these apps so the ones we use use their own drivers. But the standard of takeaway food has plummeted while the cost has shot through the roof but to be served up warm ups on a Sunday that was it for me, I'll make a butty next time before I'll pay for shite like that.

We have but honestly it's a fookin mare trying to get served even when it's quite then if you order via the app your sat there for ever waiting. I always make a B line for a spoons when out of town but ours is fookin sh*te.

It's just getting beyond the joke now. Me and the missus did a bog standard last curry other week nothing to right home about few sides, 2 wines 2 beers fookin 80 quid'ish !, I nearly shit me keks when the bill came and I'm not been funny but I could have made better myself at home. Missus keeps saying we don't do enough together and that's exactly why, we can't afford to. Everything we try to do cost bucket loads unless you spot 2 for 1 deals. Socialising is a thing of the past

Firstly I'm no tight coont when it comes to going out but yesterday, after the football me and a few m8's went for a few. Now I try to stick to one or two of the same drinks kinda helps with the bad head. First pub £5:50 San Miguel Second pub £4:50 3rd pub (get this) £7:50 Now I'm no tight arse but that is taking the urine. Then theres a pub small run down job selling it for £3:95 so from the dearest that's a £3:55 difference Put that on a round of 4 I paid £14:20 more than another guy. I went Liverpool few months back me and 2 m8's and I paid £27 for 3 Peroni draught and it was dog piss shit. It's getting to the point were an Uber nasty kebab and a few pints is £70 I did £70 last night so imagine you did that twice a week. Then I look back to when I was a young lad out 4-5 nights a week today's prices against wages you'd be living in a cardboard box eating out of food banks. No wonder pubs are closing left right and centre. My local which was always full 4 nights a week sadly closed and is been turned into a convenance store although there's a mini spar mini Tesco and 3 corner shops all within 800 yards of each other. But my rant is why such huge mark ups ?. My m8's son came along for an hour but he only drinks water. We ordered a tap water they tried to charge £1 for a glass till we argued. Sad times

I'm old school like plenty others, you cannot change your sex because you want to do. Your body genetically is either male or female. There was a case were a woman recently walked off from the world frizby throwing women's final because a trans was allowed to compete in the women's section. She will have a huge advantage due to having a stronger arm through all the w@nking

Up the road from me, self explanatory:-

It's probably best making Ringers rant Non political Non racial Non gender (bender bumboy) Non football Just daily piss me off things like : Why do supermarkets like my local big Tescos literally move every isle narrowing some isles to 4ft isle and making some 20ft wide, nothings were it was place is chaos

Not sure what you mean pal,

Nothing beats a good old fashioned thigh slapping pie joke, Traffic?, It all stems from Wigan Lane heading from the town up to Standish. Their replacing gas pipes on Wigan Lane and for some reason they keep putting up taking down temp lights. My wife's had a partial knee replacement Tuesday up at Wrightington hospital and I felt the full force of it especially Weds. I picked her up at 3:10 and got through the door at 5:15 for what is on a good day a 10 minute drive. What fucks me off is, theres a huge bus lane one side cycling lane on the other. For most of the day it's ok, then, around 3'ish most days they wack up temp lights then fuck off home !!. The traffic then backs up from Boars Head pub to Albert's Bar restaurant (Google maps it fair distance) and the other way Boars head pub to Swindley labour club. The knock on affect in the town centre turns it into a fookin mare. And not that, if they open up more on the opposite side of town that's it gridlock. Then you see this and think fook me why ? https://youtu.be/wWd6nMISQx4?si=ZXaYDlGovi--snip

Some places are charging for green bin emptying £59 a year permit. Round here they collect every 3 weeks which is about £3:40 per empty. This is were were heading, we'll be asked to cough up extra simply because councils are skint. Black blue brown will me next probably ask for £300 extra a year empty your bins. Fly tipping will literally go off the scale and fires