Random Irritations

[Doon frae Troon]

Campervan tourists in the Highlands of Scotland.
Mainly clueless first timers, blocking roads and parking in passing places, no single track road etiquette.
Overnight parking off the road in the beauty spots, making them look like car parks.
Emptying chemical toilets where ever they like, peeing and pooing on beaches.
Lighting fires on the white sands beaches, leaving litter and food waste and generally behaving like morons.

Probably complaining that there are no bingo halls or Weatherspoons nearby.


...................And breathe ...................

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Campervan tourists in the Highlands of Scotland.
Mainly clueless first timers, blocking roads and parking in passing places, no single track road etiquette.
Overnight parking off the road in the beauty spots, making them look like car parks.
Emptying chemical toilets where ever they like, peeing and pooing on beaches.
Lighting fires on the white sands beaches, leaving litter and food waste and generally behaving like morons.

Probably complaining that there are no bingo halls or Weatherspoons nearby.


...................And breathe ...................

I read a post on Facebook this morning - describing what’s going up Arisaig/Morar way. It was shared by a cousin of mine who lives on Little Loch Broom and who is experiencing similar chaos and shockingly disrespectful behaviour to the landscape and the locals by some tourists, campers and others doing The 500. Scottish government has to get to grips with this. Reading it was heartbreaking and made me very ????

 

[Deleted member 3432]

Campervan tourists in the Highlands of Scotland.
Mainly clueless first timers, blocking roads and parking in passing places, no single track road etiquette.
Overnight parking off the road in the beauty spots, making them look like car parks.
Emptying chemical toilets where ever they like, peeing and pooing on beaches.
Lighting fires on the white sands beaches, leaving litter and food waste and generally behaving like morons.

Probably complaining that there are no bingo halls or Weatherspoons nearby.


...................And breathe ...................

It was happening last summer, Arisaig/Morar was like a shanty town at one stage. Just got more media attention this week through the likes of Hope Blamire.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Lorries and the M25 plus Dartford tunnel

My mate left Southampton 9am to meet me for a 12:34 tee time

He's just got to the tunnel due to a broken down lorry

Then they closed his tunnel to let through more lorries ..

Really hate that crossing

Much prefer the bridge

Well unless it's windy ofc then again the lorries cause chaos

 

[Deleted member 16999]

It was happening last summer, Arisaig/Morar was like a shanty town at one stage. Just got more media attention this week through the likes of Hope Blamire.

Hope’s done a lot to raise the awareness this week and going by some of her other posts and talking to her, it looks like the Council and Police are taking some action.

 

[Deleted member 3432]

Hope’s done a lot to raise the awareness this week and going by some of her other posts and talking to her, it looks like the Council and Police are taking some action.

Hopefully they take some action, it's a beautiful area.

Hot a couple of lovely prints of Hope's in our house.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Hopefully they take some action, it's a beautiful area.

Hot a couple of lovely prints of Hope's in our house.

I have a couple and an original small painting of Harris she did for me, plus, I glued and framed a couple of her jigsaws as well after I’d finished them. Much better than just breaking them up and the box sitting in the cupboard gathering dust.

As an aside, her Dad was an ex-Captain of the R&A.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Having to cover 2 colleagues at work and finding out the standard of work they let through; do I put the telescope to the other eye or do I do them to the correct standard, creating more work for myself and letting them off the hook... ???

 

[Hobbit]

Having to cover 2 colleagues at work and finding out the standard of work they let through; do I put the telescope to the other eye or do I do them to the correct standard, creating more work for myself and letting them off the hook... ???

Or do the work to your standard but tell them they’ve used their get out of jail card. Tell them that if you’re asked to cover for them again and find the same shoddy work the boss will find out. Less chance of falling out with them, and they owe you…+ you shouldn’t have to go through the same pain again. Bit of a win-win.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Or do the work to your standard but tell them they’ve used their get out of jail card. Tell them that if you’re asked to cover for them again and find the same shoddy work the boss will find out. Less chance of falling out with them, and they owe you…+ you shouldn’t have to go through the same pain again. Bit of a win-win.

They’d actually have to give a damn for that to work Brian, which is half the problem. Their get out of jail free cards ran out some time ago.

 

[Hobbit]

They’d actually have to give a damn for that to work Brian, which is half the problem. Their get out of jail free cards ran out some time ago.

If you’ve tried the gentle word, escalate.

 

[GB72]

The simple refusal by the media to publish the relevant information at the moment. Not picking them but an example is BBC, published the number of new cases of Covid and the number of deaths but no mention of the number of hospitalizations etc. Surely these are now the relevant figures, we know vaccination does not necessarily stop you getting it but it should stop it being as serious so the next steps should be based on how many cases develop into serious cases rather than just a blanket number of cases each day but, you know what, sensible and pertinent information does not worry the living hell out of people like stories about a third wave and us all going back into lockdown.

 

[Slime]

The EGR valve on my car is playing up.
A new one from the dealer is £492!!!
The cheapest after-market one from Euro Car Parts is £395!!!

 

[RichA]

The simple refusal by the media to publish the relevant information at the moment. Not picking them but an example is BBC, published the number of new cases of Covid and the number of deaths but no mention of the number of hospitalizations etc. Surely these are now the relevant figures, we know vaccination does not necessarily stop you getting it but it should stop it being as serious so the next steps should be based on how many cases develop into serious cases rather than just a blanket number of cases each day but, you know what, sensible and pertinent information does not worry the living hell out of people like stories about a third wave and us all going back into lockdown.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

 

[GreiginFife]

The EGR valve on my car is playing up.
A new one from the dealer is £492!!!
The cheapest after-market one from Euro Car Parts is £395!!!

Is it accessible?

 

[Slime]

Is it accessible?

Reasonably.
Are you thinking of going down the cleaning route?

 

[Foxholer]

The EGR valve on my car is playing up.
A new one from the dealer is £492!!!
The cheapest after-market one from Euro Car Parts is £395!!!

It's possible to get your current one 'serviced', though still a possibility that a new one will be required.
A couple of decent length motorway journeys (not the M25 in rush hour!!) could clean it out a bit - especially if you generally only do short journeys - as they can soot up.
Oh and just to upset you a bit more, the labour involved to replace one on some cars can be considerably more than the cost of the part!

 

[Slime]

It's possible to get your current one 'serviced', though still a possibility that a new one will be required.
A couple of decent length motorway journeys (not the M25 in rush hour!!) could clean it out a bit - especially if you generally only do short journeys - as they can soot up.
Oh and just to upset you a bit more, the labour involved to replace one on some cars can be considerably more than the cost of the part!

Yeah, that's true enough, but £400 + for the valve is just ridiculous.
Many people just blank them off, but that can lead to emissions failures at MOT time.

 

[GreiginFife]

Reasonably.
Are you thinking of going down the cleaning route?

Most EGR issues I've come across have been down to choked solenoids. The soot just builds up until it can't open or close properly.

Carb (or brake) cleaner with a drill mounted wire brush (pipe cleaner type) usually goes a long way to freeing them.

The valves themselves aren't overly complex in a mechanical snese, if its a control circuit issue then thats another matter but I always recommend the clean it route first.

 

[GreiginFife]

It's possible to get your current one 'serviced', though still a possibility that a new one will be required.
A couple of decent length motorway journeys (not the M25 in rush hour!!) could clean it out a bit - especially if you generally only do short journeys - as they can soot up.
Oh and just to upset you a bit more, the labour involved to replace one on some cars can be considerably more than the cost of the part!

An often touted myth. The problem is usually coking of the solenoid. Driving it and adding to that is not going to solve it. If it's a choking problem it needs cleaned using a substance that can loosen the carbon thats built up in either the intake or outlet chamber.

The only thing that I have ever seen "motorway blasting" solve is a partial exhaust blockage.