Complete RAGEFACE cripple and giving a TVR away...

[Gorvid]

Furious.
I'm just going to vent my fking rageface into this post despite the complete lack of good it will actually do.

Last week I bought a car. A very fun car. In fact it's the sort of car that I completely and utterly LOVE because it's stupidly noisy, idiotic, fast and pointless.

I love this car.

It's not perfect by any means, I actually bought it as a project, I am planning to do all sorts of little bits to it to make it a stunning and lovely little pretty thing. But I digress.

I bought this car because I wanted to have something to enjoy, something to play with.

But it's going a bit fking wrong.

Not the car... oh no, that's bloody great, lumpy berk of a performance clutch but when it's up and running it's utterly utterly superb.

Oh no, it's [i]me[i] that's going fking wrong.

A few years back I badly damaged my knee, I've basically suffered since, through all known forms of physio, massage, angry bumming etc etc... nothing has helped. And about 2 years ago the issues began to take hold of my lower back, so as above - physio / ops / bumming / spinal punching etc etc.... boring.

The point is I am fking KNACKERED.

But I've had TVRs before, I've already driven them with my bad knee and back... they are FINE.

Or they were...

I bought this one after a small test drive, it was a good price and I liked the way it felt, warts 'n all. Good ex-owner on here, everything felt right.

300 miles home - slightly sore when I I arrived, I ignored it.

200 miles jaunt a few days back - painful, coincidence I think.

50 mile buzz yesterday - fking agony.

Just went and sat in it, couldn't really move.

For some reason, the low, straight-legged driving position is utterly buggering with me and it's set off my stupid crippled idiot parts more than ever.

So I've got a fantastic car I was planning to spend money on making great, not even got the V5 back yet and I'm already starting to realise that I might not be able to fking USE the thing.



So. fking. Fed-up.

I'm currently seeing a specialist for my medical crippledness every week, he thinks it's the extended leg position now that I have such a damaged lower back... his advice: "don't drive it".....!

So I'm now faced with either sitting tight and hoping, throwing my money at it and hoping, or simply putting out for sale a car I REALLY fking WANT for someone else to buy, whilst looking EXACTLY like some kind of awful scamming one-minute st of an owner.

Or just fking giving it away on EBAY with NO fking RESERVE.

Hate.

Vent over.

PS: It's NOT the gear changes, it's the low seat position.

Edited by Gorvid on Wednesday 5th October 22:31

[ShampooEfficient]

Can you maybe swap the seats and/ or seat frames to adjust the driving position?

I appreciate you're not the smallest chap in the world, but everything's fettleable.

[TheEnd]

I'm in for 99p.

[CraigyMc]

9/10 rant. I was impressed.

Now, man the fk up and buy some painkillers. If they don't work, find a surgeon willing to hack your leg off. Obviously this sort of surgeon is unlikely to be the good sort, so get some insurance before the operation.

C

• whole post is in jest.

[Gorvid]

ShampooEfficient said:

Can you maybe swap the seats and/ or seat frames to adjust the driving position?

I appreciate you're not the smallest chap in the world, but everything's fettleable.

This is my next plan, I'm going to experiment - but I honestly think I'm on a loser from the start because it's the "sat on the floor" position that seems to do it, rather than the pedal / seat travel etc...

But I'm going to have to try, or just get so angry I sell it to TheEnd for 99p.

[dnb]

Possibly involving the removal of his head...

Would making the clutch lighter help? There are ways of assisting the clutch operation by selecting appropriate master and slave cylinders or using vacuum assistance. Not seen anything of this nature for TVRs, but very few things are really impossible.

[Gorvid]

CraigyMc said:

Now, man the fk up and buy some painkillers.

My thoughts EXACTLY, so I irrelevantly took double the dose of the horse-stoppers I'm currently on, and immediately went for a hoon. Only to wake up in just my socks, in the hallway, with the TVR keys inside my actual anus a few hours later.

Not my finest moment.

[ShampooEfficient]

Gorvid said:

ShampooEfficient said:

Can you maybe swap the seats and/ or seat frames to adjust the driving position?

I appreciate you're not the smallest chap in the world, but everything's fettleable.

This is my next plan, I'm going to experiment - but I honestly think I'm on a loser from the start because it's the "sat on the floor" position that seems to do it, rather than the pedal / seat travel etc...

But I'm going to have to try, or just get so angry I sell it to TheEnd for 99p.

Higher seat frames to angle your legs downwards (headroom permitting), or height-adjustable seat? I hate some of our buses cos I can't get the seat high enough, and I spend half my duty adjusting it every other way to compensate.

[LukeSi]

TheEnd said:

I'm in for 99p.

I'm in for £1.99.

[CraigyMc]

Gorvid said:

CraigyMc said:

Now, man the fk up and buy some painkillers.

My thoughts EXACTLY, so I irrelevantly took double the dose of the horse-stoppers I'm currently on, and immediately went for a hoon. Only to wake up in just my socks, in the hallway, with the TVR keys inside my actual anus a few hours later.

Not my finest moment.

Sounds like a great night out to me. Oh, also sounds like a Robin Williams sketch about being alcoholic.

Surely if you can handle a set of car keys in the bum you can handle a little knee pain?


ETA: linkie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIWB-Neyj-c

[Gorvid]

dnb said:

Would making the clutch lighter help?

Nope, clutch is fine, just like driving a NASCAR at low speeds / yet utterly perfect when bazookering. It's the lowness that is fking me up.

swerni said:

You're just getting old mate

Don't I fking know it. You cheeky , you're not having it when I give it away now.

[Gorvid]

ShampooEfficient said:

Higher seat frames to angle your legs downwards (headroom permitting), or height-adjustable seat? I hate some of our buses cos I can't get the seat high enough, and I spend half my duty adjusting it every other way to compensate.

I have about 0 inches spare headroom.

[goffahsez]

I'll raise it to £1.50?

[CraigyMc]

goffahsez said:

I'll raise it to £1.50?

From 1.99?

You're clearly good at this haggling lark.

[Gorvid]

CraigyMc said:

Surely if you can handle a set of car keys in the bum you can handle a little knee pain?

I can easily handle a little knee pain and easily handle even quite a lot of knee or back pain, it's just the bit where it's like a carving knife slowly slicing through my screaming raw nerves that mildly irritates me.

And on a serious note, I just can't "ignore it" and drive when I'm likely to seize up or lose leg control any moment, as HUGELY GAY as it sounds it really is that bad. It's ignoring it all that got me here...(well, that and tearing myself into two pieces like a complete dick).

[Cooky]

Ay up Crip!

get thee self o'er to Sainsbury's, buy yerself some of that New Zealand Honey Shyte, you know the 10+ stuff, take a teaspoon full a day for a few weeks and ....'hey presto'....fat old cripples with L4/5 lumbar discectomies can drive Tivs again....works for me bro.



luv ya man
Cooky

[Gorvid]

Gaz. said:

Which TVR did you buy and do you think a car with a lighter clutch will help or are you going to have to go for a clutchless manual/automatic?

It's not the clutch mate, it's the driving position, the lowness and non-bended knee thing....

[Gorvid]

Cooky said:

Ay up Crip!

get thee self o'er to Sainsbury's, buy yerself some of that New Zealand Honey Shyte, you know the 10+ stuff, take a teaspoon full a day for a few weeks and ....'hey presto'....fat old cripples with L4/5 lumbar discectomies can drive Tivs again....works for me bro.



luv ya man
Cooky

Been eating that for YEARS.... if it wasn't for that I would simply be one large, fully-fused piece of PISED OFF BONE...

[redstu]

LukeSi said:

I'm in for £1.99.

990
and Im bidding blind!

[CraigyMc]

Gorvid said:

CraigyMc said:

Surely if you can handle a set of car keys in the bum you can handle a little knee pain?

I can easily handle a little knee pain and easily handle even quite a lot of knee or back pain, it's just the bit where it's like a carving knife slowly slicing through my screaming raw nerves that mildly irritates me.

And on a serious note, I just can't "ignore it" and drive when I'm likely to seize up or lose leg control any moment, as HUGELY GAY as it sounds it really is that bad. It's ignoring it all that got me here...(well, that and tearing myself into two pieces like a complete dick).

Egads. I think the only solution for you is as you say - get rid of the TVR.

Get something with an upright driving position and a bended knee - like a Land Rover?

I'm thinking overfinch.

C