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General Discussion Area / Re: Good service from Vaillant

« on: 22 February 2016, 19:02:56 »

TD, I suspect that a complete kit is all that they would sell you, because they make loads more money that way - the "excuse" being that it aids diagnosis and speed ot repair and there might be other faults, so best to change the lot!
Might I suggest that you check the sensor for identifying part numbers and manufacturer, because it's likely to be a supplied part, and research via RS Components of Farnell catalogues - and get one whilst you can.....

Ron.

I'll have a look into that.....thankyou 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Good service from Vaillant

« on: 22 February 2016, 19:02:08 »

They don't sell the bits separately as they know dam well that a van will turn up outside your house with a person inside pertaining to be an engineer, they will then change willy nilly parts until the fault is fixed because they have not a clue the system is doing so have no means to intelligently fault find it (I note boilers now display fault codes to......so we are into the automotive world!)

far easier for them to supply a single 'electronics' pack so the lot is changed in one go rather than many visits.

Oh yes! A service is made easy for them as well....they just hook up an equivalent of a tech2, attach a pipe to the gas feed, shove a sensor probe into the flu and then let the 'tech2' put the boiler through it paces.....5 mins later its supposedly tested the boiler and its safety features, measured the flue exhaust and gas pressure. The only other thing they have to do is clean out the magnetic filter....job jobbed!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Good service from Vaillant

« on: 21 February 2016, 19:29:38 »

Had something similar at a friends house in that he couldn't just replace the stat, but had to replace multiple parts, as it was a kit.

Well, if the outside temp sensor packs up again outside warranty and I cannot just buy the outside sensor.....I wont be buying the 'kit' ....its nearly £200 of 'kit'.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 21 February 2016, 06:36:56 »

Had the nice Europeans at Tesco wash and polish my 3.2 for a tenner without damaging the side trim as in the car wash.

If this was Tesco's extra in Swindon.....you wanna try the European car wash at the Texaco garage at the Magic....£10 gets it washed and dried, inside cleaned as well and a dangly thing for the rear view mirror  And they do a good job  Ive tried most of them in Swindon an even tho being a cab can get it cleaned 1/2 price at another place.....always tend to go back to the Texaco garage 

Useful, how much extra not to have the dangly thing?

Just remembered it now an Esso gararge!   And go for a green air freshener! 

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General Discussion Area / Good service from Vaillant

« on: 20 February 2016, 17:11:26 »

My 17 month boiler experienced a problem.....the outside temp sensor stopped working....so the controller went into a default mode and assumed the outside temp was 0c....thus meant the heating still worked but was making the boiler work harder than it needed to.

Call to Vaillant on Fri lunchtime.....explained the problem....heating type blokey booked for today! 
Turned up about 9.30am, replaced everything to do with the controller....that is controller + circuit board for controller fitted in the boiler + the outside temp sensor....

Carnt fault that service.....fixed within 24hrs of call under warranty 

I did ask why he was changing the whole lot and not just the outside temp sensor.....apparently it comes as a complete kit....so might as well change the lot 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 20 February 2016, 16:53:43 »

Had the nice Europeans at Tesco wash and polish my 3.2 for a tenner without damaging the side trim as in the car wash.

If this was Tesco's extra in Swindon.....you wanna try the European car wash at the Texaco garage at the Magic....£10 gets it washed and dried, inside cleaned as well and a dangly thing for the rear view mirror  And they do a good job  Ive tried most of them in Swindon an even tho being a cab can get it cleaned 1/2 price at another place.....always tend to go back to the Texaco garage 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Windows 10 defender...

« on: 20 February 2016, 10:59:50 »

TD, just google "Lenovo malware bios" should give you enough hints to get started.  They have been getting a real slating in the channel press over it.

Thankyou....Googled it and then checked, theres no LSE service running and looked in the system32 dir.....the files it mentions aren't there either 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Windows 10 defender...

« on: 19 February 2016, 18:02:13 »

Consumer Lenovo? Be aware of the enforced "enhancements"/malware that you can't get rid of.  There are a bit naughty.

For some models, Lenovo do have BIOS updates that don't have the "enhancements" in.

Must say impressed so far, Lenovo ideapad 100s, for £150 its worth it imo, its very thin, very light, a lot quicker than my 5 year old notepad, 8hr battery,  but with only 32gb storage, before win10 install, its not going to good for much apart from surfing the net and email etc ... but thats fine for me .... ive got a i5 desktop for anything thats requires power and disk space 

Just keep an eye on running processes

SSDs are cheap now, 240Gb is only £50 delivered, if you find it is too tight on space

Will do  , tho im not totally sure what to look out for win10 

Ive decided im not installing Office, as i only used Outlook, with occassional letter writing....so notepad or whatever can do that and outlook.com can do the email  So the 14Gb I have free atm, is fine by me 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tumble dryer recalls

« on: 18 February 2016, 18:06:46 »

Good job ive got a cheap Servis tumble dryer.....so isnt affected by the recall...
Tho i rarely use the thing....i used to use it all the time....but since buying a 'clothes horse' type thingy, i put all my clothes on that to dry, which usually takes a day....and has the added benifit (among other leccy saving devices) of reducing my leccy bill from what used to be  a consistant around £110/quarter to around £70/quarter 
Tho i realise that this isnt really an option with a young family....

How did my parents cope, with 5 of us little buggers dragging in half the field on our clothes every day

Damp nappies hanging by the coal fire 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Car forums

« on: 18 February 2016, 18:04:47 »

Insignia forum has loads regarding poor lights mainly the non AFL cars

I think all Vauxhalls of late generally have poor headlights, compared to the equivalent on other marques.

I think its due to have projector headlamps with filament bulbs fitted....my experience....omega with projectors and filament bulbs rubbish...passat the same rubbish....octavia the same rubbish.....mondeo with non projectors and filament bulbs perfect 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tumble dryer recalls

« on: 18 February 2016, 17:54:56 »

Good job ive got a cheap Servis tumble dryer.....so isnt affected by the recall...
Tho i rarely use the thing....i used to use it all the time....but since buying a 'clothes horse' type thingy, i put all my clothes on that to dry, which usually takes a day....and has the added benifit (among other leccy saving devices) of reducing my leccy bill from what used to be  a consistant around £110/quarter to around £70/quarter 
Tho i realise that this isnt really an option with a young family....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Windows 10 defender...

« on: 17 February 2016, 18:47:59 »

Consumer Lenovo? Be aware of the enforced "enhancements"/malware that you can't get rid of.  There are a bit naughty.

For some models, Lenovo do have BIOS updates that don't have the "enhancements" in.

Must say impressed so far, Lenovo ideapad 100s, for £150 its worth it imo, its very thin, very light, a lot quicker than my 5 year old notepad, 8hr battery,  but with only 32gb storage, before win10 install, its not going to good for much apart from surfing the net and email etc ... but thats fine for me .... ive got a i5 desktop for anything thats requires power and disk space 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Windows 10 defender...

« on: 15 February 2016, 19:05:16 »

Not gonna say what notebook ive bought....as I will probably get slated for it....
£150 for a Lenovo...damn   

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General Discussion Area / Windows 10 defender...

« on: 15 February 2016, 18:58:35 »

Doesn't appear that good imo....

Noticed some strangeness on my notebook.....and got defender to do a full scan....it found 3 viruses! 

So, why didn't it stop them to start with  and why only a full scan found them that took about 5 hours   

Picking up new notebook tomorrow....not because of the viruses found but this 5 year old notebook has had it......it runs too slow for me on win10....on/off button is knackered....crashes most times coming out of hibernate....batt on the motherboard is fubared....it forgets date/time every reboot 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Decided to come back!

« on: 15 February 2016, 18:38:58 »

Glad you're back Dave as I haven't forgotten about that pint I owe you! 

So if you're heading this way in the summer let me know.

Probably end up at goldencap holiday park, as I did last year.....really enjoyed it