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

« on: 26 March 2018, 13:22:42 »

Replaced rear pads on TBE, then set about looking for the reason for the Black Pussy's insatiable appetite for screenwash since xmas , even when unused.

To replace the knackered part, the bloody bumper has to come off, grrrr.  Still, I wanted to replace the bulbs anyway, and that's a bumper off job as well.

Guess I need to make up a shopping list...

I carnt get to headlight bulbs on my mondeo either, as they are, but I find it a 10min job to pop the complete headlight unit out change the bulb and replace. Is it not possible to the same on the jag 

167

General Discussion Area / Re: Is this the end of VX

« on: 23 March 2018, 17:09:03 »

I do find a lot of the dealers poor, I was dealing with a sales man at Camberley Eden Vauxhall when hunting for the Zafira. Had a good few emails going back and forth, trying to source what I wanted through the Eden group, but struggled. Not after much, just a non-base spec Tourer with autobox. Apparently they were hard to source. 

I bought one via another franchise, I popped him an email to see if he could do me a deal on some mats for the Zafira. Or give me rough price, as I was doing that or eBay.

Just a one line reply back, "Speak to Parts". - Zero interest now he lost the sale.

Zero effort from dealership as a whole, I know I went to another franchise, but still.

Precisely, the dealers are franchises, so not sure how VX save money shutting them down.
The more franchise outlets to sell their cars the better I would have thought.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Combi boiler probelm....

« on: 18 March 2018, 10:51:33 »

Glad it fixed .

I’m sure there must be a logic as to why the air bubble was causing the boiler to fire, but I just can’t visualise it  . Did any of what you read online indicate why this was the case?

Yes.....

Apparently turning on the cold tap...causes the air in the pipe to expand (as less water pressure). Turning off the cold tap makes the air compress. The air compressing triggers the boilers flow sensor into thinking there is a demand for H/W.

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General Discussion Area / Combi boiler problem....

« on: 18 March 2018, 08:59:44 »

Well, I thought it had a problem....until I fixed it 

Problem has been going for a good few weeks now....

Turn a cold water tap on and at turning it off the boiler goes into H/W mode for about 1 sec then leaves a pump running for about 20secs before either shutting down or going back to C/H mode. Same thing happens if you flush the loo or if the washing machine / dishwasher is taking in cold water.

Decided to do a google on the problem and a couple of sites suggested there was air trapped in the cold water pipe somewhere and suggested running all the cold water taps to try and get rid of the air lock.

The local water board did turn off the water about a month ago for a few hours to fix a leak a few roads away.

All the cold taps run water fine......then it suddenly dawned on me that it might be the shower, as the shower tap is always set to max hot as the H/W temp is controlled by the boiler (45c). Turned the shower to max cold and turned it on, it spat and hissed for about 10 secs  before settling down to constant flow of cold.

Boiler problem has gone away and running a cold tap on max and shutting off doesn't affect the boiler now 

To think I was ready to callout the boiler manu as I thought it was a boiler problem and all it was, was trapped air 

Job jobbed 

170

General Discussion Area / Re: Snow?

« on: 18 March 2018, 08:36:34 »

Same here....about 2inches has fallen....but where its been drifting its 4inches in places ..... just been round to local shop and saw a Mercedes driver believing the best way to drive in snow is right foot planted to floor and rear wheels spinning like mad 

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General Discussion Area / Re: 110

« on: 15 March 2018, 12:57:38 »

She looks well, sitting in her chair, surrounded by family..........I'm quite touched.

I'm sure AA's mum looks just as good this year, but that is a pic of her 109th birthday, Steve

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General Discussion Area / Re: 110

« on: 15 March 2018, 07:43:52 »

Happy Birthday AA's mum 

173

General Discussion Area / Re: My plasma television has gone tit's up.

« on: 23 February 2018, 12:53:26 »

I might be off track here, Rods2, but nowadays, because telly can be watched through a computer, do they count that as a receiver !!

I think you only need a license if the equipment is able to show 'live' tv. Watching recorded programmes you dont. IIRC

174

General Discussion Area / Re: Lidl customer service

« on: 12 February 2018, 18:00:38 »

Why would you buy from Currys/pc world when the same thing on line is 10 or 20% cheaper and delivered to your door.

Have you not tried to buy anything from these mongs recently?  Effectively, you go in, and order the fridge you want to be delivered to your door using their expensive delivery options.

I usually start out by asking what fridge/whatever they actually have in stock to take away today in my car, usually to be told "everything is in stock", then have to get annoyed when I go to purchase this only to be told I have to pay delivery, and it will be next week, because they don't actually have any.  Which usually results in being manhandled out of the store for being unkind to the morons that work there.

Last thing I bought from Currys, was a dishwasher, 12 months ago.....I asked for discount and got it....cheaper than online too...
They had it in stock as well and I even helped the kiddie load into the back of my estate 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Everything going wrong part 2

« on: 12 February 2018, 17:54:40 »

I think a lot of it depends where you are. When my missus blew a tyre in Sheffield, RAC were there in 15 mins. If you must live in the arse end of nowhere, expect rescue to take longer.

If you had the blow out, I think you would have waited longer.....women are usually given priority 

176

General Car Chat / Re: MOT fail question

« on: 11 February 2018, 07:47:01 »

Well, I slapped on a new wing mirror cover and took it the get the headlights checked (somewhere else).  "They are if anything a little too high"  he said.  "Shall I bring them down?".  I told them no thanks, took it back for a retest at the original place and hey presto, no problem with the headlight aim height despite having not touched it.  So, is it:

a)  defective testing equipment,
b) operator error,
c) one of those subjective items that testers use to get an extra cheeky tenner out of a test fee,
d) an assumption that I have fixed it, tester can't be arris'd to check it, just ticks a box and goes back to his fag break?

I thought, on a retest the tester only checks what he failed previously......

The garage I take my car to for servicing/repairs has a laser guided alignment tester for the headlight aim....

The garage I have to take it too for an MOT (council approved) has a cracked lens in their ancient headlight tester and has been like that for years.....but it seems VOSA doesn't object to it (as they must have had inspections over the years!)

It originally failed not just for the mirror cover but for headlight aim low on both sides.  Sorry, should have made that clear.

Ah ok....Then it could be A or B, but then again the second place you took it to, could also be A or B

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General Car Chat / Re: MOT fail question

« on: 10 February 2018, 16:43:41 »

Well, I slapped on a new wing mirror cover and took it the get the headlights checked (somewhere else).  "They are if anything a little too high"  he said.  "Shall I bring them down?".  I told them no thanks, took it back for a retest at the original place and hey presto, no problem with the headlight aim height despite having not touched it.  So, is it:

a)  defective testing equipment,
b) operator error,
c) one of those subjective items that testers use to get an extra cheeky tenner out of a test fee,
d) an assumption that I have fixed it, tester can't be arris'd to check it, just ticks a box and goes back to his fag break?

I thought, on a retest the tester only checks what he failed previously......

The garage I take my car to for servicing/repairs has a laser guided alignment tester for the headlight aim....

The garage I have to take it too for an MOT (council approved) has a cracked lens in their ancient headlight tester and has been like that for years.....but it seems VOSA doesn't object to it (as they must have had inspections over the years!)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Plusnet mobile

« on: 10 February 2018, 12:46:06 »

With all the tech wizards on here, I am surprised no-one has a solution to this, other than change back to Vodafone, whose signal was worse, but do offer boosters. 

You could try O2 or anybody else that runs on the O2 network (giffgaff for example)
Ive used my giffgaff phone to make calls in your village ok 

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General Car Chat / Re: Strange LPG issue - Corsa 1.2

« on: 06 February 2018, 06:29:42 »

After you have changed the filter, if it still acts up, Id be inclined to take it to a lpg specialist and have them check the pressure.
I had a Vectra dual fuel for a while, that kept switching back to petrol. It turned out the pressure needed increasing 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Combi Boiler Diverter Valve

« on: 28 January 2018, 15:50:39 »

Boilers are stupidly simple devices, with stupidly simple wiring.  I suspect plumbers try to keep that simple.


That said, my Potterton locked out again overnight, that's twice in the last 3 months.  Heres hoping there is enough PCB to solder to, as I vaguely recall the last time - probably about 10yrs ago - I was having to rebuild tracks across burnt, disintegrated board.  I suspect it will be a new PCB this time

Have you looked inside a new(ish) boiler 

My Vaillant has a huge pcb with another pcb piggy backed onto it, with looms of cable running everywhere ......

Its still simple, ultimately, no matter how they try to complicate it.

My old boiler was stupidly simple, thermostat, cast iron heat exchanger, ignitor and that was about it, no pcb.....but it used about four times the amount of gas