Kiltox 17394 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 2 hours ago, Cavcraft said: CTB have been using a firm in Liverpool and Manchester. They tell you a price based on location and reg number and if you accept, the whole thing goes swimmingly. Effortless contact, very polite service and most importantly they turn up when they say they will, pay what they said they would and do all the paperwork. Now it seems they've got Copart involved and they seem to be treating scrap cars as if they're some sort of lovechild of Gumtree and WeBuyAnyCar, lots of questions about service history, keys, damage, price wanted etc. They can GTF with that sketch. Highly area dependant. Try ringing whoever was coming to you directly. RemoveMyCar might also come up with the goods. Cavcraft 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Minimad5 1108 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 1 hour ago, Minimad5 said: Just got home from dog walk and essential shopping.... Volvo has had a little wee. Check header tank and level a smidge below maximum, so get home and notice this wee has decided to become more apparent. Inspection shows small crack in radiator- Shit sticks. Quick brew and strip down me thinks. Might have to freeze my ass off and use the bike in the morning (5am so guaranteed icy roads) A quick look in the massive stash of spares, and a radiator has been found. Fitted and half bled- time for a quick wash and test drive up to operating temperature. wuvvum, louiepj and Stevebrookman 3 Link to post Share on other sites
cort16 57751 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I bought a chair for my daughters bedroom. We also got a new dining room set so spent a few hours dismantling the old one and building the new one so the chair was the last thing I did. I got to the last chair leg and I don't know if the nut insert had a cross thread or I'm just a hamfisted bastard (probably the later) but the thread crossed. I then had to spend ages knocking out the nut insert and trying to find another nut and bolt that fitted. I eventually got the leg on and it finally dawned on my it's about 50% of the size I expected. This wasn't advertised as a child chair but she's only 6 and is pretty much too small for her to sit on. Look at the size of it! Link to post Share on other sites
somewhatfoolish 7860 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Grow the legs? Link to post Share on other sites
brownnova 12232 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Took the afternoon off from home working to take a look at the MX5 before it goes to the garage on Monday... thought a few months gap may shed new light on its issues. This sight greeted me... A few inches out completely frozen water. Turns out the the roof wasn’t closed properly and when the cover blew off in a storm it got very wet in there... Wouldn’t run properly either... not enough even to pull it to the garage... so after half an hour in the sub zero temperatures I declared it a “fuck that” will leave it for the garage on Monday! I’d better de-moisture it though... BorniteIdentity and Coprolalia 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Wgl2019 246 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Everyone needs to be healthy, does your fruit juice have too much sugar? You need this amazing* invention..... 40% fewer calories and less sugar (by diluting it with 40% water and charging more per serving). http://tropicana.co.uk/our-products/tropicana-lean/mixed-berries-lean Not sure if it annoys me that marketing bods think people are thick enough to go for this shit or the fact that they are probably correct! Link to post Share on other sites
gm 9361 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 4 minutes ago, brownnova said: Took the afternoon off from home working to take a look at the MX5 before it goes to the garage on Monday... thought a few months gap may shed new light on its issues. This sight greeted me... A few inches out completely frozen water. Turns out the the roof wasn’t closed properly and when the cover blew off in a storm it got very wet in there... Wouldn’t run properly either... not enough even to pull it to the garage... so after half an hour in the sub zero temperatures I declared it a “fuck that” will leave it for the garage on Monday! I’d better de-moisture it though... poor running may be dampness in the ecu which lives under the carpet behind the glovebox - I found this out the hard way when driving home from work one night, the engine spluttered to a stop in the middle of nowhere, 2am I pulled the ecu, sat it on the warm engine to dry and remarkably made it home safe sheffcortinacentre, BorniteIdentity and Tickman 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Wgl2019 246 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 On 2/10/2021 at 10:53 AM, Rovorsche said: I dont know if this is a new thing, some buyers poured oil into the coolant of a car and tried to haggle a £200 purchase on a car up for £8995. https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/19076501.police-investigate-car-scam-nearly-lost-steventon-couple-9-000/ Thinking back a couple of years, I went with a friend to view a cheap Focus from a Trader, his yard was on a farm with cars undergoing surgery in various shonky sheds and barns. There was an oily film in the header tank but the seller claimed the car had belonged to an old feller that had confused the expansion tank with the oil filler, on a one owner 14 year old car. The above story sheds a different light on this oil contamination. These are what is known in the trade as "ShitCunts". Well done to the potential victims for spotting what was going on and not being bullied into the sale. myglaren, BorniteIdentity and Rovorsche 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites
brownnova 12232 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 25 minutes ago, gm said: poor running may be dampness in the ecu which lives under the carpet behind the glovebox - I found this out the hard way when driving home from work one night, the engine spluttered to a stop in the middle of nowhere, 2am I pulled the ecu, sat it on the warm engine to dry and remarkably made it home safe Oooh.... I wonder.... I’ll whip that out and dry it! Link to post Share on other sites
vulgalour 44340 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I've manage do to Do Something to my shoulder and it means I can't do any of my artwork. This isn't great, since that's stuff I get paid to do. Every day I have to take off from work usually adds two days to my schedule minimum and shunts everything along. Added to that, when you're healing up from an injury you can't work as hard, so it's even more difficult to catch up on the lost time, so those two days end up being three or four and before you know where you are you're having to decide which deadlines are most important at the end of the month. It's annoying that the work it affects is the stuff I can't delegate and it being the start of the month means I'm all caught up on the work stuff that this doesn't affect so it's a case of thumb twiddling until it sorts out. The injury itself isn't that severe, it's some sort of muscle strain or trapped nerve, but it means it's painful to hold a stylus or pen or anything that requires fine motor skills for any amount of time. It also means that my hand swells up, or that my grip just randomly goes away. No idea what's caused it, went to bed fine, woke up broken, so I must have done something particularly stupid in my sleep. Mild painkillers are dealing with the pain and swelling issues, and light exercise helps with the grip issues but I just have to take it easy for a few days while it fixes. Normally I'd distract myself by going on a walk or just window shopping but, with things as they are, I'm here posting about it instead. myglaren and crad 2 Link to post Share on other sites
GrumpiusMaximus 7092 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 'Thick of It' - style sudden, unannounced policy changes at work today that significantly change my workload! Not even our senior manager was aware and we only found out due to an offhand comment from somebody in another team, despite the fact that it's a cross-department scheme! Link to post Share on other sites
hairnet 11926 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 panda of much spinnage has died chaps daughter who i sold it to - apparently engine died/blew up/gorged on pasta didnt enquire further cos id get war and peace so it could be anything low on oil no water cambelt etc etc ahh well chaseracer and Cavcraft 2 Link to post Share on other sites
cobblers 11195 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 8:30pm I came home from 13 hours at work. M1 was quiet, so I put the cruise control on at 70mph in the left hand lane and in 10 miles I reckon I came across about 10 cars doing mid 60s in lanes 2/3. Nothing else on the road. I wish I had a rocket launcher. Got home and had to leave my van 200m away and carry all my gear back up the road because no fucker can park, . 8 spaces taken up by 5 cars just parking at any old angle. Tyre nails? We need to move house ASAP to get away from these arseholes, but everywhere we look at has half a dozen applicants and despite offering to pay the whole years rent up front, we get passed over because I'm self employed. myglaren, Wilko220, Remspoor and 2 others 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Split_Pin 13757 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Bastarding boiler has completely packed up and its minus 5 outside. It's just over 2 years old and this is the second time it's broken down. Last year it needed a new circuit board and now there is an ignition fault and its leaking from somewhere around the condensate pipe. I initially thought the pipe outlet outside was frozen and some ice did come out when I poured hot water over it but even after 5 jugfuls of hot water and rodding the pipe the boiler still won't work. It's under warranty with the manufacturer Baxi so I called them and they cant send an engineer until FUCKING WEDNESDAY. They can get fucked with the Covid excuse, more precautions does not mean less engineers. The bint then had the brass neck to try and sell me more stuff. So no heating or HW until then. Anyone thinking of getting a Baxi boiler (sometimes known s Potterton) just don't. It was all we could afford at the time but I should have begged stole or borrowed a bit extra and got a Worcester. Tickman, BorniteIdentity and Remspoor 3 Link to post Share on other sites
High Jetter 1670 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Baxi in my loft is 20ish yo, working fine atm. Potterton are ok, W-B may be better, but dearer Split_Pin 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Remspoor 4342 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 I am sorry to say that someone is paying for you to drive your car. I expect you would not be so smug if the recharging was not free. One day you will get a rude awakening. The free will mean with enough EVs on the road the cars queuing for a recharge The other possibility is that the free ones will disappear in the end. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55941244 Oh, and get rid of your crap tee shirt. how can anyone love range anxiety? louiepj and Rusty_Rocket 2 Link to post Share on other sites
artdjones 4238 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 19 hours ago, Split_Pin said: Last year it needed a new circuit board Is it just me, or does everything turn sour when items that can work perfectly well without are fitted with circuit boards. strangeangel and Barry Cade 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
tobyd 833 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 19 hours ago, Split_Pin said: It's under warranty with the manufacturer Baxi so I called them and they cant send an engineer until FUCKING WEDNESDAY. They can get fucked with the Covid excuse, more precautions does not mean less engineers. I bought new Baxi (on the strength of the 10 year warranty) 4 years ago and mine gave up about 9 months in (october time) and whilst Baxi did send someone out (who fixed it in 10 seconds - "oh, these sensors go wrong all the time") it did take them a while - 5 days i think. It wasn't mega cold at the time but the service was a bit lousy. The installers, who were a decent bunch, weren't able to help as all warranty work had to go to Baxi direct. It hasn't blown up since though. Only frozen the condensate pipe and the error code and resolution is part of the support numbers gumph. Split_Pin 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Cavcraft 103876 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 On 2/10/2021 at 5:30 PM, Kiltox said: Highly area dependant. Try ringing whoever was coming to you directly. RemoveMyCar might also come up with the goods. Thanks. I used a yard about 15 miles from here, they're brilliant. Told CTB in future that if they quote me I don't want a bid from Co(ck)Part. Kiltox 1 Link to post Share on other sites
High Jetter 1670 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 3 hours ago, artdjones said: Is it just me, or does everything turn sour when items that can work perfectly well without are fitted with circuit boards. Not just you. Electro-mechanical stuff much easier and cheaper to sort. Also, why are pcb's so expensive? Link to post Share on other sites
myglaren 4439 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 23 hours ago, Split_Pin said: Bastarding boiler has completely packed up and its minus 5 outside. It's just over 2 years old and this is the second time it's broken down. Last year it needed a new circuit board and now there is an ignition fault and its leaking from somewhere around the condensate pipe. I initially thought the pipe outlet outside was frozen and some ice did come out when I poured hot water over it but even after 5 jugfuls of hot water and rodding the pipe the boiler still won't work. It's under warranty with the manufacturer Baxi so I called them and they cant send an engineer until FUCKING WEDNESDAY. They can get fucked with the Covid excuse, more precautions does not mean less engineers. The bint then had the brass neck to try and sell me more stuff. So no heating or HW until then. Anyone thinking of getting a Baxi boiler (sometimes known s Potterton) just don't. It was all we could afford at the time but I should have begged stole or borrowed a bit extra and got a Worcester. We need Paulplom back - although he did always recommend Baxi. Mine is not at all well, bubbling and gurgling, losing pressure, water (icicles now) down the wall from the pressure release valve. Had to bleed the upstairs radiators several time and the downstairs ones take forever to heat up. Have to top up nearly every day before it fires up. Always used to pack up just before Christmas but has been fine for two years until recently. I was planning to have a Baxi replace it - it is a Chaffoteaux & Maury and pretty much obsolete. My daughter had a Worcester Bosch fitted which doesn't fill me with confidence. Was going to have one fitted last summer but of course it was running perfectly then. Today's grump us that I was leaning down to pick up the phone charger lead that I dropped on the floor. My office chair shot away from under me and dumped me on the corner of the bed (wood) and I now have bruised ribs, this happened yesterday evening and it was a bugger to get to sleep as I mostly sleep on that side but continually turn over as my arms start to hurt after a while. Link to post Share on other sites
High Jetter 1670 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 C & M are brilliant boilers. Yours might be suffering a blocked heat exchanger, they have very thin tubes. Can be sorted with de-scaler myglaren 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Dick Longbridge 10525 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 On 2/12/2021 at 11:17 PM, Split_Pin said: Bastarding boiler has completely packed up and its minus 5 outside. It's just over 2 years old and this is the second time it's broken down. Last year it needed a new circuit board and now there is an ignition fault and its leaking from somewhere around the condensate pipe. I initially thought the pipe outlet outside was frozen and some ice did come out when I poured hot water over it but even after 5 jugfuls of hot water and rodding the pipe the boiler still won't work. It's under warranty with the manufacturer Baxi so I called them and they cant send an engineer until FUCKING WEDNESDAY. They can get fucked with the Covid excuse, more precautions does not mean less engineers. The bint then had the brass neck to try and sell me more stuff. So no heating or HW until then. Anyone thinking of getting a Baxi boiler (sometimes known s Potterton) just don't. It was all we could afford at the time but I should have begged stole or borrowed a bit extra and got a Worcester. Our Baxi is 9 years old and has been problematic over the years. I chatted to Paul from here about it previously and it turns out it's one of their 'budget boilers' - internal fittings are plastic rather than brass and it's generally a bit shit. It's currently on borrowed time after it had to be repaired once again recently after a plastic joint ruptured and it pissed mains pressure out onto the kitchen floor and under the hall laminate. Which was nice. Paul quoted that he only fits Worcester. I think that's what we'll replace this heap of crap with eventually. Split_Pin 1 Link to post Share on other sites
myglaren 4439 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Possibly. It did have a new heat exchanger three years ago, leaking - boiler is upstairs and we had a waterfall on the staircase. It has had loads of work done on it, regular fails every year except the last two, after a minor catastrophe caused by a nitwit 'servicing' it. Link to post Share on other sites
High Jetter 1670 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 If it sounds like it's trying to jump off the wall, the HE is blocked. You need someone who knows the boilers. Link to post Share on other sites
myglaren 4439 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 No, it just gurgles a lot until it is topped up. I topped it up at about 6 this morning, when it was stone cold. It fired up at 11 and has been silent. Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinsMom 16507 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 i had to condemn the Baxi Bermuda back boiler here 3 years ago. it has been replaced by a Bosch Worcester thing which, touch wood has been ok. it got to the stage that the Baxi sometimes would work ,and sometimes would not work. sometimes it would try and start, and then tripout, though i could then get it going by pressing the reset button. it got to the stage where it just would not go at all. in december, and the week before xmas. great. bloody marvelous. i got the plumber Mark to come and look at it. we tried a new thermocouple, a new pcb, a second hand burner tray, some other bits which i cannot remember, basically just about everything that could be changed, was changed and then changed back, cos none of it helped and yes, some bits were second hand cos there was very little parts supply for it even then, and it was only, i think 10 or 12 years old. and after all this buggering about, the damn thing just would not go. it would try to start, it would briefly fire even and then just die. and mark never did get to the bottom of why it wouldn't work!! which i thought was shit, cos the boiler the house came with, also a Baxi, but one with a fire in a teak box (younger viewers need to ask their parents) which still had excellent parts supply!! well we ended up heating the water with the emersion heater, and the house with the gas fire and a calor gas heater thing (don't ever use one of them a lot cos of the water that it throws out, and the risks of CO poisoning...) until Kerry, just out of idle curiosity, tried the central heating. and it started! so we turned it on to all day, and just left it running. but its day was done. in the new year, we got it changed as soon as the plumber had an opening, we got it changed. well its still there, behind the gas fire in the front room, just its now isolated and if, or when i decorate in here then i'll get it pulled out, maybe! irritatingly, Kerrys folks house has a Baxi back boiler, but its an older design but a similar vintage to the one i had, but that one had with a mechanical thermostat, no pcb and the rest, and that one is still going strong!! all modern shit is, erm shit...... Link to post Share on other sites
sierraman 16351 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 We’ve a Baxi, 18 years old, still chugs along, would no doubt save us a fortune running a new boiler but not when you factor in £2,000 to fit a new boiler. Of course eventually the flue will go then it will be curtains but 18 years is bloody good going I reckon. Split_Pin 1 Link to post Share on other sites
loserone 13389 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 On 13/02/2021 at 18:54, Remspoor said: I am sorry to say that someone is paying for you to drive your car. I expect you would not be so smug if the recharging was not free. One day you will get a rude awakening. The free will mean with enough EVs on the road the cars queuing for a recharge The other possibility is that the free ones will disappear in the end. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55941244 Oh, and get rid of your crap tee shirt. how can anyone love range anxiety? It's probably a response to attitudes towards electric vehicles like yours. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to post Share on other sites
GeorgeB 124 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 22 hours ago, myglaren said: We need Paulplom back - although he did always recommend Baxi. Mine is not at all well, bubbling and gurgling, losing pressure, water (icicles now) down the wall from the pressure release valve. Had to bleed the upstairs radiators several time and the downstairs ones take forever to heat up. Have to top up nearly every day before it fires up. Always used to pack up just before Christmas but has been fine for two years until recently. I was planning to have a Baxi replace it - it is a Chaffoteaux & Maury and pretty much obsolete. My daughter had a Worcester Bosch fitted which doesn't fill me with confidence. Was going to have one fitted last summer but of course it was running perfectly then. Today's grump us that I was leaning down to pick up the phone charger lead that I dropped on the floor. My office chair shot away from under me and dumped me on the corner of the bed (wood) and I now have bruised ribs, this happened yesterday evening and it was a bugger to get to sleep as I mostly sleep on that side but continually turn over as my arms start to hurt after a while. Sounds as though the diaphragm in the pressure vessel has lost air. When this happens the water is ejected via the pressure relief valve when the system heats up. You may be able to fix it just by using a bike pump to top up the diaphragm. If not you will need a new pressure vessel. Link to post Share on other sites
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