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A little fed up.
But it goes back to the days when your car wouldn't start and you could lift the bonnet, pop the distributor cap, adjust the points, wipe the condensation off the cap, put it back together and away you went.
Now its into the garage and plugged into the laptop. Takes away skills and to some degree job satisfaction.
That's why I like oil boilers and just listening to it or smelling the flue gas can tell you what's wrong.
Is that the hovis theme tune playing in the background!
True.
I We just had trouble with a DPF on a Transit. It took forever, cost a lot, I ended up getting involved with it and spending too much of my own time removing a blocked 5th injector. It had 4 x standing regeneration's in a garage at 40 minutes each on 3000 rpm, 2 unnecessary trips to Leeds, One Round Manchester ring road, it still runs poorly and Ford aren't interested. The DPF is clear now so it can continue to collect the soot and dirt caused by diesel combustion and if the 5th injector works, it can burn it all off and throw it out into the environment.
The Mechanics say it has a fault code on the cruise control which to be fair has had a mind of its own since birth and the van tells me it's feeling OK apart from the side door being open, which it isn't.
Bring back the Bedford CF. If it had fuel in, it ran. It didn't talk or have an opinion but it was my friend.
I had an emailed survey from Baxi the other day about boilers collecting and sending diagnostic information to me and the customer. It filled me with dread.