The pump has been replaced too. (just noticed I had missed that in my op)
Viessmann did come on a fixed price repair when i got the FC fault and it was afterwards they said that there may be issue with the heat exchanger which has now been replaced.
I have a viessmann combi boiler 35kW WB1B Series. around 7-8 years old.
Called an engineer and he replaced
Service cock hose from the main heat exchanger to pump, but this didn't resolve and came up with a FC fault so called
Viessmann engineer - came and cleaned inside burner and the Main heat...