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We are doing that now ,but I think apart from habit ,it needs repairing anyway, but ( the wife deals with the bills I just work), we never used the c/h at all or the water for about a three month period last year and got a 80 pound bill which all we could put it down to was the pilot light!? we...

my emersion heater eelement has gone ( previously ages ago I had got the old element out or bits of it it had rusted off and fell to the bottom of the tank! ( I buckled the tank in the process but sealed a pinprick and replaced the element) . Now this one had gone I cannot get it to budge and...

Hi ,thanks, Yes Iv just read up on that,had my loft converted this year so not too keen on starting up there with another tank! I have seen a glendhill primatic for sale mine is 400mm this is 450mm do you think my pipes would couple up to this given the slight difference in size?

My primatic has given up the ghost ,or more ,I have . Been looking around and (please correct me)an indirect tank does basically the same job as a primatic, coil comes in with the central heating water passing through heats up the water ,or the element can heat it up from the tank. If that is...

to finish ,it failed again,took it tio another guy who before looking at it said you need a new backbox coz he can hear it has blown!( 3 other guys have been there first by the way ) . sure enough he got it up pointed out the holes to me ,changed the backbox,I took it back to the mot guy who...

Just had it in to be checked at the local garage and it passed the emmissions tests with flying colours,now to see if it passes the mot tests tommorow! If they put in the same licence number would the same emmisions test be carried out or could tghey differ from place to place?

Well I have bought one and fitted it and in my mind the car `feels` like its running better,dont know if its something you would notice after changing one of these? Am going to get theemmisions tested by a garage for a tenner ,to see if it will pass before running it back to the mot...

Truth is I dont want to fork out a lot if I can help it as im planing on downsizing once it passes (hopefully) . So even if the universal gets me through I will be happy enough! The paperwork that came with the car said the cat had been changed a few years back too.

thats exactly what im hopeing for!!

Looking at getting a universal sensor off ebay ( crimp the 4 wires together), as i v been told if the sensors out the co will be out too. was tested in council run station but after checking with Local garages ,seems they( local garages) will try to change the cat for megabucks and insist on...

ta. it idles ok to me always starts first time never seems to kangaroo or anything ,runs great. ,but since the first fail I had also used two containers of additives designed to clear away all the gunk and lower your emmissions in to the petrol for a week before the test ,and I used the...

Fiat Brava x reg failed mot last week on a few minor faults and the CO emmisions and lambda tests. I sorted out the minor probs and then to hopefully pass the emmisions failure did an oil change changed the spark plugs,changed the oil filter and cleaned the lambda sensor and the air filter...

cheers again tony , it is gravity fed,sorry for being dumn but what would change it from being gravity fed to needing a pump? I will check with a local plumber how much this would cost as long as i dont have to renew the whole system and can still keep the same basic set up ,thatd be great...

cheers tony, But im under the impression that with the primatic the central heating boiler still heats up the tank with a kind of inner coil/air bubble giving me hot water in the cylinder and /or heating, wereas another emmersion heater tank will only give me hot water and wont allow the boiler...

yes im afraid it is, It is a long story but the old element rotted in half ,inside the tank it took me weeks to free the element nut ,but while trying to free the nut first time tank buckled. had a 11 inch so put that in till i got, ithink a 24 inch one but found trying to free the nut again the...

me again! It works at present but just as it did before I tidied up the wires it still cuts out at a certain temperature ( i guess a temperature ,it gets half the tank hot,the top half obviously) then trips,but as before with the old thermostat will only work when i pop in the little red reset...

thanks john i get that about the copper ,it became all brittle and grey, and it is braided cotton type so i will change it too. how out of date is type of wiring,is it from the 80s /90s/life on mars type 70s retro cable?! :lol: I know the house had bakerlite black sockets and intertwined...

I have just cut it down to a neat end reconected to thermo and its working ,even though plastic is black where like you said tony it arced. it is working for now but i will keep an eye on it. also on the therostat the little black arrow that heads between 30o and 75o, while I was clearing it...

Thanks tony. I will do as you say, but it was tight ,just a little bit frayed! :oops: only very little though ,but hope it was this!

thanks for all the info guys. I didnt mention , the first thermostat after resetting the trip out switch a number of times, has burned out where the live wire conected. This morning the new one has gone the same way ,plastic is slightly charred and bulbous where the live wire conected...