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Greetings all, haven't been here for a long time :wink: A customer had a problem with DHW going hot-cold-hot, etc. Also complained of F23 fault code regularly. The fault log confirmed this. After descaling the DHW H/E I found the gas valve was not modulating properly, just oscillating...

The last few weeks have opened my eyes to the ineptitude and lack of enthusiasm for catching the cowboys at CORGI and the HSE; to elaborate... Called to new customer's house to investigate lack of heating or hot water function from new boiler installation (regular system boiler 24kW)...

I have an Escort Van with lower than normal power throughout the rev range, though especially poor at low to medium revs. The model is 1.8D normally aspirated, 1999 (V) with 120,000 miles. I only have a little history as follows:- 1. It has been like this since I bought it a year ago at...

My son has just stolen the hard drive off my desktop and installed it into his PC. He has transferred all of his music files (his "library") onto this new drive (d: ) but now keeps getting prompted to buy new licences when he tries to play the music. What can he do/what should he have done to...

Hi all, I got POST error messages 00161 and 00163 yesterday and the PC will not boot-up. The codes (from IBM website) indicate a dead backup battery and lack of date/time data. This is consistent with the fault, and the battery certainly was dead ( should be 3v, measured <0.2v). I have replaced...

Called to a customer's house at the weekend (and missed the 1st half of the Argie game :x ). He had a pinhole leak on the cold water mains. On trying to cut-out a section of pipe to make a repair using a standard Kopex cutter I found the pipe was so thin it would crush as the cutter rotated. It...

I am looking for a device which will extend my wireless broadband to a house about 3/4 mile away, so we can play games over "our" network and share a broadband connection without having to pay for two lots of broadband. Clearly it must have good security and, knowing the exaggerated range...

I have a 1.8 non-turbo diesel Escort van, 1999 (V) model with 105,000 miles on the clock. When I bought it there was abox in the back with timing belts and pulleys in, so I have assumed these have been replaced. The power is extremely low, though it is relatively smooth. I have to use at least...

Hi all, I'm building a new PC for my son (the last time I did this the Pentiums had just come out!), and we're having problems getting the thing to even start booting so help with the diagnosis would be appreciated. The motherboard is Asus P5ND2 SLI EAYZ with 16x PCI Express. The cpu is...

Greetings learned comrades, I recently had cause to visit a friend's house in the south of France (colder than here!). As luck would have it the boiler packed up, and as I was the last one stood next to it I got the job of fixing it. (Usual Honeywell double solenoid failure on a VK4105 valve)...

Is it OK to park on double yellow lines if you have matching hazard lights flashing away? It seems many people think so. I can't really see the point of them, if a driver is parked in such a position that they cause a hazard, then putting on flashing yellow lights will not change that, it...

A friend of mine has a TVR Chimera which she is loathe to drive because, as she describes it "the immobiliser cuts in whenever the engine is stopped." She believes that there are 8 seconds allowed between opening the doors (with the remote fob) and turning the ignition on or it won't start...

Mrs Meldrew finally got me to strip out the bathroom last week, I have a tank fed system with about 3m static head at the bath filler point, 28mm pipework most of the way, reducing to 22mm for the last couple of metres. The old bath filler used to fill the bath in less than 5 minutes (about...