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Yes could be a good run to Eberdeen. If you can finalise a date, then I would probably be up for this too cheers Ian

Easiest way to find out is do a check on your gas meter. Run your boiler for 1hour and take a note of the Start and Finish readings at your meter and calculate how many units you've used. Then do the same with your gas fire and then compare readings. But remember that as previously stated that your gas fire is only heating one room, whereas your central heating is the whole house. Cheers Ian

Wait until we have a Meet, and then follow us - cause we take in half of Scotland on one of our runs (lol) Althought I think we are two cars down, since our last one. Hope you have a good time wherever you decide to go. Cheers Ian

Never actually gave any a good inspection, just a quick glance in the passing- and they usually "look" alright. I suppose if anyone goes anywhere to inspect a vehicle, they should try and take along someone with a bit of car knowledge along. cheers Ian

Keep an eye on the pressure level for the next few weeks. If the pressure continues to drop - then you may have a leak in your ch system. If so get your installer back to check. If your going to air your radiators then remember to repressurise your ch system back to approx 1.5 bars. Get the man paid - no wonder us heating engineers never have any money !!!!!! (lol) cheers Ian

Got to agree with Harvard. What with the acidic reaction in condensing boilers and most of the components made of plastic - the majority of new boilers are sh*te. We look after thousands of 20 year+ combi boilers, but the current boilers are never going to be around for half of that time. Cheers Ian

Ian, dont know too much about Catrine - even though it is only about 20 miles away from myself. But I see that your avator states "Borders" , I take it you've moved south from Inverness then ?? Cheers Ian

Welcome m8, Probably the best dealer (in my opinion) in Scotland is possibly Dicksons of Dunblane. Their motors are usually in quite good condition and the prices are fair. Have a look on their website to see what they have. Cheers Ian

sorry to hear this Irvy. It was a beautiful looking motor. At least your uninjured and you can always get another soop ( or even a Nissan 300zx ). One less for our meets for the moment. hope we'll see you in another soop soon. cheers Ian

Does your new wife-to-be know about this yet ????? or are just going to spring it on her, once you are hitched. (lol) Welcome to the club, and hope you'll manage along to some of the Scottish meets this year, with or without a soop - that is is your wife will let you. cheers Ian

To see Superstar-dj's car in the flesh (so to speak) - go to Club Videos (31/3/06 Perth Meet) and you'll see it in all its glory Cheers Ian

Hi Alan, Cant believe your selling it, how are you going to woe all the chicks now !!! Having seen this car several times - it is a beautiful , well kept and looked after example. I guess a roofrack for the waterskis would spoil the looks of the soop. (lol) cheers Ian

Hi and welcome to the club. Auckland is a lovely city and great place to live. We manage to get over regularly, as my sister in law lives in Auckland. As Supraman stated not sure if there are many Kiwi members on the site. cheers Ian

Does anyone use musicmatch.JUKEBOX to organize their music ?? Have developed problems after attempting to upgrade to JUKEBOX 10. Having lost most files on upgrade I tried to reverse the process back to origonal JUKEBOX 8. However when trying to enter a message of "skin bitmap-not found" appears, followed by "problem with play.dll OR mixer.dll" Can anyone help ? Cheers Ian

doesn't sound as if you have trv's fiited, just the lockshield valves. I would suggest as Harvard says - adjust the pump speed and see what difference this makes, if any, hopefully that's all that will be needed. merry xmas cheers ian

As Fargo said, I wouldnt concern myself about the 12 degree difference - this is just technical talk , most heating engineers are only concerned that the rads heat up. This is your hot water cylinder, it will have an immersion heater which is turned on/off by an electrical switch, The other control on this is the hot water cylinder stat, which controls the temp of the hot water. very important that this is kept over 65 degrees to prevent legionella building up in your cylinder. Did altering the pump speed as suggested by Harvard make any difference ? Do you thermostatic radiator valves (trv's) on the side of the radiators ? cheers ian

It is what British Gas Engineers are affectionately known as within the plumbing and heating trade. due to the fact that they normally Turn OFf and then F*ck Off. But it is a term of affection though. cheers Ian

A wee bit of hindsight but !! its always a good idea (and money well spent) that when buying a house that you get the boiler and heating system professionally checked within the first 7 days. This can save you a fortune when you get around to switching on the heating and then finding out that it isnt working properly. We are finding that it is becoming a more common practice when buying a house that the solicitors/estate agents are insisting on getting the dhw/ch system checked within the statutory time limit for notification of problems, ie 7 days in Scotland. But give us more info and we may manage to help cheers Ian

We have a TOFFO in our midst (lol) cheers ian

it does help if anyone needing advice quotes the make and model, it does help to perhaps give more accurate advice. cheers ian

Jake, has pressurising the central heating (ch) system cured your hot water problem ?? If it has then thats great - if it hasnt then turn the boiler to hot water only mode, turn on the hot water tap and see if the boiler fires up in this mode. You may have a problem with the divertor valve if it doesnt fire up. What is the make and model cheers Ian

there's a silver one that resides in West Princes Street (just off Woodlands Road @ Charing Cross). Dont know if its anyone on this site though. cheers Ian

He's a beauty, Stevie Remember and take out pet insurance !!! As those vet bills can be darned expensive (lol) Cheers Ian

Martin, what about the 1 x Ofs headlight and the 3 x wheels & tyres. (lol) Cheers Ian

Welcome m8, and nice looking car. Hope we'll see you at some of the Scottish meets. Cheers Ian