June 2018
Having a bit of tussle with BT. We had a lightning strike on a neighbours property. It tripped out the main trip on the consumer units in 3 properties either side. The property struck, lost the CH boiler, microwave, kettle, toaster and TV as well as the telephone and router. The adjacent properties including ours lost our telephones and routers. The trips were reset and we regained power, but our telephone and router were not working. I called out BT and they came out 4 days later and said the telephone line was working but the phone and router weren't. They sent me a new router, but I had to buy a new telephone. Ther are now trying to charge me £130 for a callout charge because it was my equipment that was faulty. I have told them I will not pay. My argument is the damage sustained was to the phone and router. The only two items connected to the telephone line. Every other appliance connected to the mains was fine, including our TV which was on at the time. Therefore the damage was only caused by being connected to the telephone line, hence down to BT to prevent or mitigate this sort of occurance. If there was a mains electrical surge, why only the telephone and router damage and not the TV and other appliances? The router was also not faulty but damaged by a force from outside, probably through the telephone line. I know there may be some specialist engineers on the forum and would like some advice please. if it is down to an 'Act of God' then fair enough I will cough up. Otherwise I think BT should shoulder this one.
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TheTexting.com offers free mass texting service, and we've discovered that educators have extremely exploited these services to speak with their understudies outside of class. When you send mass messages through TheTexting, you never observe the beneficiary's numbers - which implies instructors can convey successfully without gathering private data. Read more
I suspect "Mary Elbert " is a computer.
She/it is not going to be re-writing Shakespeare any time soon.
Are these Toyota scrappage deals in addition to any discount negotiated between the dealer and the customer Read more
"Copying the same swoopy styling cues as the hatchback" - how so? Read more
In my opinion, this 'survey' is a joke: it ONLY seems to include cars in the survey that:
a) Take up a Warranty Direct aftermarket warranty;... Read more
sorry last two post by me were in error
I have found this website excellent for codes and they are very helpful as i have to get codes on a regual basis
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Cathy, I notice, apart from making one sort of helpful comment on a post where someone had posted an obviously incorrect serial number, has not offered any codes herself - even as an enticement to visit the afore-mentioned site.
We can turn around requests for unlock codes for M serial numbers pretty quickly, as several of us can do them; for V numbers currently only one forum member can help, so these can take longer....
Just replaced my turbo on my crafter done everything as you are supposed to and tried to test drive it and no power what so ever? Read more
Saw this in the Daily Mail. It was a bit old so I did not post but the thread about £800 DRLs prompted me to.
How driving could get safer: Europe wants ALL new cars to be fitted with these eleven safety measures by 2021.... Read more
No mention of the one I'd like to see, automatic lights - to protect us from the numpty who drives after dark but does switch on the vehicle lights, presumably the dayglow DLR LED's are so bright they give an impression of headlights being on, and the dashbord lighting works at all times.
Hoping someone could give me some advice before I take my car to the garage (don't want my eyes taking out). i drove my Fiesta about 5 miles last night before parking it up for a couple of hours. When I returned to my car there was a puddle of water under the car where all of the coolant had emptied.
I topped it up and watched for any leaking and non could be seen so I drove home. I checked the car again after stopping and the coolant was dripping and the reserve tank was about half full however I still can't see where its leaking from. I have checked my car this morning and the reserve tank is still half full so it only seems to be leaking when the engine is running.... Read more
“it could be the water pump which will cost several hundred since it normally involes removing the cam belt to acsess it“
If it’s running the Zetec SE 1.24/1.4/1.6 petrol then the water pump isn’t driven by the timing belt which is a very sensible design and one less thing that could throw the belt. Failed pumps are fairly common on these however but they’re cheap to do.
I never use the aircon in my Duster, really don't see the point in this country. Anyway, I've read somewhere that the unit should be switched on every now & then, why?
& if it's isn't, what's the outcome?... Read more
If there is no gas it won't work, obviously.
When the A/C in our Kia ran dry (hole in the condensor) it made a huge racket inside the car, it was obvious something was wrong (in addition to the fact it did not cool the car). If we had kept it turned on it may well have damaged the compressor. But a new condensor and re-gas (all under Kias 7 year warranty) sorted it....
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A son was hit with lightning strike - took out Sky completely, phones, wifi, cabling to sky box & LNB.
Sky replaced LNB, all cables, Sky box etc - wifi box was with BT but we just used an old box in the interim & he swapped to Sky for BB. The indifferent service from BT, a price rise made him change....