What made your day a crap one??

As far as I'm aware this is a shaving forum, not a gentleman forum. Sorry to hear of your misfortune lately MarkB. Hope things look up for you soon.

What made my day crap? After fitting a third new heater valve on my fiesta after the original disintegrated in traffic, losing all coolant and making me look stupid at rush hour, the first new one wouldn't shut off the hot air at all, the second worked for a week then same story, I went with a third OEM part which doesn't shut off the hot air at all. At a considerably higher price. So now it's another part of my weekend which will be wasted removing it, getting a lift back to euro for a replacement, then a while fannying around fitting it and praying that the 4th brand new one actually works. All while in the mean time driving to and from work in rush hour traffic with the heating jammed on full.
 
I'm trying to trace a draft in the house - cold air pouring through the floor in the bedrooms. So there's a 'lean-to' extension against the side of the house and pipes coming from it through the skirting in my room - eureka!
Can of foam bought, all the gear on, rechargeable work light etc - sorted. Open up the hatch - get covered in crap - Yorkshire stone flagged roof.
Joists totally covered in insulation.
Go and get some planks to use as crawl boards, get up in the roof can see the culprit at the far end of the crawl space.

Light dies...

Didn't recharge it first as it showed full battery, apparently the battery lights on the side only reflect the amount of charge when plugged in...

ARSE!
 
Count of Undolpho said:
I'm trying to trace a draft in the house - cold air pouring through the floor in the bedrooms. So there's a 'lean-to' extension against the side of the house and pipes coming from it through the skirting in my room - eureka!
Can of foam bought, all the gear on, rechargeable work light etc - sorted. Open up the hatch - get covered in crap - Yorkshire stone flagged roof.
Joists totally covered in insulation.
Go and get some planks to use as crawl boards, get up in the roof can see the culprit at the far end of the crawl space.

Light dies...

Didn't recharge it first as it showed full battery, apparently the battery lights on the side only reflect the amount of charge when plugged in...

ARSE!
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Was that the only word you uttered? :)
 
If it's of any, even slight, consolation Count, the occasional wee peeps into your life helps me to count the blessings in my own, definitely non glam, lifestyle and fairly mundane existence.

JohnnyO. o/
 
Wishbone said:
I've fitted a few of those, mate ...... Never had any go bad .... and certainly not a whole batch of them. You sure your panel controllers are fine?
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Control panel worked fine until one of the plastic tubes disintegrated inside a hose. Putting a capless bulb into the connectors works as it should, light stays on on cold, light pulses in the middle, and is off on hot. So the panel is sending the right instructions down the wire to the valve, but its just not responding. As I said no issues at all until it was swapped, literally nothing has changed but the valve.

It surely cannot be another faulty valve, but yeah the panel is sending all the right signals as it should... Been scratching my head on it for ages!
 
SmallBeard said:
Control panel worked fine until one of the plastic tubes disintegrated inside a hose. Putting a capless bulb into the connectors works as it should, light stays on on cold, light pulses in the middle, and is off on hot. So the panel is sending the right instructions down the wire to the valve, but its just not responding. As I said no issues at all until it was swapped, literally nothing has changed but the valve.

It surely cannot be another faulty valve, but yeah the panel is sending all the right signals as it should... Been scratching my head on it for ages!
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Interesting ....... and baffling ........ You're right ...... it should be working. That's one of those problems that I hate to have ....... but at the same time, can't keep my teeth out of :)
 
Wishbone said:
Interesting ....... and baffling ........ You're right ...... it should be working. That's one of those problems that I hate to have ....... but at the same time, can't keep my teeth out of :)
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Frustrating, isn't it? Next step is pull it off, see if it opens and shuts while not in situ. Euro car parts will be sick of me before long!
 
Some utter cockwomble wiped out my bike and my wife's car last night. Both parked outside our house. Bike is probably a write off and car pretty banged up. Not impressed.
 
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