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  1. 54 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

    It is no substitute for proper faultfinding.

    However, in the case of Mastervolt, any faultfinding is severely hampered by an absence of information and outright denial of technical support (in my experience at least). Under those circumstances, a willy-nilly component change is perhaps not as willy-nilly an approach as it might otherwise be.

    My identical (defective) Mastervolt Combi unit is sitting in my garage at home awaiting inspiration or for me to get over the idea of simply throwing it away.

  2. 15 hours ago, IanD said:

    I have a theory that new users get a faster service for a few weeks to generate good customer satisfaction, then slowly fall down the pecking order. Any thoughts?

    My thoughts are that they don't do that. A friend was a big cheese at Vodaphone and he told me their customer satisfaction in the UK was one of their lowest in the world, but improving it wasn't financially viable as Brits mostly buy on low price.

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  3. 1 minute ago, MtB said:

     

    Lol!

     

    But surely it depends on the price and the OP's attitude to risk. I'd happily buy a boat like that if it was cheap enough. Chances are I'd get a decade or two of use out of it before it finally sinks, even with no further maintenance. 

     

    The corrosion in the bilge sounds like a water leak that has been fixed by the way. Or it might be a leaking window that wets the bilge only when it rains. 

     

     

    Oh I agree entirely, hence my qualification: "The price ought to be very attractive to allow for the potential effects of such neglect to be mitigated". Those potential effects might not even occur, but it would be wise to have sufficient margin in the event that they do.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

    What @nicknorman said. I rarely use the downlighters in the living area and bedroom, relying on a few low level and reading lights there for the cosiness. Ceiling downlighters in the kitchen and bathroom area. Kitchen pairs spaced 2m apart, bathroom ones at 1m, but these are old (15 years) LED modules, with only five surface mount LED's a piece. No idea what the lumens are, but tiny compared with modern "vaporise a cow at 20 paces" LED lights.

    Mine's the same as this. Each downlighter has a 1watt LED by Bedazzled - I'd suggest you wouldn't want a higher wattage lamp than that. I also have wall mounted reading spot lights in the saloon and bedroom, also 1 watt apiece which, again, is plenty. 

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  5. 16 minutes ago, jonathanA said:

    I guess if its not been blacked then has any other servicing been done ?

    This would be my concern too. If the previous owner has neglected such an obvious requiremen, just what has he bothered with? The answer is very likely to be: "not a lot". The price ought to be very attractive to allow for the potential effects such neglect to be mitigated. If not, what steps should you take?

     

    Answer: "Bloomin' great big ones!" :D

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  6. We just used the NHS app and then went to a chemist local to where our boat was. Dead easy, and they did our flu jabs at the same time. If we still have a GP (who knows?) things might have been different if we'd been desperate enough to go through them, but we gave up being disappointed by their unavailability some time ago.

  7. 6 hours ago, jonathanA said:

    presumably if hes savvy enough to know theres diesel on canal boats, he's savvy enough to know that the tanks are almost always at the back and he will know that an uphill syphon isn't going to work and come with his battery drill and pump or whatever to transfer the stuff to his transit van full of stolen church roof lead....

    Well, if you want to go all "real world" on us, I suppose you're correct, but where's the fun in imagining that instead of my version? :P

     

    ETA: That said, the scrote who visited the boat @ditchcrawler above refers to didn't, did he.

  8. 4 hours ago, David Mack said:

    Exactly my point. Which is why HMRC would go after the boatbuilder, not the customer.

    When I had a vat registered business, I found the vat man nothing but helpful. Having just helped someone who failed to register a property let with HMRC going back some 15 years (none of this "he can only go back 6 years" nonsense), I'd be more than inclined to talk to the tax man about any potential issues at the earliest indication that all may not be quite correct.  Hoping that any sweepings under the carpet will stay there is a risky business.

  9. 1 hour ago, Spudwynk said:

    Have had engine serviced, all OK but recommend getting a fuel polish

    Is the above a recommendation or a diagnosis? Only it can't be "all ok" if your fuel will cause it to happen again and neither can having the fuel polished be just a recommendation if it's a necessity. I'd look more carefully into whether you actually have a fuel issue before spending good money on polishing what may potentially be perfectly good fuel.

  10. 2 minutes ago, Tacet said:

    Whilst they are not that onerous, there are several BSS requirements for AC.  For example 3.3.1 requires all cables to be supported in a safe position.

    Yeah, but....

    Surely the extension lead, charger and croc clips can all go in the hedge for the duration of the inspection, along with the junk out of the gas locker, the generator and the petrol cans, etc? :help:

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  11. 8 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

    On Youtube 

     

    Well, I have to say I rather enjoyed that. After quite a long seafaring career I confess there's much of it I'd not even contemplate doing in my narrowboat and, even if I did have such notions, I suspect that the Long Haired Admiral would very quickly countermand any such intentions! An impressive collection - thanks for sharing it DC.

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