MtB

Nobody has commented on these bits so far, I don't think. I've seen the smoke you describe and I think it is from excess fuel that is hot but hasn't ignited properly during the attempted start-up. The fact it is coming from both the air intake and from the exhaust tells us the main motor is not running when it should be. It also tells us the ignition sequence has got as far as delivering fuel and trying to ignite it. Consequently I'm inclined to suspect main motor failure as the control board must think the motor is running or it wouldn't have heated the glow plug or started the fuel delivery. This would be consistent with your comment about the usual 'louder' noise the unit normally makes, being missing. Bear in mind I'm a gas boiler specialist though, applying gas principles to a Webasto about which I know very little.

Yep, not surprised. I've been giving the cheap chinese diesel heater quite a beating this last couple of days. They really are good bits of kit for the money!!

Truth is I dunno. The main section of the Basy was restored but I'm describing the short bit at the far end, beyond the bat-infested Greywell tunnel which hasn't had a boat on it since the tunnel collapse in (at a guess) the 1960s. So would never have been 'restored' as there was no access to it. Funny you should say that. I was only moaning on another site that all the potholes Starmer promised to get fixed were still there 48 hours after he got elected! What's he been DOING, all this time!!

And there is at least one more on its way down in your direction. Steerer in a big warm coat and waterproof trousers, this fine summer morning!

Well its pleasing to hear there is some enforcement going on in at least one place on the system. Here on the eastern K&A there has been none since Covid and piss-taking has been rife. I grant that the four boats that spent two years between them on the 48hr VMs here have now gone so maybe CRT finally noticed and sent an email or two...

And there is at least one stretch of canal showing just how well that model works. The Basingstoke west of the (closed) Greywell tunnel has no boats on it and is a delightful, idyllic stretch of canal, filled with crystal clear water so you can see the fish and all other the aquatic life in there. Much used and loved by loads of walkers, naturalists and the the local public in general. The rest of the canals (with boats on) are a disgrace in comparison. All churned up and full of mud. I wouldn't be at all surprised if getting rid of the boats is CRT's main, unwritten, long term objective. Managing the system with boats and boaters gone will be SO much easier, and cheaper, and all those KPIs more easily met.

Quite. Holes in the ground happen all over the countryside and they are a natural hazard everyone needs to be aware of, not just on towpaths. If CRT ran around spending £ms filling all the holes in people would complain they put too much earth in, or too little....

Brill, so they have lots of other options then and there's no problem. Thanks.

Good point. That's probably what's happening...

In which case CRT will definitely chuck you off after a year or two.

I appreciate that but impossible? 100% guaranteed impossible? No, hence the test. To force the user to get the dosing pump fixed if it is letting by.

"London London houseboat residents fear rise in mooring fees will price them out" With headlines like this, about the cheapest way by a long chalk to live in central London, I often wonder what they mean by "price them out". Price them out into what? Tents on the towpath? Three-bed semis in a good part of Leeds?

That's an oxymoron! But no, and besides I'd be too embarrassed to admit it anyway!

On older gas boilers a similar check is done but not for the reasons you describe. A flame test is carried out to check there is no pilot flame present when there should not be. If there is, this would indicate the gas valve is incorrectly passing gas even when turned OFF. Is it possible for the "FLAME WAS DETECTED PRIOR TO COMBUSTION 2006" error report to be happening because it is, genuinely, detecting a flame before it starts the ignition sequence? Pretty unlikely unless fed from a day tank higher than the appliance. Perhaps the OP could clarify if the fuel tank is lower or higher than the Webasto.

None of any of my many boats over the years has ever done it.

Unfortunately there is no winding 'ole at the far end though, by the lock...

I can imagine it encouraging people to throw stuff in, to see if it eats it....

It is the responsibility of the VAT registered business to determine and charge the correct rate of VAT according to the rules set out by HMRC. If the VAT registered business has been liquidated by the time HMRC decides to challenge a zero rate sale, I reckon they are stuffed. I very much doubt they can decide to go after the customer of that business instead, and I'v e seen no proper evidence so far that they can, or do.

It's a very flexible term, a bit like that other term "The rich". Often occurs in discussions about taxation. To most people, "The rich" means anyone with more money than themselves. Similarly, the term "alcoholic", to me means anyone who drinks more than I do

Thanks for the photo. Does it still do it now you've lifted the floor panel over the engine?

You can't contract out of your legal liability. And you've produced no evidence to support your assertion other than an sketchy anecdote that it happened, on some random website no-one has ever heard of.

Yes, the builder.

Not only that but casually Googling snippets of Alan's supposed quote throws up no results for me. Plenty similar but none th same although I didn't put much effort in. So too am I'm wondering were the statements were copy/pasted from.

Lots of paddles on the south Oxford are "stiff as hell". Surprisingly, slathering the spindle with oil frees most of them up a treat. The difference can be quite staggering, far more than one might expect just with some spindle lubrication. I carry my oil can up to every lock these days as CRT appears to have stopped routinely lubing the paddle gear along here.

I'm massively put off, all this chat about vollies intefering!