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My pal uses this too and swears by it. I trip up a lot during speech to find the right words which means tangents and meanders so it doesn’t feel as natural/easy as typing. I’ll give it a go. As a teen, I once showered and grabbed the nearest deodorant on hand and turns out I smothered my pits and body in my mum’s fem fresh. Oops. Useful to know, thank you.

One day I’ll be an expert at typing in the dark on the iPad. Might not be today. But one day. 😝 Well, some have an ego the size of a hot air balloon. Sorry to hear you were berated. You have been such an excellent help to me! If I recall, the conversation went like this: there is a leak, that needs sorting before we can proceed so this will be more than a typical service of £250. I said ok that’s fine fix the thing. Nearly four weeks later I was sent the invoice when I told them I need to leave the Marina. I would expect maybe the price to double if it meant fixing the problem they identified so you can imagine my shock at a £1100 invoice.

Thought as much! Beginner naïveté is big business!

Cheers. Will pick some of that up

A leak was identified when the man looked at it. I was told this should be found before the service was completed. I said fix the leak. I was then told I needed 4 new injectors. I was informed the leak stopped. When work was entering its final week I asked how long is left because it has taken weeks. Then he cleaned up and I was told it was done. And the leak has not stopped. I was told a service cost 250 but the leak then lead to the further cost. Let me grab the invoice. Added to the list

This was a service which was 14 hours of labour over a month because of injectors needing replaced, apparently. Paid 1100 pounds. Now that you mention it the leak looks clear as day.

Have got the oil nearby and will add it tomorrow so it’s in line with top. On the dipstick the oil sits between the two lines currently

When I bought her, ages. . Now quite quickly oops ignore me

I put in 600ml of water and 400ml of antifreeze 6 times in total and it wasn’t enough as I ran out of antifreeze so put in two additional 600ml of water.

Where could I pick something like that up, out of curiosity ? Looks like the coolant helped. White smoke has stopped. Engine bay is distinctly cooler and engine sounds a little happier too.

Have popped in the coolant. Started much quicker than normal! Will keep an eye on it for an hour and see where the coolant top up level is at. It sounded thirsty when I opened the lid to the coolant filler.

Ok thanks. So I should add water and antifreeze. One third to half. How do you know what percentage? Is it weather dependent?)

Does coolant also go by antifreeze?

Some context for the situation. I had the engine serviced about three weeks ago at a marina before leaving. There they mentioned a leak but could not proceed with the service until this problem had been resolved. It was no longer a regular engine service at this point. The Marina tried to refurbish the injectors but they were eventually replaced all four of them. During the service the some of black liquid was vacuumed out from the bottom of the engine bay. It has since replenished indicating a leak somewhere. About two days ago I noticed lots of fumes from the engine bay after running the engine to top up the batteries daily without issue. I turned the engine off at this point and went to bed. I should mention I hadn’t added or done anything to the engine at this point. The next day I ran the engine for about an hour and noticed the smoke. I phoned the marina and I was told it was possible unburnt diesel and I should try to find the leak. Today I ran the engine and tried to identify where this leak may be coming from. Didn’t really get anywhere and about an hour in I noticed the smoke again and the engine bay was very hot. There is black liquid accumulating in the engine bay and I do not know where it could be from. I’ll attach a picture of the engine and from where I saw the smoke emanating. In the picture the area between the two rectangle bits with screw top. Where that black wire is going, that is where the smoke was coming from. Or steam. Today it felt more like paraffin steam more than smoke.

Rookie error. I’ll check. What am I looking for? Is it the same as a car?

Hi there, I’ve noticed that white smoke is filling the engine room and bay 1 hour after starting the engine. Not sure what this may be. Might you have an ideal? Potentially unburnt diesel, a leak somewhere. There is a smell of diesel with the steam too. Happened twice now. Scared to turn engine now but need to charge the batteries. What would you do in this instance?

Picked up three batteries from the battery store. Gonna install and hopefully end this saga lol (doubt it)

Does she rate her experience?

I need batteries and a some solar. I can pick that up at midlands chandlers? How about help installing for a complete newbie?

No wonder my batteries are on the fritz lol… ooops, Victron*

Aye, the Victorian panel in bedroom.

Seems like it shows two leisure batteries on the reader (what about the starter…?) One battery appears to be holding volts but the other goes below 12 after no time. Is that normal, that one battery might be OK?

Are they easy to pick up? There is a battery shop in market harborough

Yes fridge would shut itself off and the pump won’t turn off either, continually making a noise. Time to head to town tomorrow and get some new ones.

I spent the day cruising and had the engine on from 8am until 5pm and it seemed things were back to normal however after three hours the batteries are draining and the light went back to orange despite nothing being actively on. So it looks like I’ll need new leisure batteries.