magic84

welcome any pics of the supra, im selling

o and drop me a PM next time you and the gang go up chedder, if thats ok.

Spotted you today I was in the van behind you. Your cars lookin great

def a buyers market, if it keeps going like this there be worthless in a year. ive been struggling to sell, and i think anyone whos seen it will say its mint.

Think i've finally got the ride height just where i want it....

Looks cool, but how in the earth do you cope with speed bumps??

love it, will this end up the same colour as the rest of the drift teams cars??

they were buzzing my house last weekend for a show there amazing, r.i.p

just found this and thought the last couple of drift moves were quite impressive.

damm it i would have loved to come to this but mums getting married on the 9th so ill be a little worse for wear, but if im ok ill come along and find you all

was it a grey gtr if so he used to have a mental rx 7

i use meg's for everything couldnt recomend it enough.

 

What I use too, you seem to be getting a better shine though, what Meg's?

what i do;

1. snow foam leave for 15 mins

2.rinse.

3.megs liquid gold two bucket method

4.rinse

5.megs clay bar (every 6months or so)

6.megs step one paint restore.

7.megs step two somthing

8. megs step three wax

some times use the megs quick detailer too.

i use meg's for everything couldnt recomend it enough.

That's right my where I live, you should have said hello!

suprised you didnt see us we were out for hours and took loads of pics all over the place, these are just the ones hes taged me in on face book, so will put the rest up when i have them. ill give you a shout next time as he has a go pro were gunna mount on the car.

me and a mate went out last nite and took these,

I just drive up the inside of the idiots and carry on down the 'slow' lane, completely legal unless you are weaving between lanes to make progress.

 

Yep, me too

 

+2

 

Don't stress it. Undertaking rules.

+3

or when your in a van thats limited sit on there ass and flash like mad they soon get the idea

As a general rule of thumb I would always avoid a combi if possible. Where there is no other option then fair enough but never as a first choice. This come's from someone who until very recently owned a company manufacturing domestic central heating boilers including combi's.

what company and why?

 

I work on combi's and system boilers everyday... whats the reason for not using a combi?

 

 

Don't get me wrong Combi's have there place but if I was spending my own money I would still avoid. Over the years I've seen combi's become the thing to fit and in some circumstances for good reasons, One problem though is the amount of installations where a combi is chosen simply because it's the easiest/cheapest option without enough thought for the demands to be placed upon it. The most regular customer complaint we came across was of poor DHW on combi boilers, usually the boiler would be working to spec though and it was just that it did not produce the dhw the user was used to from their traditional system. You could argue this isn't an issue with the boiler and more the person specifying the correct boiler however I think it's still something to bear in mind.

 

The other common issues with combi's included things like scale formation, where I am the water is exceptionally hard and it's not unknown for plate heat exchangers to fur up in just a few months, diverter valves becoming stuck due to scale build up and diaphragms splitting. Yes you can get water softeners to help with this but in the testing we did the cheap ones just didnt work and the expensive ones are expensive!

 

All combi's however well designed will have more components, moving parts, fittings, joints ect than a traditional boiler and all intricately crammed into a much smaller space than a traditional heating system so there has to be more potential for problems.

 

I see you say you work on Combi's everyday, would that be because they break down the most regularly? That's certainly my experience.

 

I'm not saying combis are rubbish just people should be aware they are not the be all and end all. If a particular combi fits a specific situation fair enough, we have sold many many combi's and have many many happy customers with them just be aware of the extra complexity of them and so the extra potential for problems.

 

As for system boilers I have no problem with them at all, they're a great compromise and if I was replacing my boiler it's what I would have. I would rather not name my company as I still have an involvement there and dont really want to become there spokesman on this forum, forgive me if I don't post on this much more either as I sold up so that I didnt have to spend 24 hours a day thinking about boilers and I'm already boring myself!

i do agree with most of what you said to be honest. I work on them everyday as my company has a massive client with over 600 site which need serviced yearly. Its not breakdowns. Most breakdowns i have been to is faulty pcb's and faulty pressure switches tbh.

 

The dhw being poor is always down to the person choosing the boiler. I'm also a design technician which allows me to have that little edge over a normal "fitter"

 

What people do forget is that you can still get efficient condensing system boilers and dont always need condensing combi's. For small properties with small occupancy i'd say the combi is a great idea but if you are talking multiple bathrooms and showers etc, ie a very large property a condensing system boiler with calorifier will always work better unless we're into massive combi's with huge heat input/output. I'm qualified for domestic and commercial properties so the boilers/burners i can work on can range from 1kw to 1MW heat inputs so i have a fairly broad insight into these things

it will always depend on what its designed to be used for, system boilers dont take that much more time to install, it's the wireing side that will take a little longer. if your house is a large one id always go for a unvented system (system boiller) as with these they have a fast recovery rate, an immertion for back up and there also mains pressure ( to the pressure reducing valve which keeps all pressure after it equal for mixer showers...) only draw back being the amount of space they take up. i think people have been put off by horror storys of it being called a "bomb", there very safe in the right hands and a number of faults have to happen before it gets to that stage. anouther benift you can have is a hot water return mainly used in commercial app's or very large house's. all this does is remove the long dead legs of cold water that need to be run off before you get hot water.

end of the day there are so many different system's to choose from, tell the installer what your require ments are and they will tell you whats best for you.

I've seen many posts saying go one way or another but many do just say "Don't get a Combi" which without any info us useless i.e. many people who fitted them when they first came out had them wrongly fitted as the water supply was not good enough.

 

A simple flow test on my kitchen tap showed it to be around 17 L/Min. This probably means it would work quite well with the Greenstar 37CDi with a flow rate of 15.2 l/min

good flow rate but a 37cdi overkill, if you get a 30kw that will be plenty and leave room for extiontion.

ive got a junior28 and think its brill, in a 3bed with one bathroom, i put mine under the stairs with it being so compact. all boilers will come with a warrenty and depending on the make you may get more than 5 years. remember tho its all well and good saying i can get the boiler for x amount, but that will not include things like a magna clean, scale reducer, chemicals and time clocks. many boiler makes insist of the magna clean and scale reducers being fitted for the warrenty to be valid.

drop in value!!!! have you not seen the ones in the for sale section there a steel