Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: simon w on November 21, 2019, 08:05:54 pm
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Mines booked in for next Tuesday with a local authorised Webasto service engineer.
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I need to book mine in with Grippa had my 9kw a year now.
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I need to book mine in with Grippa had my 9kw a year now.
Do you live local to Grippa? if not can't you find a local authorised Webasto engineer?
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Nearest place to me that service them is Edenbridge but Grippa will hopefully join me in with another when they are in my area
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had mine 2 years in december...so no i wont be getting it serviced.....pure freedom told me not to bother as they very rarely go wrong....mine still works perfectly,same batteries too......
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I need to book mine in with Grippa had my 9kw a year now.
why?if its still working fine?splash and dash has had his for 5 years with no service...it still works perfectly fine day in/day out...grippa will charge you around £450!
loads of window cleaners have had these heaters for years with no service,their built to last a long time
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No doesn’t need servicing mine is now 5 years old and run for over 10,000 hours never been serviced and runs sweet as a nut just the same as the first day I had it , my local dealer said if it’s working fine there is nothing to service , so until I get problems or clouds of smoke I will carry on using it .
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i think if your getting a lot of smoke out of the exhaust on start up and shut down(when its not a cold day)then i think its time for a new burner,mines fine for now.....
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Mines booked in for next Tuesday with a local authorised Webasto service engineer.
lets us know how much he charges for it mate.i will get a burner change done one day but no need at the moment.cheers.
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You guys haven't changed your coolant or in line fuel filters for 2-5 years?
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My service takes 30 minutes and costs £15 .
For that I get a full clean of burner and heat exchanger , new glow plug and screen and fuel filter !
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The only reason I was getting it serviced was because I don’t know how to service this burner the other 5kw I knew like the back of my hand,my other heater worked like a dream for years also apart from fuel pump and me changing the burner by choice. If you get plooms of white smoke on start up it’s either the burner or as said they have fuel filters.
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That is the thing with the 5kw it’s easy to work on you can replace everything on them in little time,I could change a burner on the 5kw in well under an hour all back together and working again.
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You guys haven't changed your coolant or in line fuel filters for 2-5 years?
I did change the coolant a couple of years ago , but no fuel filter change it’s running perfectly wabasto said it doesn't need a service ,they could easily have charged me for one but saw it working plugged it into the lap top and said it’s running fine nothing needs doing , they fit hundreds of there’s heaters in boats including much larger units than the 9kw , who am I to argue with the main dealer if they say it’s fine I will accept what they say .
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You guys haven't changed your coolant or in line fuel filters for 2-5 years?
no....not done anything to it.....
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Just had my Webasto Thermo Top C serviced.
Three hours work £200! Actually took a lot less but he had his lunch break in the middle of it. De- coke and a new gasket.
If it fails to ignite after three attempts like mine did, it goes into lock down mode. (I spent ages trying to find fuses etc until I found out on Google).
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Yeah my other one went into lock down mode there is a way round it though,I can’t remember but Oliver did talk me through it with my 5kw heater.
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Yeah my other one went into lock down mode there is a way round it though,I can’t remember but Oliver did talk me through it with my 5kw heater.
You just completely cut the power to it for a few mins and it will reset.
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Mine has just been finished now. Had the coolant changed, a new in line fuel filter and the webasto service pack. Inluding the labour it was a little over £600.00. I'm tending to get mine serviced every other winter seems expensive to most but if it keeps us working during the coldest days of winter when cold water won't run then it's money well spent in my eyes anyway.
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Bargain!
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Bargain!
Was the £200.00 labour only or labour and service pack?
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Labour and a gasket. Guy who serviced it said it’s a forty five minute job to strip, clean and do a diagnostic check. The heater is four years old and probably only run for ten to twenty hours in total (it’s in my boat). The hire boats (narrowboats) get theirs serviced up to three times a year but they are running on red diesel.
I think a service kit which includes gaskets and glow pin is around £200 😳
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I have heard that some BMW’s have them too and can be bought for £50 from a scrapper, not checked myself but there is a big scrapyard up the road from me 🙂
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Mine has just been finished now. Had the collant changed, a new in line fuel filter and the webasto service pack. Inluding the labour it was a little over £600.00. I'm tending to get mine serviced every other winter seems expensive to most but if it keeps us working during the coldest days of winter when cold water won't run then it's money well spent in my eyes anyway.
each to their own.....but im not going to bother with mine as it still works as good as the day i had it installed....
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Mine has just been finished now. Had the collant changed, a new in line fuel filter and the webasto service pack. Inluding the labour it was a little over £600.00. I'm tending to get mine serviced every other winter seems expensive to most but if it keeps us working during the coldest days of winter when cold water won't run then it's money well spent in my eyes anyway.
each to their own.....but im not going to bother with mine as it still works as good as the day i had it installed....
If I was a sole trader I wouldn't worry about it so much either Daz but employing I need to know they can work regardless how cold it gets so keeping my work equipment in good working order is a priority for me. Sods law a water heater is going to cause problems mid winter in freezing weather rather than mid summer when it's not essential.
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I think I may start reading the manual on the pro 90 lol,the thing is with the new heater I have everything is very busy and rammed into that cabinet easy to take apart not so easy to put back together again.
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I think I may start reading the manual on the pro 90 lol,the thing is with the new heater I have everything is very busy and rammed into that cabinet easy to take apart not so easy to put back together again.
if its running fine why bother mate?yours is only a year old,mines 2 years old and its still exactly the same
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Once they start going wrong though m8 fuel pumps easy enough to change so are the plate exchangers but it’s busy in there,lots to take out before you can change a simple thing like that.