On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:11:27 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article , Ed Sirett
wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:36:33 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article , Stuart B
wrote:
" Stuff this" I said and opened up Thomson's Local Directory and
called the first place ( Corgi) that I spotted and they are doing it
on Monday . £91 incl vat .I don't know if that is typical but it gets
it done .

They did mention the cost if they find anything but I doubt they will
but even if they do they will not be fixing it .Alpha can do that .

I'd be inclined to put the 91 quid in a high interest account and take
the gamble as to the boiler giving problems. The so called service
usually is no more than a check that things are ok - and if not the
boiler installation details should say what's required.


with a 3 year warranty dependent on the 'service history'. You would be
gambling the next two years against a problem.

I'm not so sure. Makers can put whatever conditions they fancy into a
warranty - but they don't effect your rights in law. And recent judgements
suggest things like a boiler should fault free for 5 years. Of course many
might not want the bother of having to confront a manufacturer.

On my new van I decide to pay the high cost of a 'service' after the 12
months at the expensive and questionably competent main dealer. The
second year I took it to the local garage and had it 'serviced' for a
third the cost but I forewent the last years warranty (which indeed
turned out not to be needed).

I think that has also been outlawed - the requirement to use a dealer for
servicing for a warranty to be upheld. All that's needed is a record of
proper servicing having been carried out. Which is pretty basic stuff in
most modern vehicles.



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You are correct about car servicing .That "rule" was outlawed or
removed a while back .
AlphaBoilers have said in an e-mail to me that not doing an annual
service will not invalidate the 3 year warranty .I have printed it out
and kept it with the boiler documentation.

Well I got the guy out to do the service and ,as I suspected would
happen ,I'd have been as well not getting it done and save myself the
£73 . I was hard pressed to see what he actually did for the money .I
got the impression he was fiddling around to make me think he WAS
doing things but I could see he wasn't . He knew from speaking to me
that there had been no problems except for a small leak that Alpha had
fixed . He certainly didn't do all the things listed for a service in
the Alpha documentation .
From speaking to him it was clear he was an Ex Scottish Gas fitter now
working on his own but also on the books of the company that I
contacted .
Acht well..once bitten twice shy .

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