On 29/09/2019 14:01, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
It is new build at the moment, but as the market shrinks, manufacturers
will stop making gas boilers, even if governments don't ban them
completely - look how quickly 4* and then LRP disappeared, leaving
people with older, maybe classic vehicles having to use unsuitable
unleaded petrol.

My old car is 35 years old, yet runs happily on standard unleaded. Any old
vehicle may need some adaptation to be used today anyway.

But are you saying there was no need to ban the use of lead in things like
petrol? Just another nutty 'green' thing?

What I said was that 4* was phased out, but Lead Replacement Petrol
followed pretty quickly after. Garages simply stopped stocking it, as
sales declined. If new builds cannot have gas boilers, it is likely that
one at a time, manufacturers will stop making them. A point will then
rapidly be reached where they are not available - leaving people with a
failed boiler with a major problem.

SteveW