I don't believe it
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:11 pm
Pardon me for the Victor Meldrew quote:
After my expensive overhaul of La Valentine I had an intermittent failure of the micro switch under the water tank, some days I had to jiggle the tank up and down to get it to engage the pump, the last occurrence a week ago looked permanent.
Today I stripped the machine down to get the part number of said switch, then I did a routine check of the fuses. I didn't mention this when I got it back from the service, but some of the external parts were not the originals I had sent with the unit. Some were from a much older or neglected machine but I was too glad to get it back to complain. Wish I had now. Would you believe that the engineer doing the service had blown the main fuse and to fix it had shorted it across the fuse with a length of wire. I will put it together again this week and hope the problem is cured, a new micro switch will be ordered just in case.
I paid well over £400 for this service and am rather pissed at such shoddy workmanship. Anyone here had similar experience?
After my expensive overhaul of La Valentine I had an intermittent failure of the micro switch under the water tank, some days I had to jiggle the tank up and down to get it to engage the pump, the last occurrence a week ago looked permanent.
Today I stripped the machine down to get the part number of said switch, then I did a routine check of the fuses. I didn't mention this when I got it back from the service, but some of the external parts were not the originals I had sent with the unit. Some were from a much older or neglected machine but I was too glad to get it back to complain. Wish I had now. Would you believe that the engineer doing the service had blown the main fuse and to fix it had shorted it across the fuse with a length of wire. I will put it together again this week and hope the problem is cured, a new micro switch will be ordered just in case.
I paid well over £400 for this service and am rather pissed at such shoddy workmanship. Anyone here had similar experience?