Hi ming,

Thanks and first time I'll drive the car again (tomorrow that is) I'm going to start the car, get it out of the garage and put the switch to ON, as temperature is around 10°C it's not going to take that long before the water reaches the some 80°C temperature I hope, will see if the whole system will switch off automatically. (Should do as nothing spec. done except the ots replaced by the switch but the modus operandi as such unchanged. Will let you know afterwards how things worked out.
Ciao.

(Remember the first time I brought this up ? Must be "some" years now, right ?? Finally got the guts to cut the bl... wires ).

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will
Td4 MY01 Steptronic 5dr. (SE Epsom green)

Willo.. Glad you've sorted it.Great job D..

Hi again,

Here a status report for the updated fbh operation...
As I said yesterday I would take the car out today and check out things, well here what I noticed:
Took the car out of the garage and put the new switch to ON, after some secs. the fbh started to work. When I arrived at the shop (about 50 kms away) the fbh exhaust pipe did not release any gasses anymore, (felt with my hand under it, the pipe was luke, I even blocked it but nothing came out), but the system was closing down it's routine I guess as I could hear a kind of spindown of a fan. After some 15-20 mins. we drove back home again and as the complete cycle wasn't apparently not finished the 1st time I put the switch to ON again as I thought, with the cooling water already close to the prescribed temperature to stop the fbh operation, this time I would notice a clearer situation when arriving home, and I did. When I arrived home everything was stopped, no fbh, no spindown and the fbh exhaust was cold. So it looks as things work as I hope they would. In complete control over the fbh start function with everything else kept as it used to be, this contrary to the other way as some members did, namely to connect the power straight into the fbh. In their case they have to cut down the power themselves I guess as I think that, as long as it gets power feeded, the fbh will keep running ?
Anyway, glad everything seems to work ok. Ciao

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will
Td4 MY01 Steptronic 5dr. (SE Epsom green)

Thanks for that willo just done the fbh mod today after a failed sensor seems to work perfectly and a bit of wire and a switch has left my bank ballance intact for once. thanks again

Correction !!!!!!!!!

The distance I did was 5 kms, irpt 5 kms and not 50 kms as in my original post. That's why the system was just in the switch down routine when I arrived at the shop. After 5 kms. Sorry.
(Guess everyone who read my first post must have thought the bl... thing didn't work as after 50 kms still not closed down completely... )

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will
Td4 MY01 Steptronic 5dr. (SE Epsom green)

Hi cwinossett,

Congrats.
And only as a matter of pure finance it's worth to be done. Also when not really needed it will now save the dieselfuel it otherwise would have burned idle....

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will
Td4 MY01 Steptronic 5dr. (SE Epsom green)

Hi all,

With the temperature being only 2°C I made this afternoon a couple of very short trips, each time I returned home I entered the car in the garage, mostly to enjoy the absolute silence and good smell in the garage with no running down FBH anymore, was a real delight.

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Td4 MY01 Steptronic 5dr. (SE Epsom green)