Poor design TV aerial system

[Dustydog]

No terrestrial TV last two weeks away😥

Did a structured continuity test from the aerial via the amplifier back to the cable TV end. Dead between the amplifier and TV🤬.The cable disappears into a hole in the ceiling and comes out of another hole 6 feet away. Solution. Install a new cable. Impossible to pull the old one out.
After removing two panels and the microwave, eureka. Found the problem . A cable joiner behind the microwave had come apart! Must be all the years of vibration. A quick clean up and retighten, all working again.

Why on earth Bailey didn’t use a single section is beyond me. How would you know the join was behind the micro wave. Very poor design again 🙉

 

[otherclive]

Must have been those Shropshire potholes that started the failure. Nice work finding it. 👍

 

[borderbilly]

I would have wrapped it in insulation tape

 

[Dustydog]

I would have wrapped it in insulation tape

More weight!😁

 

[Beachball]

At least you found the problem and sorted it

 

[Buckman]

Bailey are doing you a favour by getting the grey matter moving so you should be thanking them for their wonderful design. LOL. 🤣 🤣

 

[Dustydog]

Bailey are doing you a favour by getting the grey matter moving so you should be thanking them for their wonderful design. LOL. 🤣 🤣

There really is something wrong the way caravans are still designed to be failures.

The Prof mentioned this point yesterday.

Every time we go away something breaks , I honestly can’t remember when we had a breakdown free holiday. Last week the grill started playing up. More dirt / rust in the gas pipes.

A tap with my mini hammer fixed it. But I expect by the end of the season I will have to remove and strip down and clean the grill for the fourth time in 17 years🙀.

 

[Andy Norfolk]

I often think people who design things should be made to use them and maintain them. I used to work in facilities management and had hundreds of arguments (debates) with architects during fit outs who would propose something that looked lovely but was virtually impossible to clean or maintain. Generally they stared into space as if I was talking a foreign language.

 

[Buckman]

I often think people who design things should be made to use them and maintain them. I used to work in facilities management and had hundreds of arguments (debates) with architects during fit outs who would propose something that looked lovely but was virtually impossible to clean or maintain. Generally they stared into space as if I was talking a foreign language.

Didn't the Jag XJ have a seal between the gearbox and engine costing less than £1, but thousands to remove the engine to access the seal? That is very poor design with no forward thinking. I think the Discovery had a similar issue?

 

[Sam Vimes]

Yes every time we go away something breaks. This time Mrs V's wrist.

 

[otherclive]

Didn't the Jag XJ have a seal between the gearbox and engine costing less than £1, but thousands to remove the engine to access the seal? That is very poor design with no forward thinking. I think the Discovery had a similar issue?

Some cars particularly with small engines require the engine to be removed to change the cambelt. Wet cam belts do go longer than dry cambelts but as Stellantis have revealed some of their 1.0 and 1.2 Puretech engines haven’t given the service required. Hence the recent compensation scheme going back to 2012 on some cars.

 

[birdman101]

Didn't the Jag XJ have a seal between the gearbox and engine costing less than £1, but thousands to remove the engine to access the seal? That is very poor design with no forward thinking. I think the Discovery had a similar issue?

Yes I can confirm the Discovery did,bought it new and had to replace when a few months out of warranty. The worst new vehicle I ever bought. New gearbox at 6 days old, every time you let foot of accelerator it jumped out of gear.Fortunatly warranty did cover that.

 

[Hutch]

Same as almost everything built, cheapest possible components, put together by the cheapest labour, sold for the highest cost.

 

[borderbilly]

There really is something wrong the way caravans are still designed to be failures.

The Prof mentioned this point yesterday.

Every time we go away something breaks , I honestly can’t remember when we had a breakdown free holiday. Last week the grill started playing up. More dirt / rust in the gas pipes.

A tap with my mini hammer fixed it. But I expect by the end of the season I will have to remove and strip down and clean the grill for the fourth time in 17 years🙀.

Should have bought a lunar 👌

 

[Hutch]

Should have bought a lunar 👌

Buy one , get one free for spares. Didn't Lunar go bust 🤔🤔🤔

 

[Sam Vimes]

Yes every time we go away something breaks. This time Mrs V's wrist.

Happened just before we set off but it wasn't going to stop us. Just more work for me.

Back to fracture clinic the day after we return.

 

[Sam Vimes]

I often think people who design things should be made to use them and maintain them. I used to work in facilities management and had hundreds of arguments (debates) with architects during fit outs who would propose something that looked lovely but was virtually impossible to clean or maintain. Generally they stared into space as if I was talking a foreign language.

I agree....more and more I see form replacing function.

 

[Sam Vimes]

Some cars particularly with small engines require the engine to be removed to change the cambelt. Wet cam belts do go longer than dry cambelts but as Stellantis have revealed some of their 1.0 and 1.2 Puretech engines haven’t given the service required. Hence the recent compensation scheme going back to 2012 on some cars.

My daughter's Feista has the wet belt system. She's recently spent just under £1k having it replaced.

My Qashqai has a regular dry belt that needs changing at 144k miles if normal driving.
72k if you drive it hard, whatever that means.

 

[Dustydog]

My daughter's Feista has the wet belt system. She's recently spent just under £1k having it replaced.

My Qashqai has a regular dry belt that needs changing at 144k miles if normal driving.
72k if you drive it hard, whatever that means.

The fatally flawed Eco boost wet belt engine. I’d ask Ford for every penny spent .

 

[borderbilly]

Buy one , get one free for spares. Didn't Lunar go bust 🤔🤔🤔

yes they went bust, my 2016 is still going strong with no probs, unlike recent, newer vans that leak like a sieve as soon as they roll out from dealers showroom.