Any plumbers about or any ideas please?

What are they quoting for the repairs @Linz? If you can keep that one going for even another year or two without spending the earth on it, it might be worth doing if only to give you some time to save up for a new one?

If you do go for new, please don't do Baxi (or Potterton) - utter garbage in my experience, with control boards frequently failing. The advice not to go for a cheap boiler is also sound advice - any money saved will quickly be lost in repairs.

 

I feel your pain @Linz - in the past year, I have had to fit four tyres to the car, front brake pads last weekend, MOT due next week, it has a mysterious knocking noise at low speeds from the rear (but we can find nothing amiss), and its French DNA is beginning to show with electrical gremlins.......

Indoors, I have had to replace the vacuum cleaner, the fridge, the oven, the shower, two air conditioners, replace the water tank on the carpet shampooer, and replace the kitchen mixer tap - - oh, and the microwave's display is now so dim it can barely be seen, so I will need to get my screwdrivers out before too long for that too!

Never rains, but it chuffin' well pours

 

I am convinced it is the exhaust tapping on something as the body flexes at low speed, but I cannot find the point of contact anywhere; it has only done 24,000 miles so I am a bit disappointed that it has started to develop these niggles. The paintwork is pretty poor too if truth be told - shame, because in so many other ways it is a great car; sadly, on the basis of this experience, I doubt I will have another, as the competition has moved on considerably whereas Nissan have tried to make do with a mere facelift.