My van is 18 years young and I bought those pellets Mike Brewer advertises for £45 for 5. Put them in my tank 10 years ago and can count on one hand how many times my light has came on.

Yesterday and today we were all down helping my mate who owns a garage fill 3 big holes in the garage floor where we removed the car oven from so he can get another 2 ramps fitted. I provided all the tools, Mixer, and kango. Started at 7am and finished for 1pm. We got all the stuff from B&Q because nowhere was open and I used my van 8 times to deliver it but its only 2 miles away. This will give it a week to cure and he will get the ramps fitted in 28 days when fully cured.

My starter motor went a few weeks ago and my mate swapped it over in 20 minutes because he has the 4 ton ramp. It cost me less than £150 for a new one and he did it for free. Turns out he is the handiest mate I have now but as long as we all work as a team and help each other everything just clicks into place.

What I'm trying to say is, if you find or have a mate who is a mechanic then try and hang on to them like me. I started off cleaning his windows for free and still clean them which takes 5 minutes every month. Drop in a box of orange mechanic gloves now and then when discussing how to make our working life easier but it all comes down to being a team player.

Booked my van in for MOT/service on Fri 16th Jan. I'm going to get mine done at Halfords as its very local to me here and it was the same price as my local independent garage where I used to live.(£230).

How old is your van now Daz? How do you get the DPF to regenerate properly with your short non motorway journeys? Have you had to replace DPF so far or have it cleaned? They are eventually consumable parts so just wondering if it's original on your older van?

and it will be coming out of his wages

That’s theft.

Splash, I said this before to him that I wasn't putting my hand in my pocket for anymore sections. He coughed up towards it before but just wears everything out so quickly.
I started with an old bendy Bayersan years ago and quickly went to Gardiners so I  appreciate how hard the job is with poor equipment, I'm also reluctant to buy from particular suppliers.
I had a pole for years which had clamp upgrades, lacquer etc as it was my pride and joy  but trying to get an average of what others are getting out of them.

I have 5 guys working for  me and don’t have any issues like this , I certainly wouldn’t tolerate abuse of kit like  that , accidents do happen and that’s fine but someone regularly doing that to poles would either be paying for  it or up the road