Vaillant Boiler not firing

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I drained my system to change a TRV, since filling it back up i can't get the boiler to fire up. There is no model on the boiler itself and we have no manual withit. It is at least 15 years old but has run unproblematically for years.

The system has plenty of water in it, ie (1.25 bars), I have bleed and bleed the radiators to ensure that there is no air in the system yet still it won't fire. The temp is down to 30 degrees and so one would think that when you turn it back on it would automatically heat the water up. The pump and fan both sound like they are working and in fact if I turn the CH on, they continuously run but still the boiler doesn't heat up.

The fault light never comes on and now I am at a complete loss as to what has gone wrong, surely changing a TRV shouldn't be that difficult.

Any ideas, have I seriously overlooked something?
 
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Relight the pilot light?

Reset the boiler.

Take the front cover off you should find something telling you the boiler
make and model under there and therefore get a manual off the internet for it.
 
Believe me I have searched high and low for a model number, even when covers off there is no model number.

There also seems to be no reset button only a fault suppresssion switch.

And also can find no where to relight pilot light
 
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Its probably a VCW 242 or 282. Check the auto air vent top back right of the boiler and give it a vigorous shake and tap. It sounds like your boiler is air locked.
 

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