The pilot light has gone out on our boiler it is a potterton kingfisher II we canot see how to light it

Claire Chambers, March 2006

I asume you have solved this problem by now, but have just had a similar problem myself, now solved with the help of another website, complete with diagram!
1 - switch heating control to 'O'
2 - switch main heating control / timer switch to 'on'.
3 - on top of the grey bots, which has a load of pipes / wires coming out of it (above the pilot light hole) there is a grey knob - on the top of this is a symbol which looks like a flame, and a clockwise arrow - yes we missed it too yesterday! Turn this to the right and release it immediatly.
4 - put your light / gas lighter etc into the hole and click it to ignite whilst holding down the grey button you just turned. Keep the button pressed in even if it doesn't light first time.
5 - Once lit, hold bouuon in for another 20 seconds then let go and check pilot light is still on.
6 - now stitch the control you put on '0' at the start back to where it was before (mine was set at just under 3). You should hear the main boiler / heating cut in now.

If it doesn't work you have to turn the knob and release it again, then wait 3 minutes before repeating the procedure. Mine worked the second time around, but that may have been me!

Heating now on and I'm finally warming up .

Good luck and thank God for the Internet and websites like these

Val, September 2010

I have read the instructions as to how to light the pilot light in an old potterton kingfisher 11 boiler, as on this site by J.Smith, stating hold down grey button and repeatedly press the black button, I have found a black button to the right of boiler front, but cannot see a grey one anywhere ?
There is another black button more to the left side of the boiler, different shape is this perhaps it ?
Any ideas ? I need step by step idiot proof instructions please ?! Angela

Angela, April 2009

Roger Patel, March 2008

Press and hold the grey button while repeatedly pressing and releasing the black (maybe has a red bullseye) button. When you see the pilot, keep the grey button held for a further 30 seconds then slowly let go. All this should be in the manual. You can get a manual from Baxi Potterton.
If the above doesn't work, either you spark igniter lead has come off or the thermocouple is knackered. Get a CORGI man to take over at this point.

J Smith, March 2006