Oddly, I had a Vaillant which was the most unreliable POS I've ever experienced, and the Alpha that replaced it (reccomended by a heating installer) has, so far (~4 years?), been reliable (crosses fingers). One look at the rat's nest of jumbled wire in the Vaillant's control box didn't exactly give me confidence. Mind this wasn't helped by the fact that only proper Vaillant engineers seemed to know how the bloody thing worked.