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When I got around to fixing my heating system I discovered that I had one single glowplug working. The engine had still sprung to life, it just took 30 seconds of cranking and produced a fog bank that obscured most of my road. Got to hand it to the twin battery system for managing to crank it for that long without even slowing.Originally Posted by McMav
I had a glowplug go and wouldn't have known if it weren't for the EML - fired up just as good on three as it had ever done. But yeah, loosing all but one is a little different
Well, we went over today and it fired up first time!
It isn't as cold here as it was yesterday, he saw a thermometer read about -20C yesterday. I guess something had frozen and was stopping fuel getting into the engine, hence the lack of go.
"If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room!"
- me, 2005
My car was fine, it started fine just like a normal day to be honest but it took me an hour to dig the ice out to actually get it moving (I spent an hour yesterday as well!)
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Sorry for the minor hijack but i have a 55 Golf 2.0 TDI im finding it starts ok but its fairly hard ti get it into gear with this cold weather anyone else experiencing this? especially reverse after my journey.
Modern Common Rail diesel systems should be able to deal with these conditions to a point. Older diesel cars would be more of a worry, especially if they haven't been serviced lately.
i'm getting same fog at rear looks like faulty plugs then only a week to go
The fog in this case is unburnt derv making it's way out of the tailpipe. Does it run like a bag of spaners for a few seconds when it starts?
Yup then its fine and yum at that diesel smell from the exhaust. Just cant beat it :S
Yeah, typical plug problem. Normally it's just the plugs want changing, you can actually test their resistance to get and idea of what they're doing but they're cheap enough to just change as a set, I think.
I went overkill on mine. Replaced the relay, beefed up the wiring, and put a much thicker busbar on.
These plugs are only 8 months old
They will be changed for free at service
How long is your journey?
how 'hard' would you consider fairly hard? If it's ok after a decent journey, it's probably just the cold affecting the fluids, don't worry too much as long as there's no grinding or judder on the clutch?
Nah theres no grinding i think it was just the extreme cold its back to normal now, it would go into gear just required a little more effort.
15 miles
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