Laurie

The exhaust seems fine, as for when it smokes it seems to be after the cars been running a while. For example I drove a couple of miles tuesday turned it off to go to tesco, home (about 1 mile) then about 40 mins later back out to get my girls. On arrival at the childminders it smoked so bad....the most I've ever seen to be honest. Today I did almost the same journeys , it smoked on initail start up but then it was fine however after I'd collected my girls it started puffing idling in traffic.Tonight when I was listening for the pumpI started it and the heater didnt fire at all. ? Thanks, Alex

Any ideas of solutions or ways to investigate these ideas 'big kev' ? Alex

I did read through it but unfortunately it doesnt seem to match my fault particularly. Mine works fine occasionally, then suddenly it'll purge and smoke really badly. Then the next time its started it wont fire at all, on tuesday I lost my car in the smoke then its been ok until today when it started to do it again although not as bad. Tonight it wont fire up at all and yet its definately cold enough, but tomorrow it will probably work again..... Alex

I thought( i may be wrong) that if the heater got hot then the glo plug was working? My glo plug was replaced perhaps as much as 2 yrs ago I'm reluctant to put a plug in just to be then told the units beyond use...... Would anyone know a cheaper source of booster heater than going to ford? Ford want

I asked a couple of days ago what people thought could be wrong with my booster heater. Having scoured through here I've read something about the pumps making a noise when the engine is turned off. My car doesnt appear to make any noise at this point, could this be contributing to my heavy smoking problem?I'm thinking perhaps the pump is'nt circulating the coolant and because of this it overheats the booster heater causing it to cut out and flood with unburnt fuel when the heater does run? My heater doesnt seem to run on a temperature basis more when it can be bothered! Am I talking manure?

Thanks!

Can someone please tell me which fuse it is?

Can you tell me where the fuse is....just in case :-)

I agree however when I spoke to them today they said that I needed to take it to a garage and then get the garage to call them. I replied that I just wanted to make certain it was covered,to which I got the reply " Auxilary heaters are not covered". I asked how it was an auxilary heater as it was required for the engine heating and he just repeated what he'd already said. Does it sound fixable or will it need a new unit? If it requires a new unit how much am I likely to have to pay? Thanks again, Alex

I wonder if someone can help us... We have a 2002 (52) galaxy tdi Ghia and its smoking from the auxilary /booster heater. I changed the glow plug perhaps last year.... however this was just as a matter of course as my friend had just done his and as it was an easy job he suggested we do mine. My heater is now smoking to the degree the wife has refused to drive it,I pulled up in it earlier and honestly couldnt see out of the car.Our childminder came rushing out thinking my car was on fire I have a warranty on it with warranty direct but they dont think it will be covered (thieves :-( ! ) as its an auxilary item. Can anyone offer any advice as to what we can do,does it need a new heater or plugging in for a diagnosis? Thanks, Alex