Phil her up

Ok, I will take a look when the weather dries up a bit lol. Thanks to all for replies on this one. What is vagcom btw? I have seen it mentioned so many times but don't really know what it is!

I did wonder about this but it does sound like it's the top (from inside the car) - I will investigate a bit more, Cheers PS its defo not a drive belt noise - its from the steering itself

I have a 2002 Seat Alhambra 1.9 TD PD 115bhp and replaced the glow plug in the aux heater soon after buying the car around 2 years ago as the aux heater was not working at all. It was a horrile job - I ended up completely removing the aux heater and temporarily joining the coolant pipes to keep the car on the road. The biggest issue was removing the seized bolts/screws fromthe aluminium casing to get it apart. Anyway, it started working straight away after refitting so I was pleased with myself. However, I do not think it has helped warm the car up any quicker. Although the heater fires up when it should and both pipes that run to/from front of car get really hot it still takes an age for the car to warm up. On a 15 mile journey you just start feeling a little warmth after the 15 miles (typical outside temp 0 - 8 degrees C). I chnaged the thermostat which made no difference and also had the front end of the car well elevated for a couple of hours with engine at working temp to eliminate any air locks. Something I have noticed is that when the aux heater initially fires up there is a ticking/tapping noise that I have never been able to pinpoint. I know there is an electric water pump on the n/s of the engine bulkhead and wonder if there is a way to test this? Any comments on this would be very welcome - its disappointing that I put the effort into getting the glow plug changed but it didn't help stop me shivering lol. Cheers Phil

Hi All Apologies if this has been covered before but I can't find what I am looking for on a search... I have a 2002 Seat Alhambra 1.9TD PD 115bhp. The top mounts of the front suspension squeak and groan like anything (when steering) but only after it has rained. I replaced the top mounts and bearings (using pattern parts) about 18 months ago. The old bearings were shot at the time but it did not get rid of this noise. I think it must be the rubber mounts making the noise - has anyone else encountered this please? It is really annoying and quite embarassing as it is quite loud lol. Cheers Phil

Firstly, many thanks to this forum and those who take the time to post on it. I wanted to share my recent experience with others so here goes... I drive a Seat Alhambra 2002 1.9 TD PD 115bhp. I love the car but have had to carry out many maintenance tasks in the last few years - its now done about 125000 miles. For a number of months I had been occasionally experiencing a very slight hesitation on light throttle only - at high or low speeds. I decided to let it develop and develop it did! It became far more frequent - maybe three or four times on a 10 mile journey and I noticed that idling was getting lumpy. At this point I spent a lot of time searching and reading posts on here. It seemed I should be either checking the egr valve or the injector wiring. I decided to look at the egr valve first because I personally think it is fairly common for diesels to clog their egr valves after around 100000 miles. Ok, it is quite an awkward job to remove the egr valve and much has been written on here about it but being fore warned was half the battle. The valve was indeed fairly clogged with crud and now it has been cleaned the problems have gone away. I may consider taking the egr off again and removing the inlet manifold to decoke that as well as I could see it is well clogged. Any advice on getting it off and how to effectively clean it would be much appreciated ;) I did remove the heat shield at on the bulkhead to check for vacuum pipes behind the shield whilst I had the valve off as leaking vacuum pipes could have been the problem and I didn't know until I put the egr back if it would cure the faults or not. The heat shield is certainly easier to get at with the egr out of the way. I hope this post will help others in the future. I am now going to repost with some questions about other stuff that I can't find on searching :) Cheers Phil