metaljim

Hi Seatkid, the glow plug light does stay on for more than a few seconds and have already fitted a new temperature sensor,that was one of the things i changed not long ago because i was having trouble with limp mode,also changed another sensor and changed most of the vacuum pipes,nearly gave up on that,but it turned out to be the vacuum pipe coming up from the back of the engine...

Hi, just to say i changed the glow plugs begining of winter,and its a ( mk1 1999 ) will have ago at what you say,....thanks.

Hi thanks for getting back, its an ongoing thing since the begining of winter,up until then it started on the flip of the key and was perfect,through the winter up until now it did seem to take longer everytime to get started close to getting a flat battery,and when it did start how embarassing it was,could not see the galaxy for white smoke lol,i did find back in the winter that i had no power getting to the glow plugs,and left that as because of the weather and a mechanic told me it would start without them as at the time he could not find out what was wrong with it when he had a quick look for us,at that time when started it would run perfect all day,could turn of engine for three or four hours and still started fine,to get it to start in the morning was a different story,been of the road a couple of weeks now as it would not start at all,with just the odd time it tried to fire up, i have since checked the timing,and before i put it all back together,the engine mounts, pipes and the other bits and pieces,i thought i would try and start it, wher upon it started a couple of times with no trouble,put it all back together and would not start again,untill a friend came and said to try easystart where a quick burst of it and it started strait away,went for a run and drove fine for a good thirty miles,but did notice the longer you left the engine turned of the harder it would take to start,give it an hour standing and it would not start,!!will take your advise and will not use that easystart again!! did only use it twice...have seen large bubbles in the clear pipe, so i got gallon can of diesel and a hand pump and connected pipe to the clear pipe to by past the fillter and pipe and things but still no joy,had all the relays out and changed a couple of them,the ones that most people go on about ie 109 and 103 did not change them with new ones,had the tops of most of them as well and all looked fine,all fuses seem ok,have read somewhere about brake lights causing trouble,starting,my high vision light is not working,and when i had a quick look at the wireing which goes to the light it has been bodged up before and i did not botherd with it at the time as it looked a pig to get at.....seviced the car this time last year....hope you can under stand all this thanks John.

Anyone got any idea why my tdi will only start with easystart !!!