Hi To All, And In Need Of Help

[phill_long]

Firstly hi to all. have just recently purchased an 03 1.9 TDI Ghia (11 days) and everything seemed fine untill yesterday when on returning home from an hour journey and parking up, we where surounded by thick parafin smelling smoke. looked under and this was coming out of a very small moped sized pipe. also drips of oil from all over pipes and boxes before pipe, which did not smell of diesel although still under warranty have been told that a glow plug will sort this out.....? now i'm no mechanic, but surely this will not stop the leak. Am pushing for new unit to be fitted. any advice very welcome, thanks phill.

[stevie m]

Firstly hi to all. have just recently purchased an 03 1.9 TDI Ghia (11 days) and everything seemed fine untill yesterday when on returning home from an hour journey and parking up, we where surounded by thick parafin smelling smoke. looked under and this was coming out of a very small moped sized pipe. also drips of oil from all over pipes and boxes before pipe, which did not smell of diesel although still under warranty have been told that a glow plug will sort this out.....? now i'm no mechanic, but surely this will not stop the leak. Am pushing for new unit to be fitted. any advice very welcome, thanks phill.

 

The smoke will be caused by the glowplug. It has been covered many times here. Oil ? i don't understand tho. I hope you get a new one mate but my thought is that your plug will be replaced instead. The cost of replacement is

Edited January 14, 2008 by stevie m

[stevie m]

Again i forgot to say hello !!!!!

[phill_long]

thanks stevie M, i did read up on the aux heater prob's but found nothing about the oil leak from the unit. all i can assume is that as this runs on the fuel from the car it has started to leak from a joint somewhere there. will see what happens eh. Regards phill.

[stevie m]

thanks stevie M, i did read up on the aux heater prob's but found nothing about the oil leak from the unit. all i can assume is that as this runs on the fuel from the car it has started to leak from a joint somewhere there. will see what happens eh. Regards phill.

 

Yes this runs on fuel. This runs in from a small pipe IIRC.

[gregers]

hi and welcome phil,me thinks i know where you bought your car from :rolleyes: TAKE IT BACK and tell them to sort it out,they are all to well aware of what happens with these units.