Vast Clouds Of Smoke From The Auxiliary Heater

[Taliska]

Flipping heck, nearly engulfed the whole village in clouds of smoke this morning...

 

Figured it had to be the Auxiliary Heater, so pulled the fuse and did another run around whilst the morning was cold, and no more smoke...

 

Any ideas as to which bits of the Auxiliary Heater to change?

 

Also, I don't recall hearing the jet engine noise at all.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Taliska

[sotal]

Run VCDS on it or get someone else to run it and check for fault codes.

 

My guess would be Glow Plug.

 

Just out of interest though what age is you car? If it's a Mk1 then you can't scan the aux heater for codes, so you'll just have to guess

[edatelder]

See thread no.1 in the FAQs list.

The glowplug, GH001, is currently

[Taliska]

Run VCDS on it or get someone else to run it and check for fault codes.

 

My guess would be Glow Plug.

 

Just out of interest though what age is you car? If it's a Mk1 then you can't scan the aux heater for codes, so you'll just have to guess

 

It's a MkII - 53 plate.

 

I've never quite got round to getting a VAG-COM unit...

 

 

See thread no.1 in the FAQs list.

The glowplug, GH001, is currently

[nicebutdim]

Sounds like the heater is working perfectly normal to me! :blink:

[gregers]

DONT TRUST A WORD FORD TELLS YOU,

ould well be the glow plug as all ready mentioned by others.fords no doubt will harge you a fortune for the new plug and then tell you that you need a new unit,

and will charge you a STUPID AMMOUNT for it.

[chrispb123456]

Flipping heck, nearly engulfed the whole village in clouds of smoke this morning...

 

Figured it had to be the Auxiliary Heater, so pulled the fuse and did another run around whilst the morning was cold, and no more smoke...

 

Any ideas as to which bits of the Auxiliary Heater to change?

 

Also, I don't recall hearing the jet engine noise at all.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Taliska

Hi Taliska

Go to the FAQ's in technical section click on number 1, then go straight to page 6 then scroll down to thread 81 onwards, there's good clear pictures and instructions from Ivor on removing heater unit to change glow plug.

[sotal]

Just be careful - those instructions show the glow plug being replaced with the old type glow plug, these are the cheap old glow plugs which are known for only lasting 12 months. You can get a new type glow plug from Ford or VW for around