Quick Question

[SPIKEYJIMBO]

Eve all,

 

Its been a while since I was last on here so my apolagies. Its that time of year again when the aux heater questions appear, mine has never worked but after some advice from here traced it to being blocked off at the plug, scanned with vag com cleared the codes 01414 combustion blower problem, however this kept returning so lost heart in it and froze every day last winter.

 

Took the vag com out to the car yesterday cleared the 01414 codes and hit the heater unit with a rubber mallet, re scanned today and now im getting the flame out code so im guessing the heater will need to be dropped and the plug changed ( I have the plug)

 

 

When the car is started it starts with the whooshing and then some sort of tapping, the exhaust blows air out of the end for a min or so and there is no smoke. does this mean its working? When i shut the car down you can still hear it working before i guess shutting down

 

Does it sound like im getting some where with this or just getting my hopes up

 

Many thanks

 

James

[gregers]

well it could be,as you have the new plug it wont hurt you fitting it anyway.while its apart do your best to give it a good clean out,i litraly took mine to bits,PREYED, put it back,had the codes read/and canncelled by chrispy,bloody nice chap.:lol:and everything worked.

[chrispb123456]

Eve all,

 

Its been a while since I was last on here so my apolagies. Its that time of year again when the aux heater questions appear, mine has never worked but after some advice from here traced it to being blocked off at the plug, scanned with vag com cleared the codes 01414 combustion blower problem, however this kept returning so lost heart in it and froze every day last winter.

 

Took the vag com out to the car yesterday cleared the 01414 codes and hit the heater unit with a rubber mallet, re scanned today and now im getting the flame out code so im guessing the heater will need to be dropped and the plug changed ( I have the plug)

 

 

When the car is started it starts with the whooshing and then some sort of tapping, the exhaust blows air out of the end for a min or so and there is no smoke. does this mean its working? When i shut the car down you can still hear it working before i guess shutting down

 

Does it sound like im getting some where with this or just getting my hopes up

 

Many thanks

 

James

Hi Jimbo

The combustion fan can get stuck or jammed by simply non use, hitting it could have freed the fan, the initial whooshing noise is the fan spinning up then the tapping is the dosing pump, no smoke means no flame or heat from glow plug.

So as Greg said fit the new plug and try it, dont forget give them small screws a good soaking with penetrating oil.

 

Good luck

[SPIKEYJIMBO]

Cheers guys,

 

 

No good at the mechanics part so will have to wait for a dry day and hope my brother in law will take a look for me, I really do hope that the new plug fixes it so I can be warm on the way to work and the kids wont need a blanket in the back,

 

Will keep you posted

Thanks

[Bigjeeze]

Cheers guys,

 

 

No good at the mechanics part so will have to wait for a dry day and hope my brother in law will take a look for me, I really do hope that the new plug fixes it so I can be warm on the way to work and the kids wont need a blanket in the back,

 

Will keep you posted

Thanks

 

 

 

You say that you get the sound of the fan and the tapping ( metering pump) so it could be that it is working. Does the temp gauge go up to the 90 degree mark? Before taking it out and stripping - take it out for a half hour run and see if a) the temp comes up and :) if the interior gets warm. If its working then ;leave the strip down until the weather moderates.

[gregers]

is the run on pump working?

[SPIKEYJIMBO]

Blimey how hard was it to get back on here.

Bigjeeze yes the temp guage gets up to mid point but takes ages and as soon as the heater blower is turned on it slowly drops down again

Greggers the run on pump is brand new only about 2k miles of use and still hums away

I changed the plug over wasn't very hard re fitted unit and cleared the codes I'm now getting 01409 flame out and 01414 again.

I can clear the codes and the little exhaust blows air buy gives up and logs codes again

Any ideas