dan_campbell
19-11-2005, 11:30 PM
Hi,
My 1996 tdi Golf developed a problem yesterday. When starting the car the throttle blipped and revved the engine. Thinking nothing of it I continued on and after about a minute the glow plug warning light started flashing. I also noticed that there is a drastic loss in power (30-50 in 3rd takes almost twice as long).
I took the glow plugs out earlier today to have a look for damage and found they each had a black powdery deposit on them (is this normal?). I assume is carbon. Other than this they seem fine and were replaced about 1.5 years ago anyway.
More confusing is it's an intermittent problem, this morning taking my girlfriend home the car was fine. After stopping and turing the engine off. I started up and the problem was back, complete with blip.
Could this be something to do with the MAS?
Any ideas from you guys would be great.
Thanks
Dan
My 1996 tdi Golf developed a problem yesterday. When starting the car the throttle blipped and revved the engine. Thinking nothing of it I continued on and after about a minute the glow plug warning light started flashing. I also noticed that there is a drastic loss in power (30-50 in 3rd takes almost twice as long).
I took the glow plugs out earlier today to have a look for damage and found they each had a black powdery deposit on them (is this normal?). I assume is carbon. Other than this they seem fine and were replaced about 1.5 years ago anyway.
More confusing is it's an intermittent problem, this morning taking my girlfriend home the car was fine. After stopping and turing the engine off. I started up and the problem was back, complete with blip.
Could this be something to do with the MAS?
Any ideas from you guys would be great.
Thanks
Dan