One for BB perhaps. Master van according to the fault code reader had all 4 glowplugs u/s, but starting wasn’t really too much of a problem, although I fancied that come Winter it may be a different story. My Mechanic attempted to replace them but all bar one was seized in the head. A bit of research indicated that this problem was not uncommon. Continued to use the van with starting situation unchanged. However last week about a week after the work it almost refused to start. It had been run in the morning and left at work in I have to say warm and bright sunshine. When returning some 4 hours later it took forever to start and has been the same since then. A right PITA. In addition I ran it up stationary yesterday and let it warm up for 20 minutes or so and then switched off. Upon trying to re-start half an hour later it didn’t want to know at the first attempt. Could this be something other than glowplugs? 3 separate technicians including my guy have intimated that the works could easily come to £1000.00 with having to have the head off etc. and 1 chap at a main agent who are big Renault van people have said that sometimes they just won’t come out and a new head is required circa 2k from Renault and this is JUST the head! A few other items need doing as well now so am I looking at scrap? Mileage 104k.
Professional thoughts please.
Regards….Martin.
Last edited by: VxFan on Sun 26 Sep 10 at 20:37
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