T4 TDI Woes

[Seano]

Things get better but not totally fixed as yet...

The glow plugs have arrived and should by now be in the engine.

An added wrinkle is that on the second teardown (this one to get the old glowplugs out - the first was to do the belt change) the tech noticed that the idler belt was impacting on the plastic belt cover and chopping it up a bit. Closer inspection found the idler pully bearing had way too much play in it so a new one was ordered along with a new belt. However, VW sent the wrong pulley and that didn't turn up till yesterday. So today it 'should' go back together.

The only question now is...does that fix it? We wait and see...

[Seano]

It is back in my hands. It seems to work. It does make the odd noise. But it cost me nothing further...

[POSTSCRIPT] Booted first go this morning despite the -1 degree air temp and ran sweetly. So I think they've sorted it. New plugs, new ider pulley and new belt. And I'm guessing by the fact they didn't charge me for these things despite my agreement that I would pay for parts...that the mechanic found the actual problem that caused the crook start.

Regardless...it's fixed and the VW dealer treated me very well so no harm done.

[jets]

Pleased to hear it's finally sorted & that the dealer treated you well. Where you live you will need to use them again in the future.