willw

I have the 10 and 12mm long glow plug sockets. Bought them for this job. No issues removing the actual plugs, warm engine and WD40. Surprising amount of rust on the threads. Ceramic grease went on the new ones. Been working on my own cars for 30 years. Only light stuff now due to old age pains 🤪 Hopefully other members will find this info useful and your link for the removal tool which is a 10mm. Remember the sensor plug is a 12mm.

Yes I had no.4 open circuit but as you said I replaced them all at 136000. Just so annoyed the no.3 connection broke. As I said in my post I glued it together and it seems to click on and hold ok but when driving today after clearing all the stored codes I got open circuit cylinder 3 (the sensor circuit). Gonna wait to see if it's a glitch before taking a hammer to my scotom.

Unfortunately there is a clip on the sensor plug lead which is impossible to see. The clip would be at the end of the lead and almost impossible to get at to squeeze the tabs when the plug is in situ. When I pulled the lead off as gently as I could the contact on the lead snapped off leaving the rest of the contact still on the plug ! I was able to remove the rest of the contact with long nose pliers from the plug. Luckily some strong glue and insulation tape repaired the contact lead. So beware the sensor plug lead has a push on clip and cannot simply be pulled to remove.

Thanks for the help. 😃

Are you sure, this is the pressure sensor plug I'm referring to in cylinder 3. It's a superb V3 1.6tdi CR.

Hi all. Does the no 3 plug lead remove like the rest, IE just pulling. I've read there is tabs to squeeze ? I've been putting this off until I know exactly how no 3 comes out. Heard horror stories of plugs breaking in the head

Thanks for the reply guys. I do service my own cars as MarkyG82 mentioned. It's good to know you can reset using diagnostics. Have anyone heard of this button failing before, or ever been replaced on the 3V.

The trip test button has stopped working. It wouldn't annoy me only for the fact you need it to reset service light. Is there another way to reset this without using the ignition and trip button ? Thanks in advance..