our Company at the moment runs 3 Caddy's,  1x '63, 1x '15 and a '65, all same engine (AFAIK?) and all had the Fuel updates done.

the 2 newer vans have both suffered EML issues with Glow Plug circuits being the cause.

the '15 plate one was all 4 i think along with some other bits @ circa £1500, my '65 reads as circuit no 2 faulty and the '63 plate hasn't suffered.

 

is this just unlucky or do the later ones have 'cheaper' components? and is this now another 'fault' with these engines or something more 'Tin Foil Hat' theory as regards the timings which were of a similar mileage and age?

 

possibly leaving the Oil filler cap off for 2 days and drowning the rocker cover may not have helped!! 

You need to check if 'all that could have had the fix did get the fix'.   

 ?

Did the repairs get done free under the Trust Building Guarantee'?

 

Not all that did get the New Engine Management and the flow device fitted have had issues since.

 

Always luck of the Draw with the VW group and then the Defeat Device carry on and the fix adds additional risks. 

The Trust Building Measure does not cover glow plugs.

 

If you have a good service history on them with VW, I'd push for VW to at least cover part of the repair cost. It's unlikely that the NOx update will have had any impact on the glow plugs since these are only needed to get the combustion chamber up to temperature during startup. It's certainly possible there was a bad batch of parts that would have caused issues on the two 2015 vans: do you know how close they were to each other on the production run?

not too sure about the Trust Building stuff, for some bizarre reason i've had all 3 vans at some point, bizarre as in the office is in Maidstone and i live South Staffs!!

 

i've had all 3 serviced at some time and all had the 'Fuel issue' done, not too sure what it entailed and TBH i don't care, well apart from when they asked 'do you want the 68 limit back on' , i just take them to main dealer and pay with the Co CC.

never had any major problems mechanically as part of the 'cheat', i was just musing over the coincidence and whether the Glow plugs were part of a wider issue?

i thought most CR diesels didn't use the Plugs in quite the same way as older engines as in having to wait for the light to go out and pray, hence the surprise at the fault either mechanical or electrical - most likely?

 

the later vans were reg'd  Jul and Sept 15 so probably not that close.

 

mines going into an independent ( Mids VW) on wednesday, i doubt any of the VW centres would even book it in that early and it's off lease end of august

13 minutes ago, olduns said:

CR diesels didn't use the Plugs in quite the same way as older engines as in having to wait for the light to go out

That's true of non-CR 1.9TDi too, because they don't have a pre-injection chamber in the head.

quick update on this....had all 4 plugs changed in the end, £115+ fitted at Mids VW along with service, way quicker than the usual 'leave it all day' VW van centre, done in under 3 hrs.

it was mentioned in the service report of an 'oil leak' somewhere 

Edited 27 January, 20197 yr by olduns