Glow Plug Roulette
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What fun.
Friends 15 year old Kia Ceed 1.6 diesel showing 95k on the mile dial.
Reluctant to cold start, dealer diagnosed duff glow plugs and quoted nearly £500 to stick a new set in.
I`ll do that I said, what could possibly go wrong? Piece of piss.
£40 for 4 new Bosch glowsticks and £4 for a 12mm deep socket and we`re off and running.....
Opens bonnet, where the f
k are they? buried under a turbo heatshield at the back of the engine under a load of wires and hoses. Great design Kia, FRO.
Heatshield bolts seized solid and rusty as.. blowtorch, an Irwin twistie and out they come, eventually. Off with all the rest of the paraphenalia and there they are....
Out with the deep 12mm socket on my smallest ratchet and a sparkly new can of Liquid Wrench.
At this point I`m deeply regretting getting involved.
Tentatively apply some pressure to first glow plug, it gives a quarter turn, hooray, and then sticks. s
t, do it back up.
Squirt of Liquid Wrench, try again, boom, half a turn and it sticks, retighten, rinse and repeat with the threads squawking on each new turn like an unhappy seagull. Finally the b
d thing is out and onto the next one.
Same thing all over again on all of em, but finally success, all out.
f
k that for a game of soldiers, never again.
Friends 15 year old Kia Ceed 1.6 diesel showing 95k on the mile dial.
Reluctant to cold start, dealer diagnosed duff glow plugs and quoted nearly £500 to stick a new set in.
I`ll do that I said, what could possibly go wrong? Piece of piss.
£40 for 4 new Bosch glowsticks and £4 for a 12mm deep socket and we`re off and running.....
Opens bonnet, where the f

Heatshield bolts seized solid and rusty as.. blowtorch, an Irwin twistie and out they come, eventually. Off with all the rest of the paraphenalia and there they are....
Out with the deep 12mm socket on my smallest ratchet and a sparkly new can of Liquid Wrench.
At this point I`m deeply regretting getting involved.
Tentatively apply some pressure to first glow plug, it gives a quarter turn, hooray, and then sticks. s

Squirt of Liquid Wrench, try again, boom, half a turn and it sticks, retighten, rinse and repeat with the threads squawking on each new turn like an unhappy seagull. Finally the b

Same thing all over again on all of em, but finally success, all out.
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