Glow Plug Roulette

[Hammer67]

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 fk 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. st, 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 bd thing is out and onto the next one.
Same thing all over again on all of em, but finally success, all out.

fk that for a game of soldiers, never again.

[Ritchie335is]

If you take a piece of wire from the Positive on the battery and touch the tops of the plugs, you can see which one is duff.
The good ones will spark.

[GreenV8S]

Ritchie335is said:

If you take a piece of wire from the Positive on the battery and touch the tops of the plugs, you can see which one is duff.
The good ones will spark.

Or, you know, just measure its resistance like everyone else.

[Ritchie335is]

GreenV8S said:

Ritchie335is said:

If you take a piece of wire from the Positive on the battery and touch the tops of the plugs, you can see which one is duff.
The good ones will spark.

Or, you know, just measure its resistance like everyone else.