Further to Ian at the top, I've got the car booked in for a Masterfit service and MOT - £160 here in Rochdale. I told them about the light - "that'll be £60 sir to hook it up to the diagnostics". £60 !!! Seeing as they are servicing it anyway, i thought that they'd just plug it in. Cheeky swines.
I will try my luck at changing the glow plugs myself and see if that cures it.
If it is glow plug related, providing the thing starts and runs smoothly, I can live with the light.
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Krebb, Have a read of this one which is very similar to yours.
tinyurl.co.uk/jbqj
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Thanks a lot - sounds like the same thing. I've not had the air mass meter problem, but the had a V reg vectra DI that supped oil (the dodgy bores) and also the famous "injector seals" air ingress with both the P reg Vectra DI and this Astra DTI (under warranty mind) so I think I've had all the main probs with this engine at one stage or another.
i'll nip to the library, get the Haynes manual and change the glow plugs before next thursday (service and MOT day). As I said, I don't seem to be having any problems - just the light - so I can live with it.
Mind you, winter is coming and I'm a train driver who starts and finishes work at very odd times of the night. It's very cold sometimes when I need to rely on the car..........
Still smarting - £60 for the diagnostic test
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What you can do is to disconnect the glow plugs electrical caps, and measure the resistance between the end connection and a good earth point (engine block/battery negative). Carry out the resistance check using a good ohmmeter, if you have a duff glowplug it may show up as a different resistance to the other three. The difference may not be great, i.e. 0.5 ohms for the good glowplugs, and, say 1.0 ohm for the bad one.
May save you changing all 4, but if one is duff the others are probably worth changing as well...
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I know the feeling, get off my train at 1.00 am sometimes in the winter and pray the car will start and get me home.
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Well, it has passed the smoke bit of the MOT, but they reckon a rear spring has gone and will need to be fixed before it passes. The price for the pair ? £304..........
No bangs, bumps, noises, or any symptoms at all of a problem
Argh !!
As it still starts fine, I will postpone any non urgent work until the finance have recovered.
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I know it's been awhile but my Vectra DTI also does this did you ever find out what caused it??
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My 98 Vectra DTI does the same thing. Management light comes on at the first start up in the morning and goes out by the end of the road. If it stands all day it will do the same thing. Had my local garage check it out and his reader gave the fault as "glow device general error". He thought it was perhaps the glow plugs controller which was faulty. However decided to leave it until the winter and see if it has any problems starting when its cold.
With regards to this......
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