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Flashing Glow Plug Light

Yox
Yox
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Hi Folks,

The car we ae talking about is a 2003 Mondeo Estate, Diesel, 2.0 TDCI Zetec. It's been around a bit and has 152,000 miles on the clock. I've owned it since 2012 an it has been faultless. We live in

Spain.

On the way to collect the kids from school this afternoon, I was driving through our town, and I suddenly either actually saw the glow plug light come on and start flashing, or I noticed that it was flashing. Either way, it had only been flashing for five minutes or so, tops.

As I was not driving fast – I was in a town – I continued to the school where I stopped and switched off. I had maybe 20 minutes to wait, so while I was waiting on two or three occasions I tried to re-create the problem.

Each time, I switched on the ignition, waited for the lights to go out and started the engine. Each
time it worked perfectly, and no flashing glow plug light.

I monitored the light all the way home … It stayed off.

Anyone got any ideas what that was all about? I've got a long trip tomorrow, and I would rather know if there was a disaster waiting to happen!!!

Yox...


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    Hi Dave. The flashing glow plug light could be 1 of many problems. I'm currently going through a glow plug light problem but mine is turbo related. Need a new turbo and actuator. But yours could be anything from a dirty sensor to knackered injectors. I would take it to a garage and get the codes read with a diagnostics kit before you embrace your long journey or if you feel comfortable enough doing the trip then are you covered with a recovery company ( AA, Green flag ) obviously Spanish equivalent. Lol. :-)

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