The negative side of paying to get it scanned is that you might have an unimportant fault that is going to annoy you by putting in an appearance every few days or weeks or months - if you need to pay to get it scanned each time it becomes a bit expensive, if you ignore it it might just be the time that it is telling the truth and is an important new failure. Maybe you should consider buying a self contained scanner from ebay etc or a more reputable source like www.gendan.co.uk - they sell a handheld fault reader for £39.95 (they advertise in VW Driver magazine) this tool is reasonably cheap and easy to use, while not giving all the features of VAG-COM, it certainly looks like a compact basic reader and clearer of fault codes if you are not too interested in getting deeply involved in recoding etc.
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Warning / Enginemangement Light come on
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The negative side of paying to get it scanned is that you might have an unimportant fault that is going to annoy you by putting in an appearance every few days or weeks or months - if you need to pay to get it scanned each time it becomes a bit expensive, if you ignore it it might just be the time that it is telling the truth and is an important new failure. Maybe you should consider buying a self contained scanner from ebay etc or a more reputable source like www.gendan.co.uk - they sell a handheld fault reader for £39.95 (they advertise in VW Driver magazine) this tool is reasonably cheap and easy to use, while not giving all the features of VAG-COM, it certainly looks like a compact basic reader and clearer of fault codes if you are not too interested in getting deeply involved in recoding etc.
that seems like a handy little tool to have and for £40 cant go wrong, Ric is hopefully coming to give me a hand on saturday at my work place which i appreciate but i may well now buy this little reader when i get some spare cash could save alot of problems and money in the long run.
Ric came to my work on saturday and hooked up vag com, found two faults, he will have details on them but one was passenger door :s didnt know you could find faults like that and the main one was speed sensor? he cleared them both for me and didnt want no pennies off me, what a nice chap.
Thanks again ric for taking the time out to give me a hand.
Thanks again ric for taking the time out to give me a hand.
Right, finally iv found this thread!! My glowplug light/engine light is constantly on. I can clear the fault, and it may/may not return on the next startup, but will return the next day.
The fault is 17057 - glowplug cylinder 3 circuit error or similar.
Diagnosis wise, im guessing this is a multimeter job checking for abnormal ohm resistance across a plug. Or just buy a set!!
I've removed the harness, and refitted but it does return, thank god for scanguage!
This car was apparently serviced about.....2 months ago. I have no limp mode or adverse effects to identify the above, only a light!
Thanks!!
Jimski
The fault is 17057 - glowplug cylinder 3 circuit error or similar.
Diagnosis wise, im guessing this is a multimeter job checking for abnormal ohm resistance across a plug. Or just buy a set!!
I've removed the harness, and refitted but it does return, thank god for scanguage!
This car was apparently serviced about.....2 months ago. I have no limp mode or adverse effects to identify the above, only a light!
Thanks!!
Jimski
Buy a £10 ebay cable like me, the full version is widely available
Sort of fair comment, but I've never heard the story about VAG-COM actually fixing problems! This poster has found out what the problem is - so I'd reckon that he now needs to buy a new glow plug and replace cylinder 3 glow plug. If that poster is only really interested in engine problem fixing, then maybe the Gendan VAG scan tool for £40 is all he needs. The full version of VCDS still costs a bit of cash, so I guess that you are referring to the light weight obsolete versions that use dumb dongles - but don't have full application.
As above! I have identified 'the fault'; however a TDI Forum topic suggested other possible issues.
I was merely asking for advice, or anyone with a similar issue and their rectification of it.
I could buy the glowplugs and still have the issue, and ideally id like to sort it in one hit....
Jimski
I was merely asking for advice, or anyone with a similar issue and their rectification of it.
I could buy the glowplugs and still have the issue, and ideally id like to sort it in one hit....
Jimski
Ah, okay then - but that does sound like a plausible fault being reported - what else are the TDI Forum folk suggesting could cause a reported "cylinder 3 glowplug" fault?
Mate, not being funny, but your tone is less than helpful!
This fault is still occurring with no problems starting, SEAT have informed me that glowplugs need not be changed, as they are not a service item. I left thinking that i wouldnt buy them from my dealer now anyway!
It could be a harness fault, or a skittery Ohm reading across the plug/s. Guessing nobody had similar?
Jimski
This fault is still occurring with no problems starting, SEAT have informed me that glowplugs need not be changed, as they are not a service item. I left thinking that i wouldnt buy them from my dealer now anyway!
It could be a harness fault, or a skittery Ohm reading across the plug/s. Guessing nobody had similar?
Jimski
I was not trying to get smart, merely following on from what you said that you had found and then you asked for more help - but left out the fact that you had read that it could be a harness problem! As said above, these glowplugs do eventually fail so saying that they don't need changing is not correct. If I were you, I'd take the above advice and swop two glow plugs over and while you are in there check over the condition of the harness. If the engine has no problem starting in winter then it does sound like a plug has not failed completely - but in the first place do as suggested and swop two plugs over and see what the next fault code is. These plugs are just heater coils that can handle high temperature and pressure.
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