Good news today with the arrival of the Bosch diagnostic tester


Moderators: RichardW, myglaren
The 2.1TD suffers in exactly the same wayDickieG wrote:Its about time I updated things here, well with the cold weather the thermal efficiency of the HDi engine has become a real pain as it takes about 5 miles for the heater to warm up enough to clear frost from the windscreen.
It might be because it has the other type of warm up device which consists of four glowplugs located within a housing attached to a heater hose.myglaren wrote:I can't see how mine would be any different and I find that it warms up very quickly, at least as fast as the Xantia (1.9TD) and the Accord (2.0iLS).
Yesterday it was quite noticeably warm after a mile, although I did allow it to warm a bit while I chucked warm water over the screen to remove the ice and frozen snow (-6C) but not too long as I was late for work, having done the daughter's 106 before I did mine).
Most mornings it is already warmed up for me as my son takes my car to work and comes home at 07:20, just in time for me to leave
You mean the engine?DickieG wrote:It might be because it has the other type of warm up device which consists of four glowplugs located within a housing attached to a heater hose.myglaren wrote:I can't see how mine would be any different and I find that it warms up very quickly, at least as fast as the Xantia (1.9TD) and the Accord (2.0iLS).
Yesterday it was quite noticeably warm after a mile, although I did allow it to warm a bit while I chucked warm water over the screen to remove the ice and frozen snow (-6C) but not too long as I was late for work, having done the daughter's 106 before I did mine).
Most mornings it is already warmed up for me as my son takes my car to work and comes home at 07:20, just in time for me to leave