Drove my first decent journey in Cupra TDI this weekend - Plymouth to London. All went well & parked up in hotel near Heathrow. That evening, went out to get some grub, only to find Engine Management light came and stayed on ......... oh great !!!
Car still drove ok, so did a quick few miles and back to hotel. Was still the same in the morning, but drove 10 miles to Legoland as didnt want to let little guy down if the fault was bad and we were getting towed home !
Rang Seat assistance @ 15:40 and 1stly she couldnt find my Leon registered on the database. I explained I didnt care as its a UK car and has 5 years of their cover !!! She said she'd get someone there by 16:20. Well, the AA man beat me to my car, I was still in Legoland when he rang and said he'd found my car in car park and was waiting for me....oops !!
Plugged in his Vagcom and it showed 'Glow Plug Circuit 1 error'. So we knew it wasnt going to affect car's driving once it started (and it had no problem doing that). But before he left he checked the glow plug leads and found cyl 1 lead slightly loose. We retried and error had cleared itself..........woohoo. AA man stated he'd never seen that before on a diesel !! As I'm only at 19K miles, its likely lead wasnt correctly put on from build !
So all's well that ends well. Phew glad about that and glad I'm back home.
Oh and if you ever fancy a really good fun park for your younger kids (say 4 to 14) -- then Legoland was ace.
MARK.
Car still drove ok, so did a quick few miles and back to hotel. Was still the same in the morning, but drove 10 miles to Legoland as didnt want to let little guy down if the fault was bad and we were getting towed home !
Rang Seat assistance @ 15:40 and 1stly she couldnt find my Leon registered on the database. I explained I didnt care as its a UK car and has 5 years of their cover !!! She said she'd get someone there by 16:20. Well, the AA man beat me to my car, I was still in Legoland when he rang and said he'd found my car in car park and was waiting for me....oops !!
Plugged in his Vagcom and it showed 'Glow Plug Circuit 1 error'. So we knew it wasnt going to affect car's driving once it started (and it had no problem doing that). But before he left he checked the glow plug leads and found cyl 1 lead slightly loose. We retried and error had cleared itself..........woohoo. AA man stated he'd never seen that before on a diesel !! As I'm only at 19K miles, its likely lead wasnt correctly put on from build !
So all's well that ends well. Phew glad about that and glad I'm back home.
Oh and if you ever fancy a really good fun park for your younger kids (say 4 to 14) -- then Legoland was ace.
MARK.
Took us 90 mins to get to Legoland. Hotel was only 11 miles away from it. 
