Not an audi... TDCi mondeo

[QuattroFever]

Anyone a dab hand with diesels?

Not an audi tdi but I have a friend who is really struggling with a mondeo TDCi 2002.

he is getting plumes of smoke at 1500-2000 rpm and a hesitation. Once past that it seems fine and revs clean and good.

glow coils light is steady flashing.

all of a sudden started doing this one morning.

I thought maybe glow plugs but still continues once warm and starts from cold ok. Injectors can fail on these regularly apparentley, but so suddenly with no warning?

all glow plugs read open circuit as well. These def. are shot but don't think these are symptoms of bad glow plugs.

fault codes:
cylinder *2 above knock threshhold. p2337
Injector pump module communication. p1665
Injector pump control module malfunction. p1664

Any help appreciated.

[AndyP]

I'd go with a duff injector. A bloke at work had the same problem and I did some research on the net for him, it seems injectors are a really common failing on these. They're not cheap either, and they have to be coded to the car

[QuattroFever]

kind of confirms the horrors.

I wish I could tell him it's not that bad but at 100 odd quid for a reconned inj. and then the re-coding charge its not going to be good news. Just hope it solves the problem.

He's just shelled out for a new starter motor, clutch and dual mass flywheel (The flywheel was breaking down and the metal from it collected in the bottom of the bellhousing and took the starter motor out with it too...) he's not a happy.

Only 125,000 as well. Not astronomical mileage for a diesel.

The work transit connect van is still going strong at 120,000 only had a camshaft sensor in 6years from new.

[s2driveruk]

ap diesels in Englefield can test them for about £40 per injector...just used them for my pump dusse 1.9tdi a6. All four of mine were well outside of tollerance on the flows and they have a proper test rig to check unit and common rail diesel injectors...£720 bill....gulp

[s2driveruk]

http://www.apdiesels.com/

[QuattroFever]

will look into them, They look quite good judging from their website and also deal with delphi

thanks