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Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) Hi all, Just need some advice if possible please? While putting the swirl gasket on my EGR I caught the spanner on the Glow Plug Control Unit (a few sparks) and then nothing. Immediately, turned on the engine, initial start up check ok, then the dreaded 'Check Glow Plugs' message came up. Had a look at the Glow Plug fuse in the battery fuse box and it was blown...no surprise. Couple of questions: 1) I am right in my assumption (if it starts) that it's fine to drive as the GPs are only used at start up? 2) Is the Glow Plug fuse easy to fit and are they readily available from Fiat dealers? I may have shorted the controller and/or glow plugs but the fuse is the best place to start. Thanks for any advice.
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![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) Hi all, Just need some advice if possible please? While putting the swirl gasket on my EGR I caught the spanner on the Glow Plug Control Unit (a few sparks) and then nothing. Immediately, turned on the engine, initial start up check ok, then the dreaded 'Check Glow Plugs' message came up. Had a look at the Glow Plug fuse in the battery fuse box and it was blown...no surprise. Couple of questions: 1) I am right in my assumption (if it starts) that it's fine to drive as the GPs are only used at start up? 2) Is the Glow Plug fuse easy to fit and are they readily available from Fiat dealers? I may have shorted the controller and/or glow plugs but the fuse is the best place to start. Thanks for any advice. Edit - My bad it doesnt say that, but surely you'd do that just because you were disconnecting an electronic component.
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Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) I'd finished, put the batt back on, and noticed I'd left a spanner in there...took it out and spark. Unlucky? Clumsy? You decide.
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Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) To be fair... ...the mistake is made. Any help on my enquiry at all? ![]()
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Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) Hi guys, anyone help on these q's?? Couple of questions: 1) I am right in my assumption (if it starts) that it's fine to drive as the GPs are only used at start up? 2) Is the Glow Plug fuse easy to fit and are they readily available from Fiat dealers? I may have shorted the controller and/or glow plugs but the fuse is the best place to start. Thanks for any advice.
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Posts: 1,219 Thanks: 99 Trader Rating: 6 ![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) Hi guys, anyone help on these q's?? Couple of questions: 1) I am right in my assumption (if it starts) that it's fine to drive as the GPs are only used at start up? 2) Is the Glow Plug fuse easy to fit and are they readily available from Fiat dealers? I may have shorted the controller and/or glow plugs but the fuse is the best place to start. Thanks for any advice.
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![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) ![]() If you accidentaly forget to say what you did this is an option, but at worst the plugs are 20-25£ each. Is the fuse not just a normal mini blade one?
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Dub Dub Dub ![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) I've done the same thing as Monkeydt2003, but what I would like to know is which fuse is it? Don't say look in your manual because I have lost it... well no I haven't I have just miss placed it ![]() ![]()
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![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) well the e-learn manual now only appears to show the s2 fuse box (perhapse they had enough on the S1's letting water in and redesigned it ![]() you can get a dedicated Glowplug socket with an open side so you can thread the wire through the side... its simple to check a entire fuse box in a matter of minutes get one of these 12v testers cost about £3 then clip the croc clip to earth or the negative post of the battery you can use a multimeter but why over complicate something ![]() now with the screw driver end touch the probe to each side of the fuse if you look closely there is 2 cut outs on top of the fuse one on top of each "leg" to get a probe on do each side of the fuse your blown one will only light the screwdriver on one side (its far faster than looking through the manual ![]()
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Dub Dub Dub ![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) I actually took all the blade fuses out and checked them all, all were ok, the big 40 amp buggers I never checked... its either one of these or the square look thingy's or are they totally different things all together?
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![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) with my method no need to take fuses out ![]() the square things are relays ![]() it probably is the big 40amp jobbies or the large flat ones on top of the battery post under the little cap will dig my handbook out later if i get chance added a warning to the top of your guide Aircooledbug ![]() |
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Dub Dub Dub ![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) with my method no need to take fuses out ![]() the square things are relays ![]() it probably is the big 40amp jobbies or the large flat ones on top of the battery post under the little cap will dig my handbook out later if i get chance added a warning to the top of your guide Aircooledbug ![]() Huh? ![]()
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![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) Don't tell me you forgot you wrote it ![]() https://www.fiatforum.com/grande-pun...egr-valve.html Should see Alex365 at FF meets he must make a killing doing EGR services in pub car parks with his fetching latex gloves ![]() |
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Dub Dub Dub ![]() | Re: Blown Glow Plug Fuse (Check Glow Plugs Msg) Awesome touch Andy, yeah, I think I have become a bit of a pro at the old EGR valve removal. Changed mine in 30 minutes... glad to have my car back with its 130 supposed horse power, felt like only 60 before the renewed valve...
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