Advice Please

The message from "Peter Day" contains these words:

It'll start not starting. You'll get trouble particularly on cold days and it'll shudder and snort and throw out smoke and run roughly for a few minutes if one's dead. If two are dead you'll be lucky to start it, and if more are dead it won't start at all.

Of course, these symptoms are sometimes due to other causes, but if you have reason to suspect that the heater plugs are dead you should check them with a multimeter. Dead plugs are open circuit, working ones are nearly short circuits....only a few ohms. It is possible for a dead plug to be short circuit, but rare...I've not met one.

So...if it ain't broke...don't fix it.

this engine(very noisy) also fit genuine peugeot ones(yes i know they cost more) but other types(halfords)have proved to be unreliable

Bosch worked for me. halfords didn't for very long at all.

cheers, clive

The Citroen community (same engine) seems to recommend Beru plugs. Personally I have Bosch in mine and they seem to work. Just make sure you get Turbo D plugs and not the normal D plugs otherwise they'll only last about a fortnight

-- James