I'm experiencing another intermittent electrical condition (these gremlins seem to follow me, but that's off-topic here): maybe one time out of three or four, when I turn my key to position two, my glow light won't light up at all. Other times it lights up fine, the car glows, and starts fine. The last time I had no light in position 2, I cranked until the car fired. Instead of a fraction of a second, it took three or four seconds of cranking, and there was lots of bluish-white smoke when it finally did kick over. I guess that just shows that the glowplugs really weren't doing anything.

Am I looking at glowplugs also? I want to get this fixed before PA winters strand me on a cold day. I always thought the glow relay signalled failure by flashing the glow light intermittently.

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Bob Roe
Lehigh Valley PA USA
1973 Olds 88, 1972 MB 280SE, 1978 Datsun 280Z, 1971 Ford T-Bird, 1972 Olds 88, 1983 Nissan Sentra, 1985 Sentra, 1973 230.6, 1990 Acura Integra, 1991 Volvo 940GLE wagon, 1983 300SD, 1984 300SD, 1995 Subaru Legacy L wagon, 2002 Mountaineer, 1991 300TE wagon, 2008 Murano, 2007 R320CDI 4Matic 52K, some Hyundai, 2008 BMW 535xi wagon, all gone... currently
2007 Honda Odyssey Touring, 2014 E350 4matic