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Update after glow plugs control box change

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Update after glow plugs control box change

Post by pvr » Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:07 pm

As I posted a while back in February after we took the X5 to France for skiing, I had difficulty starting the X5 and smoked the garage out over there.

When I got back, I had the dealer check it out and it was a faulty glow plug control box. This was fixed (partially paid by Warranty Direct - but that is another story ...) and I am happy to report that the car has been excellent since then.

No more smoking under hard acceleration. I have not been able to verify the starting as it was only a problem when it was really, really cold.

All in all - everything is fine now :)

As I have bought another runabout car, the X5 is now semi - retired and we only use it for family trips and long distance driving. At least it reduces the mileage increase on the car as well as I think it is a lot better for the car to only start - drive for hours, and then stop rather then local town driving.
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Re: Update after glow plugs control box change

Post by Chompers » Mon Aug 02, 2010 2:18 pm

Glad all is sorted with this now PVR 8-)
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