Year 2 Day 37: Good news, bad news (potentially)

Dropped the van of at the garage this morning and it obviously went straight into the workshop as I was barely into the office before the phone rang. The good news is that despite what the handbook says the problem isn’t the Lambda sensor, however the potentially bad news that it is a low output warning from the Cylinder No. 1 glow plug and if they need changing that’s a couple of hours work and £10 a piece for the five plugs. The fault has been cleared off of the ECU and hasn’t immediately come back but the mechanic is going to give the van a bit of a drive to see if it does come back, however their thoughts are that it is due to the van only being moved a couple of metres up and down the drive way that has caused the problem and the engine could do with a good thrashing to clean out any deposits due to it no having reached proper temperature for a while. Fingers crossed it will only cost me for the read of the ECU and a drop of additive to aid the cleaning process.

Update 11:30am

The garage have just rung, the warning light has not come back on, and nothing has registered on the ECU so the van is already to pickup. Hopefully its not going to be too expensive. Still I would rather have the piece of mind of paying to have the warning checked out than ignoring it and doing something major and more expensive to the engine.