Bailes1992
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I've purchased a known good second hand PAS pump for £60. Not looking forward to swapping that out again, but needs must.
Another issue we've had with the car is an "Engine Service Required" message. Plugging in a basic diagnostics tool showed 3 DTC's for defunct glow plugs in cylinders 2, 3 and 5. Weirdly, no engine management light.
I did a quick resistance check and found glow plugs 2 and 3 to have a very high resistance and glow plug 5 completely open circuit.
I whipped them out and it's quite obvious that 2, 3 and 5 clearly weren't doing an awful lot by how sooty they are.
So I threw in a set of Ridex branded plugs from AUTODOC with a decent-but-thin smear of FEBI 26712 (I recommend this to anyone for use on glow plugs, injectors, spark plugs etc).
And torqued to 8nm.
Good news is the DTC's cleared themselves on first start up, however we are still getting this message...
I've ordered a suitable cable for Volvo VIDA so I can look at whatever error code is causing this in more detail as clearly a basic ELM 327 isn't good enough and has led me up the wrong path. Or right path? Cause the glowplugs did need replacing. But not the path that's causing this error.
Those with keen eyes will also notice the SRS light on, that'll be because I had to move the car a few feet up my drive with the seats out and it registered an error and it will not clear. Again, VIDA needed so a worthwhile investment I think.
I decided to drain the oil. The stuff in here has been in there for 6 months and around 8,000miles so was about-due in my opinion.
Oil filter in a fantastic location and so easy to change too! Why don't all cars have top mounted oil filters?
Old filter...
New filter...
And torque'd to 25.5nm precisely...
And being that it doesn't have any low SAPS requirement, BITOG's favourite went in...
Another issue we've had with the car is an "Engine Service Required" message. Plugging in a basic diagnostics tool showed 3 DTC's for defunct glow plugs in cylinders 2, 3 and 5. Weirdly, no engine management light.
I did a quick resistance check and found glow plugs 2 and 3 to have a very high resistance and glow plug 5 completely open circuit.
I whipped them out and it's quite obvious that 2, 3 and 5 clearly weren't doing an awful lot by how sooty they are.
So I threw in a set of Ridex branded plugs from AUTODOC with a decent-but-thin smear of FEBI 26712 (I recommend this to anyone for use on glow plugs, injectors, spark plugs etc).
And torqued to 8nm.
Good news is the DTC's cleared themselves on first start up, however we are still getting this message...
I've ordered a suitable cable for Volvo VIDA so I can look at whatever error code is causing this in more detail as clearly a basic ELM 327 isn't good enough and has led me up the wrong path. Or right path? Cause the glowplugs did need replacing. But not the path that's causing this error.

Those with keen eyes will also notice the SRS light on, that'll be because I had to move the car a few feet up my drive with the seats out and it registered an error and it will not clear. Again, VIDA needed so a worthwhile investment I think.
I decided to drain the oil. The stuff in here has been in there for 6 months and around 8,000miles so was about-due in my opinion.
Oil filter in a fantastic location and so easy to change too! Why don't all cars have top mounted oil filters?
Old filter...
New filter...
And torque'd to 25.5nm precisely...
And being that it doesn't have any low SAPS requirement, BITOG's favourite went in...