[Vwdiesel] 97 Passat Glow system

lbaird119 at aol.com lbaird119 at aol.com
Sun Feb 9 00:04:44 PST 2014


Dad's car has been starting hard in this cold.  Starts but lots of cranking so he suspected all 3 glow plugs had failed (one's been broken off for years).  I figured that wasn't likely.  So far we found no power going to the glow plugs but the plugs are good.  That leaves the GP relay or the fuse.
  As I understand it, both are burried up where the sun don't shine, behind the dash somewhere.  
  Anybody know WHERE they are in there before I start digging?  Descriptions say being a contortionist helps and if you know right where it all is, it still takes a good 15 minutes to check/change and that's with dropping the knee bar which I was able to move in the past, but not drop.
  I've seen a picture of  both but it was close in enough that you couldn't tell where it was.  Looked like a shot with the dash removed but obviously wasn't.  Anybody done it that can shed some "light" on this?  Seems Dad's '97 is much harder than my '96, as it has the relay on the fuse panel where his has a jumper,  to power the relocated (where it's hard to find and get to).  Didn't find anything saying if the fuse was relocated from '96 to '97.
   TIA
     Loren


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