How can a glow plug failure lead to faulty injectors! (rhetorical question)

@Max Normal what was the outcome?
Ok, so they sent all of my injectors off to a local company that specialises in injectors and it came back that they were all severely blocked and this is why the engine would not run. They were either replaced or unblocked, I don't know which.

I was informed that the impellor in my fuel pump had disintegrated and caused the blockage, so the fuel pump needed replacement in addition to the water pump and belt.

In total, cost was £3000.00. The garage said that they had done a lot of the work for free as the van had come in as a runner.

What is weird is I had just done a tour of Wales in her, and she'd been servcied and MOT'd a couple of weeks earlier (by the same garage) and she'd been running as sweet as a nut.

The only explanation that the garage could think of was that the impellor was already breaking down, and had fully disintegrated in during the glow plug change by terrible coincidence, and therefore that it was not their fault.

I did promise to mention the garage, and this should be taken on balance as it may therefore not have been their fault at all, and they may actually have helped me out by not charging some of the labour. It was Brookspeed in Eastleigh, who are generally considered a high-end and generally respected establishment.
 
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