OK people......UPDATE on the glow plug issue......Yes, I emailed Chris from Kraftwerk. He seems like a good mechanic, but I wanted to try to fix it myself first. Sooooooo........I tested the glow plugs, 3 out of 4 were DEAD. Now they are fixed (HA....it's a good feeling). However, this morning, my car wouldn't start (bad feeling). Eventually, I got her started and begain my diagnostics again.
Searched and searched for the coolant plugs. With Wingnut's fast and friendly help, I found them. Then, I tested them the same way I tested my glow plugs, with a tester light. I didn't know whether or not the engine key should be off or on, so I tested them both ways.
Yuck...they were rusty, so I knew they wouldn't work. The light didn't light. So, until I can order new ones, I put dialectic greese on the harnesses and put some "Blaster" penetrating catalyst on the coolant glow plugs to clean them off and I scrubbed them with a clean copper brillow pad I had in my kitchen (the kind with no soap).
I also tried to unhook the coolant sensor thingy. It took a while to find this too, but I did! I couldn't press the tab with my thumb and wiggle the connector out of the socket like Wingnut said in Glow Plug 101 2.0.
So...I got bored and tried to crawl under my car...in the dark....with a head lamp on my head. I enjoyed it! Makes me feel empowered!
I sprayed "Blaster" on some bolts and things I saw under there that looked sort of rusty. I also sprayed some WD-40 type lubricant on some electrical componants under the hood. While looking under the hood, I found another electrical thingy that looks similar to the coolant sensor plug. This plug is on the passenger side, near the front toward the head light around the radiator area.
Could this possibly be the MAF? Is this the thing Wingnut suggested we try to unplug (for practice) and plug back again? No offense, what the heck is a MAF, no matter. Anyway....I may have found it and I'll practice the thumb tab trick first and try to unplug the coolant sensor plug so I can test my harness and relay.
If I could figure out how to post pictures on this website, I'd demonstrate what I'm doing. Maybe some poor soul can reap some benefit, maybe I could explain my sigtuation better to you. Maybe you guys would get a good laugh!!!!
NOTE to self: Ever hear of more women working on their TDIs? Are there any good woman mechanics or is this one of the last guy frontiers?
Anyway.....I got board and I'm frustrated so I did something else:
I went into my husband's tools to find a 12mm thing-a-ma-bob and a long thingy that you use with the thing-a-ma-bob. We don't have the 12mm and the thing-a-ma-bobs we have a too short. So, I know what's on my grocery list when I go to CAP tomorrow. I need some coolant glow plugs and a 12mm long socket and a nice long handled wrench. I'll price coolant sensors too while I'm there. I wouldn't doubt there's issues with all of it.
Then, I fantasized about whether or not the socket wrenches and ratchets have pink or colored handles, or special grips for small hands........how about neon green.
Oh, I want my own tool bag too...of course. Girls can't have too many bags you know.
The last thing I did was, I took some pictures of my garden Gnome and my Beetle, with the tarp under the hatch.......and the air freshner tree too (laughing)!
So, all is not lost....it's still a good day. I'll figure out how to start my car again without glow plugs or whatever...coolant sensors or whatever, again in the morning.