Your glow plugs will only work if the temperature of the water in your cooling system is below a preset setting, this is controlled by the sender unit in the thermostat housing. On vectra c there is only one sender.
On vectra b there are two, big one for glow plugs, little one for temp gauge. It may be vauxhall need to plug in and reset the ecu, check the sender units first.
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