1.9 td Starting Problems

[aust250378]

Hi All,

beginning of this week the car was getting hard to start from cold so I booked it into local garage who confirmed new glow plugs were required and changed all 4, the following morning it was worse and would not start at all (kept turning over) so got AA to start me and drove straight back to the garage who now said it was the glow plug relay also.

They changed that and all was good for a couple of days until this morning about 0 degrees outside. Turning over but nothing. Tried again later in the day and it struggled but started. So I rang them and said I will be back again to see them on Monday (although my faith in them is waning!).

Any suggestions? Is is possible they are the wrong glow plugs? are the newer HDI ones lower output glow plugs if they used these by mistake?

Regards

Austin

[madmadmax]

the new hdi ones are longer so would not fit, as for starting problems is there a lot of white smoke when starting after all the work has been done.

[aust250378]

Hi,

When it does start there is a bit of smoke..

Austin

[madmadmax]

so its the glow plugs if its white and not black

[midsmike]

the plugs they put in could be faulty i had the same problem wiv my brothers 1.9

[aust250378]

Chaps,

I've been advised that it's the fuel pump relay causing the issue??

I'm sceptical due to it not cutting out while driving and it starting again fine when warm? I plus been told it's an expensive fix?

Is the garage correct?

Thanks

Austin

[steve_earwig]

You're right, that still sounds like a glowplug problem. Your garage sounds like it's not actually testing anything and changing parts (at your expense) in the hope that it'll clear the fault. While glowplugs, glowplug relays and the multi relay all can go faulty I don't think it's likely that they'll all go faulty at the same time.