Cold starting vectra diesel

Sounds like the fuel is running back to the tank. There's 2 likely causes to this. Either the leak off pipes have perished, which is what I would change first, or the leak off seals on the injectors them selfs are leaking. I'd change the injector leak off pipes, and see if that cures the problem first.

On these cars (or any engine with injectors internal to the head), the leak off pipes are connected to the feed pipe to the injection pump, to prevent diesel getting into the engine oil.

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I have done two vectra's this week with the same symptoms, both were caused by the leak off pipes leaking( a strange way to describe it). Take off the plastic cover on the top of the engine and replace the braided flexible pipes between the injectors, you can buy a kit from most motor factors.

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Not if it's chucking out white smoke - fuel's obviously getting through.

Used to be called 'Spill pipes' presumably from over-spill!

White smoke is caused by the timing being out, which can be caused by air in the system. Even the fly-by-wire injection pumps still rely on diesel to alter the pump timing.

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White smoke is caused by unburnt fuel, no matter what the reason. I'd not pin it definitely on timing. I've had dead glow-plugs cause white smoke, and for that matter I've had poor compression do it, too.

So you could then say that the Spill pipes were spilling?

That last post should of said

White smoke can be caused by the timing being out.

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Fair enough!

You could. Or even ' the spill pipes were leaking!'

No fun in that! If I got to call e'm spill pipes then they then they got to be spilling not leaking. Of course they could be spilling and spilling which would mean they were leaking.

Had exactly the same problem on my 2.2dti vectra. Changing the leak off pipes cured it. The replacment kit from VX costs about £13 (retail) and uses a much better quality pipe. Dave

True!