Diesel Astra - Trouble starting in the morning

Just thought I'd reply as you have a similar screen name to me :-)

But then thought I'd better chuck in a quasi-useful comment. You know the type - semi-useful, the diet coke of useful - one calorie, not useful enough.

So here goes - it might be worth taking it to someone with the right equipment and checking that the timing is bang on.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

Is it an interference engine - did you clout the vavles with the piston? I'd want to bung a compression tester on to make sure it's getting up to pressure first.

I'd second that suggestion. Have seen one with the timing out (think it was

Check the valve clearances, they tend to close up on the exhausts that makes cold staring tricky.

For £600, I would hope that the garage replaced any damaged valves! Anyway, low compression would mean poor starting all the time, not just when cold.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember DuncanWood saying something like:

You're right.

The other tedious one on those is if the main relay pack starts playing up the first syptom is difficulty starting.