Sort of. It's more associated with chucking lots of unburnt diesel out of the exhaust. So, yeah, it's emissions...
It'll have glow plugs, but they're not needed until it's well below freezing.
Diesel Engines - Starting
Sep 14, 2006
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Not sure about mazda but VW state that "you can start the engine without waiting for the glowplug light to go out as long as the temperature is above 5C"
Hope this helps
phil
DervMan wrote:
My renualt espace doesn'tuse then unless it's -11degs.
Nick
Do you mean it doesn't show the warning light, or it genuinely doesn't use them? :-p
ECU-controlled, direct injection diesels don't need them to the same degree because it can retard the fuel injection until the mixture is compressed more and therefore hotter.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "mr p" saying something like:
If you keep your foot off the clutch, the only bit in the gearbox being turned is the input shaft, which is well clear of the oil, so very little drag.
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