Cold Starting probelms

many things as haynes says,air filter element dirty or clogged.wax formed in fuel line. air in fuel system. injection pump timing incorrect.preheating system fault.thats some of the things in the book..

sorry i try again. Many things Haynes says. Air Filter Element dirty or clogged. Wax forming in fuel line. Air in fuel system. Injection pump timing incorrect. Preheating system fault. just some of the things it could be,

With the HDI engine, you can discount things like injection pump timing. Air in fuel line is also unlikely if it has a Bosch system. (fuel lift pump gives something like 3 bars pressure, so any problem would result in fuel leakage). The HDI engine has so many electronic bits controlling it that fault finding is difficult, and really the only way forward is to get a readout of the fault codes.

So its got to go on a machine to find fault.in other words,

It doesn't necessarily mean a Pug agent though. Most repairers have the hand held gadgets that can download the messages, my excellent one man business guy certainly has.

I did have one till i left it out one night and it got very wet .

They don't respond well to that sort of treatment do they ;o)

Keith

It did not work at all after that , but got to buy new one .. one day

try give an starting aid. and be sure that you use battery with CCA

sorry, my english bad.

Certainly you don't need to go to a main dealer, but there are problems with connecting to Pugs, and many of the low end readers do not work on some models, depending on the year. Something to do with the introduction of multiplex wiring. However, ones like the Dec Superscan, and Sykes ACR4 work fine, and can even reset warnings about additive level low.