Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Goggy · Nov 28, 2019

I've got a 2006 RRS 2.7ltr diesel automatic. When the temperature drops below zero it will not start. Has anyone got or had the same problem. Very annoying having a 4x4 that does not start when it snows.

brianp38dse · Nov 28, 2019

Its a safety feature so you dont get stuck in the snow

could be glow plug related

Goggy · Nov 28, 2019

brianp38dse said:
Its a safety feature so you dont get stuck in the snow

could be glow plug related

Ha ha, thanks. Unless you are already out in the snow lol.

gold rover · Nov 28, 2019

Goggy said:
I've got a 2006 RRS 2.7ltr diesel automatic. When the temperature drops below zero it will not start. Has anyone got or had the same problem. Very annoying having a 4x4 that does not start when it snows.

Hi. Any other symptoms, than won't start when below zero? Have you tried a new battery? Are the lights coming on but no tick over, tick over but no fire, dead from start to finish, will it start with a jump. How does it run when you do get it started? Have you changed anythi g before this started? Has it started previously when cold? What do diagnostics say?
Help us to help you , give some detail.

Goggy · Nov 28, 2019

gold rover said:
Hi. Any other symptoms, than won't start when below zero? Have you tried a new battery? Are the lights coming on but no tick over, tick over but no fire, dead from start to finish, will it start with a jump. How does it run when you do get it started? Have you changed anythi g before this started? Has it started previously when cold? What do diagnostics say?
Help us to help you , give some detail.

No other issues. When it does start usually when the temperature gets above zero then it works fine. If the temperature is about zero then there are no problems. Battery is brand new. Was told by a mechanic that the battery needed changing. It didn't.

gold rover · Nov 28, 2019

Just as a side note , just seen OP works in Automotive Industry and lives in the Brum area. Asking how to get an RRS to start in the cold. Add that to the guy, a week or two who wanted to know what we needed our keys to do. Anyone else think JLR are finally coming to the owners for help

gold rover · Nov 28, 2019

Goggy said:
No other issues. When it does start usually when the temperature gets above zero then it works fine. If the temperature is about zero then there are no problems. Battery is brand new. Was told by a mechanic that the battery needed changing. It didn't.

Why not?

brianp38dse · Nov 28, 2019

Is it spinning over trying to start or do you turn the key /push button and nothing.

gold rover · Nov 28, 2019

brianp38dse said:
Is it spinning over trying to start or do you turn the key /push button and nothing.

Tried asking those things. No response . Just the battery answer

I truly wish people would help us ( you lot, not me) help them.
Has it been cold in England yet? I left London in a virtually tropical 11° on Sunday afternoon. By the Midlands it was around 9°.

Datatek · Nov 28, 2019

Goggy said:
I've got a 2006 RRS 2.7ltr diesel automatic. When the temperature drops below zero it will not start. Has anyone got or had the same problem. Very annoying having a 4x4 that does not start when it snows.

Needs to go on diagnostics, could be glow plugs or a sensor.

Goggy · Nov 28, 2019

brianp38dse said:
Is it spinning over trying to start or do you turn the key /push button and nothing.

It turns over fine just doesn't start.

Goggy · Nov 28, 2019

gold rover said:
Tried asking those things. No response . Just the battery answer
I truly wish people would help us ( you lot, not me) help them.
Has it been cold in England yet? I left London in a virtually tropical 11° on Sunday afternoon. By the Midlands it was around 9°.

The problem has not yet occurred this year. But in previous years.

biketeacherdave · Nov 28, 2019

It will be the tdv6 engine so glow plugs then

Dopey · Nov 28, 2019

brianp38dse said:
Its a safety feature so you dont get stuck in the snow

could be glow plug related

Cracked me up!

gold rover · Nov 28, 2019

Goggy said:
The problem has not yet occurred this year. But in previous years.

See. That's important information. Did you put diagnostics on in previous years? Did you check glow plugs, as suggested above, in previous years? What have you tried , in previous years,,etc.

Dopey · Nov 28, 2019

gold rover said:
Tried asking those things. No response . Just the battery answer
I truly wish people would help us ( you lot, not me) help them.
Has it been cold in England yet? I left London in a virtually tropical 11° on Sunday afternoon. By the Midlands it was around 9°.

have you seen me in my speedos waling around? .... positively tropical here, not even had the heating on for a week

Ratae · Nov 28, 2019

Diagnostic.
Similar issue with my Sprinter a couple of years ago. One of the glowplugs had failed, putting the warning light on so power disconnected (which shuts all 4 off) until I got round to it.
Forgot about it until winter when it would crank but not start in freezing conditions. Above freezing it was fine.
Replaced faulty glowplug, reconnected power & no further issues.

Dopey · Nov 28, 2019

Glow plugs, nice cheap fix, seems the way to go first?

gold rover · Nov 28, 2019

Dopey said:
have you seen me in my speedos waling around? .... positively tropical here, not even had the heating on for a week

I have

Which is why I rushed back to Scotland

norseman · Nov 28, 2019

Goggy said:
Ha ha, thanks. Unless you are already out in the snow lol.

Then don't turn it off until you get home

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