willh
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I've searched and read another few threads on this, but can't seem to find an answer for my symptoms and coming into the proper cold months I need to get it sorted!
My car has had new glow plugs and a battery, starts quickly first time all day, but takes ages turning first thing in the morning when it's cold. I've tried turning the key to position 1 to light the glow plugs light until it switches off, then backing off and repeating a few times but this doesn't seem to help.
It runs great and nothing's been changed recently that would have otherwise affected it. One clue to the problem source may be in the glow plug light, as the illumination time doesn't change whether the car is hot or cold, so my thoughts were that the sensor that controls how much heat the plugs give is shot? Where is this sensor and what is it called?
I can't think that other problems such as timing, injectors etc could be to blame as I have no other issues, only when the block is totally cold, but maybe someone else can contradict this?
Thanks in advance for your help!
My car has had new glow plugs and a battery, starts quickly first time all day, but takes ages turning first thing in the morning when it's cold. I've tried turning the key to position 1 to light the glow plugs light until it switches off, then backing off and repeating a few times but this doesn't seem to help.
It runs great and nothing's been changed recently that would have otherwise affected it. One clue to the problem source may be in the glow plug light, as the illumination time doesn't change whether the car is hot or cold, so my thoughts were that the sensor that controls how much heat the plugs give is shot? Where is this sensor and what is it called?
I can't think that other problems such as timing, injectors etc could be to blame as I have no other issues, only when the block is totally cold, but maybe someone else can contradict this?
Thanks in advance for your help!