L Series Glow Plugs

Can someone recommend some good quality glow plugs for my 2000/V reg L series?

My Freelander is very difficult to start from cold, usually in the morning. It turns over with smoke from the exhaust for sometime before firing (sometimes I don't thinks it's going to go at all). Fuel filter and battery have been changed but once it's going it runs fine, no hesitancy or cutting out.

The established part code for the glow plugs on Paddocks, Rimmer Bros etc websites is NCC100050L but the prices for these seem to vary wildly depending on the website from about £4 to £11 each - are they all the same or are some better than others?

Cheers all & Happy New Year

You do know that in cold weather, you should wait for the gloplug light to go out (several seconds) before cranking the thing? Otherwise it will pump a lot of fuel in, not ignite it, and leave you with a nasty cloud of smelly diesel smoke.

Oh, and, as I discovered, a leaky turbo hose also makes em smoke hard on acceleration.

I have waited for the glow plugs to go out before cranking the engine on every diesel car I have had for the past 15 years, regardless of the weather ;-). It does not appear to smoke on acceleration any more than normal so I think my hoses are OK.

It would not fire this morning at all (very cold) - however, I tried a remedy suggested by a breakdown truck driver sometime ago - i.e spray some dashboard cleaner into the air intake (unclip from the filter housing) and it fired as good as gold after about two seconds - anybody any idea if this points to anything?

Dash cleaner ignites easier than diesel.

Change your glow plugs.

Mine was the same this morning, checked all glowplugs this morning with multi-meter, all fine. I am running on 90% Bio Diesel, so put another Tenner in this afternoon, so that as brought it down to about 50% Bio 50% Dino, so i will see if there is a change in the morning.

This morning started first turn of the key, so i will keep the Bio ratio 50/60% until the cold spell as gone.