TDCI Puma slow to start in cold temperature.

Hi Forum,
My 2007 tdci is struggling to fire when it's very cold outside. We've had 0 degrees in the morning (that's very cold for us soft southerners)! and the engine will crank fine but takes about 10 turns before firing, with a bit of splattering in between. In warmer temperatures it starts after a few turns.
Glow plugs maybe?
Any advice greatly received.

£20- £30 for a full set on ebay.
Sounds like glow plugs.
Frost gave me trouble as well, new plugs and trouble gone.
-10 to -20 here at the moment in the morning.

Superb, I'll give them a go. At - 15 I think even i would have trouble starting !!☺

My Transit Connect tdci had this exact fault and all the glow plugs were faulty. It started fine in warmer weather but as soon as the frost appeared it would take twenty seconds of cranking before it started.
They were dead easy to change, took ten minutes. Three of the four were open circuit.

Thanks lightning, that's really encouraging. I'll order them in time for the weekend.
Cheers

Everybody on the Transit forum said they would be “seized in and will break when you try to extract them” but on my five year old 60,000 mile Connect 1.8 tdci they practically fell out.
I hope that your 2.4tdci is the same!