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typhoo

New Member

• Jan 2, 2010

• #1

Can anyone help please, our TD5 Disco smokes a lot on start up, this only happens on either a very cold or a cold damp morning, it clears after about 2 miles and way before the engine warms up.
Thanks
Typhoo

 

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Sean

Banned

• Jan 2, 2010

• #2

GPs ? - drippy injector ?

what colour is the smoke ?

 

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typhoo

New Member

• Jan 2, 2010

• #3

The smoke is grey colour, the colder and damper the morning the worse it is.
Typhoo

 

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PASTMASTER

Well-Known Member

• Jan 2, 2010

• #4

typhoo said:

The smoke is grey colour, the colder and damper the morning the worse it is.
Typhoo

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Sounds like unburnt fuel. Are your glo-plugs working? Diesels without glo-plugs generally produce bluish-white smoke until the engine's warmed up. It smells stronly of diesel! Alternatively are you sure it's not just condensation in the exhaust?

 

B3aker

Well-Known Member

• Jan 2, 2010

• #5

There's been alot of questions about this over the last couple of weeks. Mine has the same symptoms runs fine after the engines warmed up. Take a while for the 5th cylinder to start firing on mine, need to change the glow plugs should sort it.

 

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Sean

Banned

• Jan 2, 2010

• #6

B3aker said:

Take a while for the 5th cylinder to start firing on mine, need to change the glow plugs should sort it.

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that's normal, there's only 4 GPs

tis the weather that does it

 

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typhoo

New Member

• Jan 3, 2010

• #7

thanks for the replies, will change the glow plugs, isuppose thats the cheapest and easiest option.

 

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PASTMASTER

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• Jan 3, 2010

• #8

typhoo said:

thanks for the replies, will change the glow plugs, isuppose thats the cheapest and easiest option.

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Check the circuit first. Changing a fuse is cheaper and easier.