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Hi all,
my other half owns a 2013 1.4 diesel Venga and for a while now it has struggled to start.
It takes a good 10 to 20 seconds to start in cold weather, although once it has fired up, the idle is smooth and normal, not lumpy. After the engine has started it runs as normal and there is no lack of power. It will fire back up straight away, but will struggle to start again once left overnight.
It has been to an independent garage for a service and they couldn't find anything wrong with it. They changed the fuel filter and checked the glow plugs which they said were working.
Eventually after too many long cranks and short journeys, the battery died, so I jump started the car from my car and it fired up straight away. Great, must be a duff battery then, so I changed the battery and the problem is still the same.
There are no warning lights on the dash and I also plugged in an OBD-II tool and it didn't come back with anything either.
I've scoured the internet and this forum for ideas and can't find anything similar.
I'm completely at a loss to understand what the problem may be. My last port of call is to check the glow plugs myself on the off-chance that the garage didn't correctly diagnose a fault with them.
Any ideas or suggestions of things to check would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Steve.
my other half owns a 2013 1.4 diesel Venga and for a while now it has struggled to start.
It takes a good 10 to 20 seconds to start in cold weather, although once it has fired up, the idle is smooth and normal, not lumpy. After the engine has started it runs as normal and there is no lack of power. It will fire back up straight away, but will struggle to start again once left overnight.
It has been to an independent garage for a service and they couldn't find anything wrong with it. They changed the fuel filter and checked the glow plugs which they said were working.
Eventually after too many long cranks and short journeys, the battery died, so I jump started the car from my car and it fired up straight away. Great, must be a duff battery then, so I changed the battery and the problem is still the same.
There are no warning lights on the dash and I also plugged in an OBD-II tool and it didn't come back with anything either.
I've scoured the internet and this forum for ideas and can't find anything similar.
I'm completely at a loss to understand what the problem may be. My last port of call is to check the glow plugs myself on the off-chance that the garage didn't correctly diagnose a fault with them.
Any ideas or suggestions of things to check would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Steve.