This is a relatively fresh 1.9TD aaz motor with around 3000 kms on it.
Came out of work just now and tried to start the car and it half cranked and stopped, seemed like it fired but just puffed and shut down.. did that 2-3 times in a row (had the cold start lever pulled out at the time, and just charged the glow plugs up with one cycle).
Pushed the cold start in, and this is probably not related, but it started right up after the third or fourth try.
Could this be related to a bad ignition switch, possibly not getting the starter to turn over enough for the motor to catch? Kind of worried here, because it almost seemed like the compression was off by the way it puffed after it stopped each time I tried cranking.