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Model Specific Questions and Info => MK3 Golf/Jetta and B3/B4 Passat => Topic started by: vixentd on January 14, 2016, 02:56:47 am

Title: AAZ hard to start when cold All glow plugs good
Post by: vixentd on January 14, 2016, 02:56:47 am

Factory crate motor with the D crank about 100000 kms ago.  Go to 24 degrees Fahrenheit and is very hard to start. When glowed the plugs 4 or 5 times it then started and seemed to run on 2 cylinders for a few seconds.

I have.
1.  Check he ohms on the glowplugs.  And just to make sure removed all the glow plugs and they heat up on the battery.

Any chance it could be
1.  Injectors ?  Car runs fine once started.
2.  Timing has gone out?  Haven't checked it yet?

never Come across this before.

Title: Re: AAZ hard to start when cold All glow plugs good
Post by: ORCoaster on January 14, 2016, 11:52:40 pm

If it runs fine after just a bit but is hard to start I would be looking for an air leak on the pump or the lines to it.  Sounds to me that a  the glows are doing as they should.  Front seal good or leaking?  Remember a vacuum will leak sooner than a pressure leak.