Maybe more then Glowplugs

[danny1992]

Im guessing my glow plugs need to be changed becuase when i start the car in the cold it takes agers to start and blows loads of white smoke out of the exhaust. Plus iv posted the thread on here to see what other members thought and near enough everybody said Glowplugs need changing. I have not had time over the last month to change these but i think i will get them done on Saturday.

When i start the car in the morning i seem to feel like the car is not very responsive so i dont know if there is something else wrong with it. Its like the car does not go fast at all, and then when the engien seems to have been running for a while it seems to run fine. The car is a 2.0DTI im just wondering wether or not its not the glow plugs after all that is wrong, could this be the turbo on the way out :/. Or are diesles like this in a morning as it is my first diesle car.

the 2.0DTI is not exactly a fast car but i think it seems like slow altogether to be honist. Not must faster then my 1.6 Astra. Is there things that you can do to make them faster iv read about somebody cleaning something out to make it more responsive and things.

Thanks

[Sean-2.2Direct]

Diesels are not very responsive until warmed up mate It was the same on my 1.9 and the Mini D that we have now.

Once warm all should be fine and on cold morning such as these they do give loads of white smoke.

I would still try changing the glowplugs first if its taking a while to start.

But what you have Described there seems normal

[danny1992]

Cheers mate i thought it might just be something to do with it being diesel.

[bigmac]

Are you getting any EML lights on dash when you start it up ? i have a problem with starting mainly when the glowplug light dont come on it cranks and cranks then starts with loads of smoke check my thread out and james24's thread about poor starting from warm

[Sean-2.2Direct]

Cheers mate i thought it might just be something to do with it being diesel.

From what you have said there its the same as what happens to the Mini D and my old CDTI.

The Diesel puts loads of white smoke out when first started on a cold morning all should be well as long as no eml lights are showing up

[tommy tess]

i have the spanner light on when i start my 2,0 ltr dti which means one of the glow plugs is not working.it still starts first time though,engine just fires on three pots first minute then it runs perfect,
tommy

[danny1992]

Yeah i just get the engien and spanner light on thats all. SOmetimes it takes maybe 15 seconds to start but that is with the key held and it just like judders until it starts up.
Thanks

[danny1992]

*I mean just the car and spanner light*

[rjw]

my 1.9 cdti, starts, idles a bit rough then i give it a little revs,chucks a load of smoke and its good as new then, it had a major service last week, and full health check, and i mentioned it to vauxhall, there answer was that my problem is that its a diesel, other than that they said mine is mechanically perfect at 83000 miles!

[danny1992]

That all sounds very pleasing then. Hope mine is fine. Got mot in 2 weeks. Worst time of year normally for me