Starting in the Cold

firestarteruk · Post by **firestarteruk** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:01 am

I'm new to my Qash had it about 5 months. Its a 14 plate so the new shape. 1.6 Diesel.

Cold starting in the mornings after a frost is proving a struggle. I have the push buttion start model, Manual gears.

I assumed that when I pushed the button that the car would wait and heat via glowplugs before turning over.

I seems the car tries to start right away and tries about 3 cycles before firing.

Am I doing something wrong?

ovation99 · Post by **ovation99** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:03 am

Yes you are !
Push the Start button WITHOUT touching the clutch or brake pedals, then wait for the "coil" warning light go out.
Then start as normal

firestarteruk · Post by **firestarteruk** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:41 am

Wow that's great, ill try that next time. Is that in the manual as the preferred method?

ovation99 · Post by **ovation99** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:39 pm

Don't know about that, as I don't have a diesel anymore, but thats what I used to do when I did have a Tekna 1.5 dci.
It makes sense that you have to have the coil at enough temperature to ignite the fuel and obviously this takes a little longer in cold weather.

Brill · Post by **Brill** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:47 pm

We have the diesel automatic model and I always get in, press the start button, then while I am putting my seatbelt on and adjusting seat, mirror etc (because the wife has been driving it) it starts.

duncho · Post by **duncho** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:18 pm

Brill wrote:We have the diesel automatic model and I always get in, press the start button, then while I am putting my seatbelt on and adjusting seat, mirror etc (because the wife has been driving it) it starts.

I don't know how about the manual but CVT does the job itself after you attempt to start the car Brake + Start button (during engine start delay glow plugs are engaged). Starting ignition prior engine start is useless.

gvmdaddy · Post by **gvmdaddy** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:24 pm

Im a 1.5dci, the car sorts itself out just starting as normal. As duncho says, I cant see hitting the start button twice making any difference as the car is not programmed to start unless certain parameters are met.

BWA · Post by **BWA** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:44 am

I have a 1.5dci tekna and don't have to do the double start thing??? When I press clutch and start button my car waits itself until the coil warming light goes out before firing the engine.
On a warm day engine fires almost straight away, on a cold day it takes a few seconds until the car fires the engine

duncho · Post by **duncho** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:27 am

BWA wrote:I have a 1.5dci tekna and don't have to do the double start thing??? When I press clutch and start button my car waits itself until the coil warming light goes out before firing the engine.
On a warm day engine fires almost straight away, on a cold day it takes a few seconds until the car fires the engine

Correct. In general it may feel more rough starting engine in the winter time, however, if you feel it's really struggling better have it checked. The best is if you could compare your car to the same model of someone else, or if you record short video and ask someone to do the same so you can see it yourself

F1 Bob · Post by **F1 Bob** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:51 am

I think everyone has covered this already but just to confirm - our 1.5 dCi starts fine. I just press the start button as normal and there is a short delay then the engine fires up first time every time.

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