flookyk
Active Member
I am after some advice from the knowledgeable voices in the sky .......
....... YES, I mean you lot.
My 1998 P38 diesel has started having problems starting on a morning from cold, it was intermittant, happening once every couple of weeks or so but has happened both yestrerday and today.
When it starts from cold OK, you hear a sort of whinning noise from the front drivers side, as though something is priming, as the glow plug light is on. This seems to stop around the time the glow plug light goes out and starts up no problem. The "priming" noise sometimes occurs when you try and start it when warm and sometimes not but it starts OK.
When it plays up, you turn the ignition key to the point the glow plug light is one and instead of the "priming" noise being the 5 second or so continuous noise it is an on and off noise as though it is not "priming" correctly.
Does anyone know what this "priming" is so I can see what is causing it not to "prime" correctly when it is starting from cold on a morning?
....... YES, I mean you lot.
My 1998 P38 diesel has started having problems starting on a morning from cold, it was intermittant, happening once every couple of weeks or so but has happened both yestrerday and today.
When it starts from cold OK, you hear a sort of whinning noise from the front drivers side, as though something is priming, as the glow plug light is on. This seems to stop around the time the glow plug light goes out and starts up no problem. The "priming" noise sometimes occurs when you try and start it when warm and sometimes not but it starts OK.
When it plays up, you turn the ignition key to the point the glow plug light is one and instead of the "priming" noise being the 5 second or so continuous noise it is an on and off noise as though it is not "priming" correctly.
Does anyone know what this "priming" is so I can see what is causing it not to "prime" correctly when it is starting from cold on a morning?