Poor starting, glow plug???

[baskie]

Hi all, ages since I've been on the site.

Firts off I'm please to report I'm keeping the T2. After getting the Navara I've had it for sale (3 months now) but the value has dropped to silly cheap, so have decided to hang onto it. The Nav (new 07 version) is just way to big for daily duties so the T2 will remain the main family car.

Anyway, it's starting getting a bit iffy on start up. If I double heat the glow plugs (ie wait til the light goes out, then turn off, turn on and wait till it goes out a 2nd time) it starts much better, but if I just turn on, wait, then try to start, the engine turns over loads before it finally starts.

Is this a sign the glow plugs are done (2003 2.7 TDi with 50k on clock) or is it something else?

If glowplugs, wasy to do yourself, or best take to a garage?

Regards

steve

 

[Toolbox]

It does sound like the plugs, worth changing them all anyway. Fairly easy job I think there is a download on this.

 

[steveloft]

Mine was getting very hard to start, so changed the glow plugs (tested the old ones and they had failed completely), fitted a new battery, and then needed a new starter motor. It now starts like a dream, I hardly have to touch the key.

I don't have an intercooler, but there were other gubbins in the way, but I still managed to change them without taking anything else off. If you do have an intercooler, which comes off easily, changing the plugs would be an absolute doddle, just about as easy as changing spark plugs on a petrol engine.

Steve