Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:17:03 +0100 From: "e.cognard" <e.cognardnopsamdoo.fr> Subject: Re: Frozen TiD!
"Johannes H Andersen" <johsnopsamanytime.co.uk> a ネcrit dans le message news: 1ec6845d.0112100757.39e090a9nopsaming.google.com... > robwremovethisnopsammaster.co.uk (Rob) wrote in message news:<bdae7638.0112100227.7497548anopsaming.google.com>... > > "Utilisateur1" <e.cognardnopsamdoo.fr> wrote in message news:<9v070n$497$1nopsamdoo.fr>... > > > Anyone come up with a TiD engine that cannot be started when it is getting > > > below 41ェ outside ? Eventually, I'd like to use my 93 TiD (21/2 years old) > > > even in winter. > > > > It's been around freezing here (32ェ/0イ) on and off for the last few > > weeks, and no problem starting my TiD. Equally last year, I recall > > some pretty cold mornings of around -5イ when it started no problem. > > > > When you say it cannot be started, what happens? Does it turn over > > fine but just not start? In previous diesels (Cit, Pug) this would > > indicate a heater plug problem, but not even sure is the 9-3 has > > heater plugs! I guess this one has got some heater plug... Actually, the problem is that when I turn the key to ignite, the engine starts but only for two or three seconds. Then, it dies off and I cannot start it. Yet, this does not happen when the car is parked in its garage, where it never goes below 10イ/50ェ. > > AFAIK, oil companies mixes their diesel oils to local and seasonal > temperature conditions. I wonder if you have got the right diesel soup. I'm pretty sure that the soup is correct enough because my wife get the same for her Golf TDI, and this one always starts at once, even by -15イ/5ェ.