Starting Problems

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Patrol 3L 2000 TD.

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Firstly I took the car to West End Diesel in Sydney, I explained the problem to them....they told me to get Nissan to look at it first.....If they cannot fix it while it is still under warranty, leave it with us it may cost them a mint they said....so get Nissan to looked at while its under warranty.

I took the car into Nissan on Monday afternoon. I have previously had it serviced, run a course of additives thru it.....same problems.... sometimes have trouble starting first thing in the morning or after being sitting idle for a period of time ie 5 seconds of cranking before firing)

Wednesday I called...they said they had followed Nissan Head office guidelines but still it still had the problem. (There was the admission I was after....something was wrong), I was told possibly the Primer Pump was faulty (which primed the Injector pump?). Once again they were waiting for further instructions from head office.

Thursday they said they were told to change the Primer pump....none in stock, I can pick the car up on Friday.

On picking the car up I was told.

They checked for blockages, compression, glow plugs, (may of been more but I cannot remember) changed the primer pump. Call us next week if the problem still occurs.

Heres the killer. I was told when starting, turn the key to "on", when the glow plug lamp goes off, wait a further 15 seconds then start and all should be ok

Does anyone sit in their car 20-25 seconds before starting it?

I thought when you turned the ignition to "on" it heats the glow plugs, once the light goes off this is the optimum time to start. Also when the glow plug warning light goes off, I thought it cut the power to the glow plugs? As if you leave the ignition in the "on" postion and the plugs are on all the time, wouldn't this burn them out or drain the battery?

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