right, how was your VRS to start this morning?

[JakeSVRS]

Do your Fabias sound rattly for the first second of the engine running then goes quiet again?

[rossa123]

No problem starting - glow plug light on for a little longer - I needed fuel urgently and found that the filler release was frozen!

Need to take care here as not a good plan to snap the cable - nice guy in the petrol station gave me some warm water !!

[rickmeister]

Nothing out of the ordinary, bit of white smoke, runs fine... two goes on the glowplugs and its perfect.

[hutchysrs50]

Do your Fabias sound rattly for the first second of the engine running then goes quiet again?

A tad, like you say only for the first second. Just sounds like a typical diesel knock but goes away before you can take much notice.

[Dougie S]

Same as usual

[Binzie]

new battery last weekend, glow plug light didnt even come on, indicated -1

[Benjiman]

Took me a good 5 mins to start the car this morning.

Had a hire car, one without keys - it baffled me!

[vRS Joe]

Started perfectly as always this morning. I started it at -17 Celsius once - sounded a bit rough for a second, that was it.

[No.733]

A tad, like you say only for the first second. Just sounds like a typical diesel knock but goes away before you can take much notice.

Perfectly normal. That's just because the oil hasn't circulated around the engine in that first instant.

Mine starts first turn of the starter motor, but it takes AGES to clear the inside of the windscreen. You'd think the windscreen vents were blocked (which they're not). It's going back into Skoda because I'm sure the air con isn't working properly.

[Dudeoli]

No dramas, never had a car fail to start for me

[bluecar1]

Perfectly normal. That's just because the oil hasn't circulated around the engine in that first instant.

Mine starts first turn of the starter motor, but it takes AGES to clear the inside of the windscreen. You'd think the windscreen vents were blocked (which they're not). It's going back into Skoda because I'm sure the air con isn't working properly.

check the pollen filter is not blocked and one thing to note is aircon does not work at below about 6deg C to prevent the evaporator from freezing up Edited 30 November, 2012 by bluecar1

[bluecar1]

jake, have a check of the glow plugs, pull the black rubber bus bar off and check continuity, normal give away of a failed glowplug is a lot of whitish diesel smoke as it starts due to one or more cylinders with a glowplug out and not quite having enough compression to fire due to cold clyinder walls

[@Lee]

not a vRS (why do some threads always have to be vRS specific?) but a 1.9TDi, no starting issues this morning, yesterday or ever! As mentioned, foot on the clutch to take some load off, wait for the glowplug light to go off, then crank it! Alternatively;

it's a genuine product, but I'd never use it :no:

http://www.nulon.com.au/products/Aerosols/Start_Ya_******_Instant_Engine_Starter/#.ULjTUmd1sk4

[Kevin_Mc]

i left my vRS at Edinburgh Airport from Tuesday night until Sunday morning and it started without any issues despite sitting out in the cold. The handbrake was a bit stiff to release though but that's to be expected in this weather

[trebormint]

touch wood, it's been starting no problem.

[TriggerFish]

Not a Fabia, but having seen others in this thread with the same thing, I thought I'd ask.

Why, when it's cold, do some TDIs kick out blue smoke? My 330d smokes out the driveway for a while when starting from cold, as did my Golf (PD150). I let the DDE/glow plug light go out too on both.

[vindaloo]

Found the fault to be the load signal cable. heres the guide if anyone has the same problems.

http://www.seatcupra...ad.php?t=209472

Oh dear, I think I linked that exact same thread/post within the past 2 months. Have you had the starter solenoid one go yet?

[hutchysrs50]

My alternator only puts out 10v most of the time also, didnt think it would be the load wire problem though since i've got no lights on the dash and no fault codes...

[Big deano]

Mine starts fine sounds a bit rattly and rough for about 5 seconds then fine

[Ryy.P]

Oh dear, I think I linked that exact same thread/post within the past 2 months. Have you had the starter solenoid one go yet?

explain this one too me! another wire? :(

[VRSD30]

It was minus 4 this morning and she started fine after the glow plug light went off, however a bit more smoke puffed out the exhaust than usual.