Member Since: 13 Jan 2010
Location: Windsor
Posts: 1
Discovery 3 cold start problem
I have a Disco 3 TDV6 HSE 06. During the very cold mornings I have found that when i start the engine it is very rough and lumpy when idle. I have no loss of power, nor is there any dark smoke from the exhaust. When the engine starts to heat up the problem goes and engine when idle is fine and smooth. The car has just had its 4 year service at land rover and no problems flagged up and I do not get any fault lights on the dash. Does anyone have any ideas. Cheers, Ollie
Are you waiting for the glow plugs to heat up?The End
13th Jan 2010 6:52 pm
Tawny Owl
Member Since: 22 Oct 2008
Location: Here and there
Posts: 1645
Mine does this for a few seconds on cold start up
I have tryed cycling the ignition twice on mine to give the glowplugs a second go but still the same
Believe it's not a nice job to change the glow plugs to then find out it's not that.
13th Jan 2010 7:24 pm
pom
Member Since: 10 Feb 2008
Location: Worcestershire
Posts: 1790
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13th Jan 2010 7:56 pm
Tawny Owl
Member Since: 22 Oct 2008
Location: Here and there
Posts: 1645
Gonna laugh with you there pom
One way to screw yer engine up
13th Jan 2010 7:59 pm
timallen12
Member Since: 16 Dec 2011
Location: Oxford
Posts: 3
Mine is also showing this cold start problem these last few mornings.
So is there a fix anyone ?......
16th Dec 2011 10:43 am
J@mes
Member Since: 10 Nov 2008
Location: Bomber County
Posts: 4547
Yeh, get your glowplugs checked, and changed if required. Beware though, I went to one indy and he couldn't get them out. I went to another and after they warned me they might shear off, I took the risk and told them to try. Instead of shearing 1 or 2 off and stopping, they sheared 4 off (the 4 which weren't working) and it cost me £2000 to get them replaced.
Although I accept that had they sheered one or six off, the work to sort the one out would have been the same - body off, heads off, drill them out, fit new ones, replace heads, replace body.
Pros = My car starts with no fuss in the mornings
Cons = I'm £2000 down on what I was last month.
It might be worth trying them yourself if you can have the car parked up for a week, and keep them doused with penetrating fluid (a proper one, not wd40!) and see how you get on. If not, I'd be inclined to ask a proper old school engineering shop to try to remove them, rather than a garage!
2014 D4 XS
2005 D3 SE - Gone
16th Dec 2011 10:48 am
Mr Kington
Member Since: 12 Dec 2011
Location: Scottish Borders
Posts: 1552
Sorry if a silly question but why have Landrover designed them to be so hard to get out ?
16th Dec 2011 4:38 pm
J@mes
Member Since: 10 Nov 2008
Location: Bomber County
Posts: 4547
God knows....m6 steel thread in to an aluminium head = dissimilar metal = stuck tighter than a tight thing.2014 D4 XS
2005 D3 SE - Gone
16th Dec 2011 4:40 pm
Oswiperus D3 Decade
Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Posts: 1592
My 2005 has had slighty lumpy idle for the last couple of winters. However my new BAS fbh controller has covered up this problem quite nicely! Warm engine, no probs.
Stu.
16th Dec 2011 8:59 pm
cmcintosh
Member Since: 06 Jul 2015
Location: Herts
Posts: 6
On Cold days (middle of winter) my D3 has issues catching - can be fixed with liberal easy start! How can I check the glow plugs are functioning correctly? (prefer to do it now when it's warm outside!).
6th Jul 2015 2:01 pm
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