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Hi to you all, thanks for excepting me as a member. I have this cold start problem with my 2004 1.9 Berlingo, it started really when we had a trip to Andorra in August, after an overnight stop at an hotel up in the mountains it did`nt want to start, so I coasted downhill to fire it up, after that its been bad to start when cold ,its ok once warm no problem. I have just serviced it this week, renewed the fuel filter and o rings,primed up like it says in the haynes manual!, fitted a new set of NGK glow plugs, checked for leaks by raising the rear of the car to see if any pipes weeping, battery fully charged, is there any easy way to bleed the system, I suspect I`ve still got air in the system?, also is there a none return valve or filter from the tank? any help would be grateful, (Its minus 4 in the mornings here in s/w of France at moment, so my garage is a little nippy too!!). kind regards hunnsy
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Hi hunnsy welcome to the forum, how many miles has your motor got on it as the 1.9 tend to close up the valve clearances when you get over 100,000 making them hard to start when its stone cold. Once warm they are fine for the rest of the day. There are various threads on the forum about it.
Are we there yet?????
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Is this really the case? I've had 20 years experiencing of dealing with 1.9s and had loads over 100k, some well over 200k and have never experienced this problem. I've never seen it mentioned on other French car forums either, only here..
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