Land Rover Defender Td5 Cold start #1

[@testpick8137]

Love it. Landys are the best. Always exciting to know if they will start!

[@samuelthorogood3878]

You need to keep it turning over until it fires up. You’ll flatten the battery keep starting and stopping it.

[@MrBlack656]

In winter, it is not advisable for the car to have an empty tank and it is better to start with the clutch depressed.

[@DefenderCanada]

All this is very true

[@priyanelan9760]

Think it is because it is low on fuel the pump making a noise to deliver fuel. I hear that noise with the pump when I first change my fuel filter as the pump is trying to fill the filter and lines with fuel. I have a 2004 TD5

[@DefenderCanada]

Very cold temperature is hard on diesel too. The pump is fine but the diesel tends to gellify...

[@steve0680657]

Use 0w30 oil

[@DefenderCanada]

It has 0W40 in it

[@davidwhitwam4857]

It’s not fuel that’s pumping it’s air. There’s a small torpedo like filter next to the fuel filter, either replace it or chuck it away.

[@nathanreid2974]

is that the fuel pump i hear, or the glow plugs

[@jokullalfre7052]

Fuel pump

[@jjt1093]

Mine goes in -30 quite easy, :) Also got a redt top optima you should get one

[@Schachtens]

AGM better for cold start?

[@Ammersee_defender]

the fuelpump is too loud.. its air in the system...

[@JeremyMAGNE]

I had purged the fuel filter and there was indeed a bit of air left. It has been purged since then. However, with the coolant heater, it started right away.

[@mattyb120]

Pretty much all td5s I know make this noise...

[@jjt1093]

Its not an original VDO I bet thats why

[@Uazboy]

Did you found bad start problem?

[@DefenderCanada]

It can get pretty cold here during winter. Any kind of engine warming will help. I now have a Webasto heater installed and not only it starts at turn key, it also reduced wear on the cylinders. Make sure your fuel non-return valve works well as well as the 4 glow plugs

[@cemaldkact9550]

1999?