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I’ve had this car for years with little trouble. It’s the last year before I replace her, but she’s stopped starting in cold weather only a few months before I have the money for a new car. I can get her started by pointing a fan heater at the engine block for five-ten min, but it’s not ideal. The engine turns over very well. But could the cold be zapping some of the battery power preventing the warming of the engine?
Diesel engines won’t start at low temperature, that’s why engineerings installed Glow Plugs to heat up the combustion chamber. If your Glow plugs works fine so you have to put contact, wait until the spring led goes off, then remove contact, repeat that multiple times (5 to 10 ) and your engine should start correctly.
Yes it could be the battery, the cold will kill a battery and if you replace the battery turn the key back or foward to the on postion which ever shows the engine block heater light and wait for it to go off or to 10-15 minutes
