Citroen c5 - Citroen c5 hdi 02 trouble starting

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Sat 23 Feb 2013 13:51
Citroen c5 - Citroen c5 hdi 02 trouble starting - j0hn
Been having some strange problems, cold morning has outright killed my battery via a faulty cell, it would start ok for months and then the car would go into Eco mode, couple of days later it would be dead! Then I would jump start it and be ok for another few months untill the cycle returned.
I changed the battery and I'm still having simular problems, when the cars been sat for a while, like overnight, it really struggles to start, barly turning over untill it finaly kicks in, (with the new battery I'm yet to have a non start or Eco mode)
But then it fires up great for the rest of the day, no problems, I thought it was the cold as its every morning during this weather but the other snowy morning it fired stright up no probs, then the next mild morning started to suffer again, what could this intermittent problem be?

New symptom today, been sat for 2 days, went out to start it up, sounded great but took ages to turn over, short trip to asda and when I went back to the car it was fine, it's abit strange
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Sat 23 Feb 2013 16:31
Citroen c5 - Citroen c5 hdi 02 trouble starting - Peter.N.

I would suspect that you have a tired starter motor but check the battery connections first including the earth connection from the battery negative to the engine or body. The starter demands a lot more power when the engine is cold due to increased oil viscosity. These engine need to turn over fast for trouble free starting.

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Sat 23 Feb 2013 16:55
Citroen c5 - Citroen c5 hdi 02 trouble starting - Collos25

Good advice from Peter ,just a thought have you got the correct battery.

Edited by Collos25 on 23/02/2013 at 16:56

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