sister in law has a mk4 fiesta diesel that wont start, its cranking but not firing. Anyone got any ideas?

 

The first thing i would be checking for is to see if your glow plugs are working and getting power to them.

 

has it been sitting for long? try first of all to give the glow plugs a couple of heats, turn the ignition on wait for the glow plug light to go out then listen for a click, (relay clicking) do that a couple of times and then try and start it, if not give it a sniff of easy start, if none of them work, then as was said above, but their easy quick way's

cheers

 

easy start just a 2 second spray

 

if the glow plugs are shagged and they can just chuck their hand in, a quick tow up the road on a rope can get it running easy, i used to use a can of bradex on trannysand escort diesel vans as it was cheeper than a new hd battery, the 1.8 d's like a good battery when its freezing, bradex with its aromatic potion of lethal gases could start anything imo

 

is it getting diesel?

 

aint been and looked at it yet, my knowledge of derv is a bit limited thou tbh, so just trying to get a idea of what it might be. how does the pumping system work in these? one from the tank and one in the bay?