by ricc » Mon Jan 09, 2017 9:16 pm
the york diesel had a reputation for bad cold starting , neighbour of ours had one for a while. always used easystart, always smoked,
my year 2000 mk 5 is one of the last 2,5 di engines , its got some sort of pats immobiliser, which as far as can find out just affects the starter and stop solenoid electrics.
the turbo di had a lucas epic injection pump with electronics. lot of people have fitted the bosch pump from the normal di to get shot of the electronics.
mk 6 onwards have all the electronic crap on the engines.