Cold Start Issue

Tong Lu · January 9, 2016

Does anyone else have issues starting the truck in the morning, it takes a couple cranks before it starts up. The battery is brand new, just seeing if anyone else have this issue or if I should start looking into thi.

JRL1164 · January 9, 2016

It's because it's a direct injection motor. It's normal mine take a few extra revolutions to get it going once the cold whether rolls in.

redwngr · January 9, 2016

As JLR1164 says, it's because the the DI motor.

http://sandyblogs.com/techlink/?p=2971

Link has a crank time chart.

RhinoGuy · January 10, 2016

Mine has the same problem. Dealer says it's normal.

SMiller · January 10, 2016

It's because it's a direct injection motor. It's normal mine take a few extra revolutions to get it going once the cold whether rolls in.

x2, welcome to diesel technology.

GMCguy78 · January 10, 2016

It's normal. it's pretty sad my duramax started quicker than my 6.2

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redwngr · January 10, 2016

It's normal. it's pretty sad my duramax started quicker than my 6.2

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I still can't get out of the habit of waiting for the glow plugs

Tong Lu · January 10, 2016

Thanks for all the responses!

Aubie_01 · January 11, 2016

I almost always use remote start and so far no problems.

Tong Lu · January 14, 2016

Yea I use the remote start as well, just being paranoid since my other two cars are both GDI and they start right up in the morning. Just chalk it up as GM's feature.

hayes369 · January 14, 2016

I've heard similar complaints about subaru DI engines

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Tek74 · January 15, 2016

Glad I saw this thread. I was a bit curious about it myself.

Exhausted · January 16, 2016

Does yours also have a weird rattle or something on cold start for about 1 second? Mine does but only on cold start.

But I agree it takes longer for sure

Long time coming · January 16, 2016

No problems with mine so far. Temperatures been around -25 deg.C that's -13 deg.F for my American friends for the last few weeks. Haven't even plugged the block heater in this winter.

davidio840 · January 16, 2016

Does yours also have a weird rattle or something on cold start for about 1 second? Mine does but only on cold start.

But I agree it takes longer for sure

Mine does it. I have no idea what it is. Sounds like the gears grinding or something? I made a thread about it a few months back but didn't get much of a response. It only does it on a cold start.