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Eyebrows123 · Sep 21st, 2020, 11:17

Recently my 1996 940 (B230FK) has been taking longer to start (a few more turns of the starter motor before firing happily as usual). It's happening only when the engine is hot and I go to restart it. Starting from normal ambient temperature seems to be fine, I don't yet know if cold weather affects it as we haven't had any cold mornings yet. Any idea what could be causing this? As soon as it fires, it starts and runs happily.

Engine (lambda) light is not on

Last time I had symptoms like this it was the ECT sensor (which i replaced 1 year ago), but that triggered the engine light and it was replaced 1 year ago with a FEBI/bilstein item so I'm doubting it would fail that quickly?

What do you reckon it would be?

Sep 21st, 2020, 11:17	#1
Eyebrows123 Member Last Online: Jan 15th, 2024 08:33 Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Cambridge/Bristol	940 taking longer to start when warm Recently my 1996 940 (B230FK) has been taking longer to start (a few more turns of the starter motor before firing happily as usual). It's happening only when the engine is hot and I go to restart it. Starting from normal ambient temperature seems to be fine, I don't yet know if cold weather affects it as we haven't had any cold mornings yet. Any idea what could be causing this? As soon as it fires, it starts and runs happily. Engine (lambda) light is not on Last time I had symptoms like this it was the ECT sensor (which i replaced 1 year ago), but that triggered the engine light and it was replaced 1 year ago with a FEBI/bilstein item so I'm doubting it would fail that quickly? What do you reckon it would be? Last edited by Eyebrows123; Sep 21st, 2020 at 12:02.