Poor start up from cold. Diesel engine.

getmore4less

You open the bonnet and find which battery is on the car.

Information usually on the top.
Take a photo of everything you can see so you have every number on the top sides and don't need to go back outside to check when you find where the code is.

Then Google that battery manufacturers date coding.

Some are stickers some are stamped into the case top or side.
Some are hidden in a code stamped on the case

If lucky it will be on the top where you can see it.
............
Short run to gym cold and probably low revs most of the time might not top up the draw from first start.

forgotmyname

One battery seller used to stamp the top of the battery terminals. Month on one and Year on the other.

Plenty of posts on various boards to test the battery yourself.

Slow start could be a weak battery, worn starter motor, weak glowplugs or other issues like dodgy injectors
leaking pressure when parked.

JustAnotherSaver

I forgot to say - they tested the injectors and claim that they were fine.

Bigwheels1111

A diesel poor starting in the cold. I’ve only had diesels for the last 30 years.
Go down the list.
Slow turning over, battery.
Turning over and struggling to start glow plugs.
Never had an injector fail, in over a million miles of driving diesels.
All the diesels I’ve owned had 100k miles on them when I got them.
Most got to 250k miles.

forgotmyname

Similar to above I buy my cars around 5 years old with full dealer service history with approx 125k miles on the clock.

I would keep them for around 5 years adding 20k to 50k and that works for me.  Due to the ongoing situation the
mileage on my current car will likely be at the lower end of that mileage.

Sold one with 175k and the next owner added 60k in 2 years. They sold it and it appears to have fallen off the system
at that point. Not SORN or scrapped but not taxed either.

JustAnotherSaver

Bigwheels1111 said:

A diesel poor starting in the cold. I’ve only had diesels for the last 30 years.
Go down the list.
Slow turning over, battery.
Turning over and struggling to start glow plugs.
Never had an injector fail, in over a million miles of driving diesels.
All the diesels I’ve owned had 100k miles on them when I got them.
Most got to 250k miles.

Which is great and all but I never mentioned slow turning over or struggling to start. 

I mentioned starting perfectly fine but once it did it ran like a bag of poop for 10 seconds or so and then became fine. 

Which is a scenario you didn't diagnose  

JustAnotherSaver

getmore4less said:

You open the bonnet and find which battery is on the car.

Information usually on the top.
Take a photo of everything you can see so you have every number on the top sides and don't need to go back outside to check when you find where the code is.

Then Google that battery manufacturers date coding.

Some are stickers some are stamped into the case top or side.
Some are hidden in a code stamped on the case

If lucky it will be on the top where you can see it.
............
Short run to gym cold and probably low revs most of the time might not top up the draw from first start.

Well it's a Yuasa battery and from Googling Yuasa don't like to disclose how they code their battery, so I've had to send an email with photo.

Says KT3K22 next to the sight glass on there, whatever that means.

With the label on the side maxing out at 2015 I'm going to hazard a guess, and that's all it is, is that this is 6 years old at its youngest.

Assuming of course that the labelling is all correct.

JustAnotherSaver

November 2013 is the answer.