Lumpy start & turnover on 2007 A3 2.0ltr tdi dsg sportback s-line

Suggest you have the car scanned and see what that brings up. Your glow plugs timing is about right, and I don't think that this changes much over their lifetime. Another thing to think about is the battery (4 years old?) and starter motor. Easy to try a known good battery, but the starter is more difficult. Have heard on this site that A3 starter motors can give this kind of trouble. Remember with a diesel there is a high compression to overcome, and they do need a big kick to fire first time. Good luck.

Ok just to clarify before giving any info, so are you saying its the starting part that is a little dodgy or is it immediately after its already started that it is a little ropey?

leecool said:

Hi Folks, been meaning to ask......

I recently got a 2007 A3 sportback s-line dsg , when starting the engine sorta judders a little & I have to throttle a little too. Dont get me wrong, the car's running flawlessly, it's just that judder & extra kick to start it thats buggin me . My glow plugs go out in bout 2-3 seconds, is that normal weatha theyre good or bad?(neva had audi b4) or is it the more fkd they get the longer they take to heat up like most diesels? Thats what I thought anyway.
I mean it never fails to start, but its that slight reluctency is eating at me.
Does anyone else suffer this?? It doesnt seem like a fault & its hard to try & explain this without it sounding bad if you know what I mean? Car's flying in all other aspect!
Any sorta ideas welcome!
cheers guys.

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I had this problem about 3 months ago and thought nothing of it as it came and went and nothing had been flagged up at the previous service. Then just over a week ago I had a problem (see thread: A Happy Ending) and the upshot was one of the Injectors had failed. A linked reply flagged up that a lot of people had issues with '07 plate DSG models (as mine is). I would suggest looking at the thread (if I can find the link I will) and then getting someone to take a look at the injectors - if they are fine, great, if not you may just save yourself a lot of hassle (and possibly cost!). After I had problems with the start, as you are mentioning, the next thing that happened (although it is only with hindsight that I noticed it) was that the car stuttered a little under hard acceleration and wasn't as smooth as it should be. Yours sounds as if it doesn't have this problem, yet! Hope you get to the bottom of it.

I have this problem too

Don't have a clue what it is but I have a 1.9tdi 06 plate BKC. When the car is cold it starts straight away however when it is hot and I start the car up its like I have to twist my key and it's not as quick and has a massive judder when it fires up.

I've had a remap and hot start fix but hasn't cured anything. Also no codes apart from one glow plug out. Which is weird because I had all glow plugs changed but glow plug 2 still said its out.