:?: My '98 Prado 95 with 1KZ-TE stats brilliantly... but only some time between the 5th and 15th time I turn the key. Can anybody give me a hint as to how to solve this?
- When turning the key, it lights the glowplug symbol in the dash, you can hear it click (bendix? starter relay?) and as soon as it should start rotating it stops doing anything, symbol switches off etc.
- When I return the key to 'off' and back to 'start' it will try again over and over, so it is not the immobiliser.
- When it does start (it always does) it does so immediately, within two rotations so it's not the battery, starter motor or glow plugs.
- it started doing so one or two weeks after I removed some poorly installed custom wiring. I now wish I had not, but as they say, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I would take it to the Toyota guys immediately if I did not want to know how it works. On the other hand, I'm not going to install a D-4D just to know how it works . Any ideas?
- When turning the key, it lights the glowplug symbol in the dash, you can hear it click (bendix? starter relay?) and as soon as it should start rotating it stops doing anything, symbol switches off etc.
- When I return the key to 'off' and back to 'start' it will try again over and over, so it is not the immobiliser.
- When it does start (it always does) it does so immediately, within two rotations so it's not the battery, starter motor or glow plugs.
- it started doing so one or two weeks after I removed some poorly installed custom wiring. I now wish I had not, but as they say, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I would take it to the Toyota guys immediately if I did not want to know how it works. On the other hand, I'm not going to install a D-4D just to know how it works . Any ideas?
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