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Originally Posted by Jason
How long did it take for the starting problem to get worse? Seems like that could be a glow plug problem, or maybe injectors with a crappy spray pattern or partially clogged tips. As the engine wears and compression gets lower, thats a pretty drawn out process unless you are sucking sand down the intake. Its not like your wear the rings enough each day to loose 10lbs of compression to where its not starting by the end of the week, see what I'm getting at?
It could be the rings are coaked up with soot from dirty buring, have you heard of or tried BG 109 compression restore? If you go to their website it tells all about it. Its for diesel engines only. I have used it once, and plan to use it on my D24T on the next oil change.
Jason
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've used BG products before with great results. I've only had the car since the middle of March and the starting problem got worse and worse since day 1 until the middle of May when it finally just wouldn't start at all. I talked to the mechanic again today and he was saying something about "getting explosions from the intake" every time they tried firing it up. Maybe the valves aren't sealing?