I have a 2.5 SE X-Trail 2004 with 110 000 kms on the clock.
Recently I experienced the same problem which I quote from the forum by nosrac:-
"The X-Trail made an awful noise in attempt, but failed to the start the engine. Weird, but no panic, try again. SAME thing, it sounded like a 10 years old car which can not start because of whatever reason. It just happens that my neighbor walked my car, and mentioned to me that as it was trying to start the engine, there was a cloud of dark smoke came out from the exhaust. Sure enough, after 15 minutes of failing to start to car, I gave up, cancelled the tee off (with no refund). I walked back out, gave it one last trail before I call someone to tow it. Surely, with a great deal of difficulty, it started. It struggle at 200-300 rpms for about 5 seconds and it finally fired up."
Similar startup has now occurred twice in the last two weeks and this makes the car untrustworthy. This happened once when engine cold and once when warm. My gut feel is that there is a sensor which is responsible for the starting mixture and this thing gets stuck or something. If it would be known how this works - it could be replaced before total failure. And because it is an intermittent fault it is hard to pinpoint by the dealer. Help anybody?
Recently I experienced the same problem which I quote from the forum by nosrac:-
"The X-Trail made an awful noise in attempt, but failed to the start the engine. Weird, but no panic, try again. SAME thing, it sounded like a 10 years old car which can not start because of whatever reason. It just happens that my neighbor walked my car, and mentioned to me that as it was trying to start the engine, there was a cloud of dark smoke came out from the exhaust. Sure enough, after 15 minutes of failing to start to car, I gave up, cancelled the tee off (with no refund). I walked back out, gave it one last trail before I call someone to tow it. Surely, with a great deal of difficulty, it started. It struggle at 200-300 rpms for about 5 seconds and it finally fired up."
Similar startup has now occurred twice in the last two weeks and this makes the car untrustworthy. This happened once when engine cold and once when warm. My gut feel is that there is a sensor which is responsible for the starting mixture and this thing gets stuck or something. If it would be known how this works - it could be replaced before total failure. And because it is an intermittent fault it is hard to pinpoint by the dealer. Help anybody?