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Thankfully the plugs I was replacing were steel not ceramic, just the wrong voltage. They looked like they'd been changed pretty recently and thankfully came out pretty easily. The EGR elbow not so much lol

I swapped out the 11v plugs for those same Bosch 5v plugs yesterday and glad to say its fixed the slow starting and started straight away this morning with no smoke with the temperature at 0.5°c here in Scotland. It was a pig of a job but I'm glad it's done now before winter sets in.

Different glow plug control modules on the 2.5 compared to the 2.8. The 2.8 only supplies either 7v or 5v depending if it had the recall work done or not and was never sold with 11v plugs which I think is causing my slower starting in cold temps as the previous owner has fitted the wrong plugs...

Mine has also had similar issues. I only bought it 4 weeks ago and this week have had to change the battery, alternator, glow plugs and thermostat! I'm also in the middle of changing out the leaking auto transmission cooler pipes although this was a known issue when I bought it. I do however...

The alternator and battery are out of the Jeep at the moment as im replacing both along with the glow plugs but I do know that the original glow plug control unit supplied 7v as I still have the sticker on the timing cover but some were changed to 5v during a recall when the oem ceramic plugs...

So my 2005 CRD has been taking a few seconds longer to crank over on a morning now that the night time temperatures are getting a little lower here in Scotland. Nothing really bad but 3 or 4 seconds cranking before starting with a puff of grey smoke so I decided id change the glow plugs. Removed...

I'm in the UK with a 2005 CRD and also have this same filter head. I've had a few instances of the Jeep randomly cutting out just after starting and taking a bit longer on a morning to start after been sitting overnight so suspect some air is getting in. Is the Racor filter a direct replacement...

Hi, pretty new here myself. Im in Fife Scotland with a 2005 2.8 CRD also.