Have you checked the position of the air flow flap? If it's sitting too high or low it will give a hard starting fault.

Push it down gently, it should have some freeplay. While holding the air flow flap down clean the air flow meter housing near where the flap is at it's rest position.

Check that where the flap sits is where it has the least clearance between the flap and the housing. If there is a big difference between the flap rest position and where it should be resting then you'll need to adjust it.

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