right well thats a start!, being a 1.4 is gotta be a petrol, now wether its an 8v or a 16v im not sure but it will be fuel injected either way, right, is the engine actually turning over?? these cars suffer from starter motor problems, 1st indicated by a high pitched noise as youve finished using the starter motor to fire up the engine, from that stage on they get worse and in some cases fail all together, there for the gear will not contact the flywheel and there fore not start the engine, this can be tried many times and will often start randomly but some times can take ages.
if the engine is 'turning over' then we have to look for different causes, dose the car start fine when its warm/be run??? if so this would point me to the direction of the temperature sender which tells the ecu how hot/cold the engine is and adjusts the fueling to suit (more fuel needed when engine cold) this could be a cause for poor starting when cold.
there could be other reasons also, but seen as the problem seems to be only when its cold it narrows things down abit.
if theres some one locally to you that has a laptop with 'vagcom' softeware you can plug this in and find any ecu fualt codes that are showing, that may be another way to see why you have this prob...
