jowl

My My97 sometimes refuse to start....I justr get a click. It's been hapening for a couple of weeks now but i wanted to make sure it wasn;t me doing something wrong with alarm etc.

A mate reckons it could be starter motor and car just needs 'rocking' to start. Sure enough, the twice I've rocked it, it started.

Could these be a faulty starter motor. I'll be back to dealer with it next week me thinks. Also getting a strange sound on boot at around 4k revs.

Oh and by the way, I'm a complete novice when it comes to mechanics / how car works!

pugoetru

my starter was dodgy and if you kept turning the key it eventually went i eventually got fed up with everyone looking at me and changed it.......








i am a mechanic you see

dij

sounds like a starter problem to me.

if you need one,pm me.
(once you find someone to change it for you)

jowl

Cheers....but it should be covered under warranty yeah? Going to ring the dealer later / tomorrow.

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

Dij supplied my starter and its bang on, cheers mate

have you checked the earth connection?
rocking it would seem only to assist in making that was once loose now connect doesnt it?

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

and sound at 4k revs?
could be a case for getting a knocklink/lambdalink to me, and quickly

jowl

Yeah....you could be right....how much do you think for knocklink/lambdalink? and fitting ?

The sound is wierd...I'm not sure how to describe it. The closest I can come up with...and I'm gonna regret saying this is like.....a.......'moo-ing'

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

new from Bob Rawle (brdevelopments) would be favourite, I think lambdalink is about £85 and the knocklink is very well priced too, sometimes there is a group buy on here and that can bring KL cost down to about £130 IIRC.
second hand is anyones guess, there is an afr going for £400 that I know of (look under my last post in wanted) and KL's can get down to about £90 if they are available.
its £200 odd well spent in my eyes, safety first and all that.