Starter Motor Problems

Car Owner Starter Motor Problems
Problems starting

had a new fuel pump 18 month ago, always problems starting in cold weather recently had new heater plugs,new battery and starter motor recent service and filters etc still problems starting its done 77k with fsh in good nick but under the b...

1999 Vauxhall Frontera 2.2 diesel ltd lwb
Posted: Dec 26, 2010
Engine management

Engine will not start and can display any of the following messages: - Key not detected; Immobiliser active; front sensors inoperative; hill start malfunction. Thereafter engine will turn over but not fire, eventually flattening battery.O...

2007 Ford Mondeo 2.0 tdi Titanium X
Posted: Dec 21, 2010
Car wont start / engine wont turn over

My ford focus zetec 1.6 wouldnt start, engine wouldnt even turn over, central locking on key wouldnt unlock door, so had to unlock manually and when in the car the other doors wouldnt unlock either. Car started with a jump from another car ...

2003 Ford Focus 1.6
Posted: Dec 19, 2010
Glow plug pre-heat + sticking/stalling starter motor

This is my first diesel engined car so i am feeling my way a bit. During the current cold weather i have had difficulty getting the engine to fire up first thing in the morning partly due to the starter motor stalling for 2/3 seconds at a ...

2004 Volkswagen Polo 1.9 sdi manual
Posted: Dec 14, 2010
Wont start

I have owned my punto for 2 and a half years. It was fine up until July 2010 and then it wouldn't start every now and again. Then 2 weeks ago it wouldnt start at all. When I turn the key it just makes a clicking noise. I took it in to my lo...

2008 Fiat Punto manual grande
Posted: Dec 8, 2010
Central locking issue

hello can someone help me regards to my problem. it firstly started from i replaced an new starter motor and after i came home and notice that my alarm wasnt allowing the central locking to either go up or down which meant that the light wi...

2001 Vauxhall Zafira 2.0 dti comfort manual
Posted: Dec 7, 2010
Car not starting

For the last six months we have been having intermitten anti-pollution fault, car has been fine for nearly 3 weeks(that's good), but then my husband went to start the car up on saturday morning, and it started ok but after 5mins stopped and...

2006 Citroen C8 2.2 exclusive
Posted: Nov 29, 2010
Starter motor will not turn engine

The starter motor will not turn the engine when starting. The battery has been tested & is fully charged although the symptoms are those of a flat battery i.e. the engine does turn for perhaps half a revolution before stopping.

2001 Volkswagen Polo
Posted: Nov 18, 2010
Wont start

car does not start unless i get a jump start. I have just fitted a new battery and i still have the same problem i need to get jump to start the car

2003 Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 sxi
Posted: Nov 16, 2010
CAR WONT START

Hello, I hope someone can help me, I have suddenly been having problems with starting my car up. I took it to the garage, they replaced the battery, it was ok for a day then wouldn't start again, took it back to the garage and they gave me ...

2001 Renault Clio MANUAL
Posted: Nov 15, 2010
Clutch

flywheel stuck on very tight any suggestions on how to get it off

1982 Austin Seven (Mini) 850
Posted: Nov 14, 2010
Won't start, horrible noises

VW Polo won't start, engine making lots of horrible noises when I try, tryed bump starting it, topped up oil, coolant, battery seems ok, has over 170000 miles on it, has had a few problems starting before but normally starts 2nd time and ne...

2000 Volkswagen Polo 1.0 petrol
Posted: Nov 13, 2010
Cutting out

Hi My beautiful BMW is sick and NO one can fix it -so they tell me - AA could not find fault, garage could not find fault,apparantly the fault does not show on diagnostics machine. The problem: Always starts first time hot or cold. Runs li...

BMW 3 Series 318 I SE
Posted: Nov 12, 2010
Starter Motor

Hi... When the car has stood for a day or when it has got very cold the starter motor makes a light grinding noise when it dis-engages after the car has started. It has only started making this noise since the car had been serviced. Is t...

2006 Nissan Note 1.4 sve
Posted: Nov 7, 2010
Clutch

having great difficulty getting flywheel off.everything off have decent puller on but wont budge,had them tight in past but not this tight ,any suggestions please.

1973 Austin Seven (Mini) 850
Posted: Nov 4, 2010