W203 Starter Motor - It's deid

[Guzzimental]

Well continuing the saga in not necessarily the right temporal order the car broke down 30 miles from home, on top of a multistory car park, at night and in the freezing cold. The first fix was a new battery as the old one, whilst probably OK, was such a cheap POS it deserved to be changed anyway. Fuses checked then when that didn't work I put 12v on the violet starter cable to direct wire it, still to no avail and so a call to the RAC to get the intransigent vehicle back home.

After removing the old starter, a job which is not actually that difficult just really awkward, with the aid of 'tinternet instructions and situational improvising, I thought I might get away with just a rebuild....noooo not a chance. How this damn thing ever worked recently is amazing, I have now added the rotor to my shelf of shame.

New one should arrive tomorrow, in time for my back to recover to wreck it again.

 

[toteimerced]

Oh well, at least you sussed the problem bud.

 

[Guzzimental]

Just a short update that it took much longer than the expected day to arrive but finally the new starter motor was fitted and all is well again. Well it starts anyway. As a side note for DIYers it is MUCH easier to work on with the front on ramps rather than jacking up one side, especially for folk that are not as slim as they thought. Though the multiple layers of clothing being worn due to it being feckin freezing did not help.


Shiny new starter motor.

 

[ernie]

Just a short update that it took much longer than the expected day to arrive but finally the new starter motor was fitted and all is well again. Well it starts anyway. As a side note for DIYers it is MUCH easier to work on with the front on ramps rather than jacking up one side, especially for folk that are not as slim as they thought. Though the multiple layers of clothing being worn due to it being feckin freezing did not help.


Shiny new starter motor.

Glad you have it fixed now. Not too many members here that can boast of a current or historical connection with good old Airdrie!

I was brought up in the tenaments in Cairnhill Road, till we moved to Grangemouth for my work in 1960. Remember sledging down Bellsdyke Road trying to avoid the traffic (such as it was then) on the main road. Also the roasting hot summers. Happy days indeed!

Ernie

 

[Guzzimental]

Cheers Ernie,

I moved out here from Glasgow in '99 as my now wife is from Coatbridge. No tenements left on Cairnhill Road but funnily enough it's in Cairnhill I stay, on the way to Calderbank!

William

 

[wu56Shoozz]

Just up the road from me - in Carnbroe!

 

[Guzzimental]

Just up the road from me - in Carnbroe!

I feel a Scottish clique coming on

 

[ernie]

We used to collect rose hips in the autumn for the 'The White House' on Cairnhill Road and got paid by the pound. If I remember correctly, it belonged to a local contractor, but they always wondered why our bags, which they supplied, were heavier than anybody else's......! Playing these pranks run the risk of having a 'meeting' with the local bobbie, OLd McConachie, who wasn't afraid to use his boot up your back-side.
Then there were the various mineshafts, one between Gartlea and the Calderbank Road, was called 'The Target', I think that is now drained, but there was another just off the road down to Carnbroe (the Faskine Brae?) where a couple of kids sadly lost their lives playing on a makeshift raft.

Many books could be written!

Ernie