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  • Help please : Presumably starter motor trouble with 02 focus 1.8tddi
  • kaiser
    Free Member

    I have the above car in estate form and intermittently experience problems starting (like today !)
    basically the battery is fine but every so often when I start the car the engine turns over really sluggishly just like you would experience with a flat battery and struggles to fire.makes no odds whether hot or cold.
    presumably this initially points to a dodgy starter motor ?
    the car has done 80K and it's never been changed.
    your advice would be much appreciated.
    btw ..the only thing I've attempted to do is to tighten the connections that I can reach from above in case of a poor connection, but the trouble keeps returning.
    what would you do ???
    thanks in advance
    Bill

    grim168
    Free Member

    I have the same car and had the same symptoms. I found it was the starter on mine after replacing the battery. Mine had done 130000 at that point.

    falkirk-mark
    Full Member

    Probably dropped a brush, as a quick fix put the car into gear and move it (this moves the starter and should free it) then it should turn over as normal.

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