datsundrew
A2OC Donor
I thought I’d write something up on here after my latest issue on Chad, my A2.
So……go back 2 weeks and I was 400miles away from home doing a bathroom for a friend, his house has a sloped driveway, after pulling off the driveway, it stalled, I restarted and it was ok. This happened a couple of times, so I made a continuous effort to give it more revs, which seemed to work (bad driving skills!!)
The day I left after 3 weeks, fully loaded with tools and kit, it stalled several time in a row, and it was then I realised it wasn’t stalling at all but the power to the ignition was cutting out. The ignition would switch on , but at at the point just before the starter position on the key the power would shut off!
Lots of fiddling and got it started and headed home the 400 miles, driving as far as I could on the fuel I had and the capacity of my bladder!!
I got as far a Gloucester services, stopped for a break and prepared myself for a non start and a wait for breakdown recovery, got in the car and it started no problem, then to get fuel and another start, all good.
Once home, I ordered a new switch and didn’t use the car for the week, the switch arrived, but I needed the car yesterday, pulled off the drive and it died, and this time no fiddling would get it going…….lucky or what!?
I set about pulling the wheel off, the plastic around the column to get to the switch, with the bits removed which is fairly easy, I could see the switch at the back of the ignition lock but couldn’t fig out how to remove it….
So……go back 2 weeks and I was 400miles away from home doing a bathroom for a friend, his house has a sloped driveway, after pulling off the driveway, it stalled, I restarted and it was ok. This happened a couple of times, so I made a continuous effort to give it more revs, which seemed to work (bad driving skills!!)
The day I left after 3 weeks, fully loaded with tools and kit, it stalled several time in a row, and it was then I realised it wasn’t stalling at all but the power to the ignition was cutting out. The ignition would switch on , but at at the point just before the starter position on the key the power would shut off!
Lots of fiddling and got it started and headed home the 400 miles, driving as far as I could on the fuel I had and the capacity of my bladder!!
I got as far a Gloucester services, stopped for a break and prepared myself for a non start and a wait for breakdown recovery, got in the car and it started no problem, then to get fuel and another start, all good.
Once home, I ordered a new switch and didn’t use the car for the week, the switch arrived, but I needed the car yesterday, pulled off the drive and it died, and this time no fiddling would get it going…….lucky or what!?
I set about pulling the wheel off, the plastic around the column to get to the switch, with the bits removed which is fairly easy, I could see the switch at the back of the ignition lock but couldn’t fig out how to remove it….