Starter Motor Help please!

jeevanjohnmenon

jeevanjohnmenon

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Hey everyone, need help urgently for my 1.4 Petrol.

I bought my A2 last week and the starter motor had an odd whirring noise when it cranked to start. The then owner did acknowledge it was a problem and needed to be changed out and even provided a spare starter motor from I’m not sure where. But it did seem aged and I failed to confirm it worked.

Since it was iffy when starting in my first week of ownership, I thought to get a mobile mechanic to swap them out and paid a bomb in labour to this fella. Unfortunately, when the spare went in, it did not work at all. So after a few hours, I go to collect a car that wouldn’t start at alll! 😭

To make things worse, the same mechanic offered to put the initial starter motor in ( since we had given up by this point to figure out what was wrong with the spare ) and after another 3 hours, the car won’t start with its original starter motor.

So both starter motors won’t work. I’m assuming the mechanic knows what he is doing and is doing the necessary when installing a starter motor. He insists that the initially working starter motor has gone kaput when it was taken out and the replacement the previous owner provided was a dead unit.

I need my car for work daily and I have no clue what to do other than to buy a new starter motor online, wait for it to arrive and pass it to the mechanic. He has been super kind trying to help solve this, but it’s a real pity as the car was actually fine if I hadn’t decided to get him to swap the starter motors.

If anyone is in east London, or knows someone I can trust fully to solve this, or if you have a starter motor that actually works, do let me know? The car only starts when push started and that’s a right nightmare.

Looking for any tips/ tricks/ anything this mechanic might’ve missed during installation. Thanks all! 🙏🏼😭
 
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Hi. I have a 1.4 petrol that has had a new alternator and starter motor put in last week. The previous starter was ok 99 times out of 100, but I thought I would get it changed while the guys were in the engine bay anyway. If you want, I could post the old down to you. It still works fine 99% of the time, just overruns occasionally. I bought a new one from AUTODOC which went in fine. Give me a DM if you want the old one… sorry to hear of your troubles
 
Oh dear
I fully sympathise, it’s a pig of a job on the 1.4 petrol (or was for a muppet like me). I’d be surprised if the original has gone phut just be removing it. It should be possible to test this motor off the car if your mechanic is up for it. Should also be possible to double check it has been wired up properly. You can confirm this visually, there are photos in this recent article, very easy to forget to connect the earth strap for example

Removing the starter motor on an Audi A2 1.4 AUA

This article covers the removal of the starter motor from the A2 1.4 AUA petrol and is probably relevant for the later BBY as well
www.a2oc.net www.a2oc.net
 
LRT00220 was the past number I bought. AUTODOC list ones for ac and ones for cara without air conditioning. Mine has ac so the part number above is for that
 
birtyA2 said:
Oh dear
I fully sympathise, it’s a pig of a job on the 1.4 petrol (or was for a muppet like me). I’d be surprised if the original has gone phut just be removing it. It should be possible to test this motor off the car if your mechanic is up for it. Should also be possible to double check it has been wired up properly. You can confirm this visually, there are photos in this recent article, very easy to forget to connect the earth strap for example

Removing the starter motor on an Audi A2 1.4 AUA

This article covers the removal of the starter motor from the A2 1.4 AUA petrol and is probably relevant for the later BBY as well
www.a2oc.net www.a2oc.net
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Yea I’ve sent this to the mechanic and he swears he has checked and double checked everything.

Could a starter motor just give out cos it was taken out? Photos attached of the originally working starter-
 

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To me this crying out earthing. Too dark now to clean the engine earth point but you could try using a hefty jump start lead from any point on the engine to any sold body point, just make sure they have good contact.

Andy
 
jeevanjohnmenon said:
Yea I’ve sent this to the mechanic and he swears he has checked and double checked everything.

Could a starter motor just give out cos it was taken out? Photos attached of the originally working starter-
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Well I guess you can never say never, but I wouldn’t have thought so; there may be some more experienced members that that may post on this thread who might be able to advise but I’m struggling to think what the failure mechanism might be
 
The solenoid is looking pretty rusty. Recently another member found that the braided wire connection between the solenoid and starter body had corroded and failed. This needs to be checked carefully and replaced if it has failed. The starter can be easily checked off the car thus also by passing the cars electrical circuit. Another area to check is the studs for the terminals have not been sheared off due to over tightening the leads.
 
Did your mechanic bench test either starter if not tbh he's not very good. Did he try adding a chassis to engine earth if he didn't he's pretty damm useless!
 
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