jeevanjohnmenon
Member
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!
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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