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Me disco wont start!

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Yoshi:
Ok, went out to it this morning and it started, i have done nothing to it whatsoever, then when i was in morrisons same thing happened again, turned the radio off and tried starting it and it worked :-s

Now i really am confused!

landroverkeith:
just a "quirk" patch has m8  :lol:  mine has many!

suggs:
i get this with mine too, normaly after driving through deep water off road, as has been said remove the starter clean the shaft and lub it up :shock: . check all conections especialy the earth to the chassis

the soilnoid under the bonnet is i think the glow plug one, it could be the actuator in the starter thats gone, this tends to play up when the cars warm. it will start from cold fine go down the road stop for fuel and wamo the git wont start till it cools down. if its that then get a new starter.

if yours is a 200 series then its a mission to get too the starter, the 300 is easy...

Yoshi:
I dont know what it is, when it wouldnt start it was cold, also i did absolutely nothing to it when it started working again!

I have seen the location of the starter motor now and it does look like a pig to get to, so hoping it will just work from now on, if it goes again then i am going to take the starter off and just see how it goes.

Does anyone know if the wires connect to it at the front (the bit you can see) or elsewhere?  I havent even removed the heat shield yet, would this be something i would need to refit?

suggs:
the connections should be on the front pointing towards the front of the car, this fault is a pain as it just seems to be ok then it will do it again. the times i thought i had found it, it wouldnt start so changed the starter relay and it started thought i had sussed it then a few days later it played up..

do you get full dash lights when it wont start? if not then its probley the silly spade connection on the starter thats loose a very common fault.

what i did was remove the starter and clean all connection theres an earth cable going down to the chassis from the starter, un bolt it and give it a wire brush, i found the shaft and cog to be a bit rusty (surface rust) so wd40 it so its clean then i put a small amount of greese on the shaft. mines been ok for a few months now except after Biling last week were it whent through a lot of water, on the way home after a stop it played up but did start after a few attempts and been fine since.

one symptom i get from time to time is a small pause between turning the key and the starter turning over about a second but you do notice it.

the other thing i found that if it wont go then a jump start does the trick, must be the extra burst of power, one of those little jump start packs you see for sale will probley do it..

thats Landys for ya mate...

cheers

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