Mine is the 3rd RS I have had that does not like to turn over when hot.
I assume its to do with the starter motor.
Any one else suffer from this and is there a remedy?

 

heat wrap round the starter mate, alot of em to it

seems to help doing that though

 

Not if you fit the heatsheild Ford make to overcome this problem

 

Cheers mate. May get some for the Turbo too. Tried cleaning up Earths bla bla bla and on this one Im running a Transit Battery.

 

Yep. Had this problem but put a heat shield on. Genuine Ford part, finis code 1654781.

Hope this helps.

 

They on all RS's??? Never seen one.

 

there is one for the starter motor and one for the turbo

 

Wrap the downpipe on the exhaust like mine, don't need the heat shield anymore

 

I have not seen the shield on 3 of my cars. Hence why I did not know about them. Would like to get the issue sorted though.

 

diesal starter motor i heard is a good replacement if a new on needed!

 

lee it never had any problems starting when i had it

 

How would you know. It was off the road for 4 years.

 

but still on the odd occation we did start it it had no problems and what you moaning for thats now the reason you got a a low mileage erst

 

Not moaning. I was taking the pi55.
Gonna ring around tomorrow about this bloody engine.

 

hit it with a hammer

 

The car, trust me my 1/2 inch breaker bar has nearly sone some serious damage.
I think a heat shield will do the job just need to locate one.
Any one got a pic of one I will try and make one if not..

 

lee is starter moter already has a heat sheild on it some exhaust rap is a good idea !! i wanna get hold of some too

 

i had this problem years ago, i put a brand new ford, (std) starter on my car, drove 110 miles, stopped, it was dead,

left it a while,it started , as soon as i got home, i went to ford, and got a starter motor for a desiel , and its been 100% good, for a few years now, and it was a straight swap, as i moaned a bit .




knowing my luck, you will see a post tomorrow, " my car wont start" lol

the heatwrap sounds like a good idea though ,




and the hammer jim,

 

Yep had this prob with all CVH engined Fords I've owned

My starter likes sapping all the power off my battery at the moment which is a pain in the arse

The early Zetec starters fit CVH engines I think, anyone confirm? Might go looking in the scrappy Tuesday

How much is the genuine Ford heat shield?

 

the way forwards is the ford heat sheild had this prob on one car fitted that heat sheild never had it since plus looks nice dont rap it never looks good plus timely and messey job when you can just clip the sheild on the oil return pipe trust me never again will you look like a plank out the clubs waiting for it to cool down

 

How u know I had that problem??

 

PMSL how true

 

yep here here common prob it seems

 

wes, i use a transit battery now, after i had probs with my std one, Ł70 approx from ford, but works a treat.even though i dont have any sterio system, not even a head unit, but the std battery still was a coont.




cheers Dave

 

i've been told to use an xr2i starter motor as these are shorter (and sit further away from the exhaust, obviously) but the heatwrap is also a good idea!

 

Seerhunter, my battery is a massive great thing, need it to drive the stereo! Fitting a power cap this weekend so hopefully that will stop all the power being drained by the 1100w amp and the starter when it sticks....