My starter motor is fubar. sounds like its stuck. now i know you can hit them or bridge the terminals. any body explain how to do this, as one terminal is open but the other has a rubber plug on it.
need to get it started in morning so it can go to garage to have a new starter fitted

cheers

 

Basically on the starter u have the thick wire from the battery bolted on, and the solenoid wire which pushes on.

U have to remove the solenoid wire and bridge something like a screwdriver across the 2 terminals VERY CAREFULLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (i cannot stress that enough)

If your starter is knackered this won't make it work though

 

ok. cheers. so any ideas how i can start the car to get it too the garage?

 

Good old traditional methods..................

Get pushin BOYYYY

 

lol. tried that with the mrs pushing but couldnt get any speed and it didnt wanna fire

 

Right well first things first u wana be sortin the mrs out before the car

 

lol.
dont want a muscle bound weight lifter as a bird though. and she couldnt get the hang of trying to bump it while i was pushing...lol

 

No i meant get rid and find another bird PMSL

I thought u said she was pushing?

 

thats why she was pushing cos she couldnt drive...lol

 

PMSL

I can just imagine now if i had of asked my ex to do that, i can't even type on here what she would of said

 

lol mate.

do ya know roughly ow much a new/recon starter is?

 

Not off the top of my head, i resent buying parts like that new. The starter i have on my RS is actually off a MK5 escort i had a few years ago, 1.4 and i paid £25 for it with 9 months ticket

They're all pretty much the same, may save a few pennies buying a second hand one....

 

halfords will do you a new one for 85,

 

Fuck me, you've dissapeared for weeks on end AND you're being serious yet helpful??

WHATS THE CRACK with that

 

lady on ebay sells them for £25, ive taken to buying them in bulk

fit it ur self, onlt 3 bolts lol

ive got extremly efficient at doing them, takes about 15 mins not

my car eats them lol

 

An RS shouldn't munch up starters that quick, no offence but have you thought of trying a slightly more expensive new starter, a new starter for 25 notes to me = a piece of shit

My starter on mine came off my MK5 1.4 CVH Escort which had over 100,000 miles on it, the original Ford one and its still going strong on my RS.....