Hello,
With the winter drawing in my mrs' Punto has been struggling to start. Its slow to turn over and now it won't at all. I've been out this morning, bought a new battery and the fella put a multi-meter on it and it showed 12v. Still sounds sluggish to turn over, so i recharged the battery and soaked it with easy start, it got a bit excited but just gave up.
The cars driven daily, so its not old fuel. I've had jump leads from my scoob connected to it and still even wth the new battery its not happy and still turning over slow.

Am i right in starting to suspect the starter motor could be at fault?

any advice would be a great help
Thanks

 

I've had jump leads from my scoob connected to it and still even wth the new battery its not happy and still turning over slow.
REALLY!!!!!!
HAVE YOU TRIED THE JUMP LEADS FROM ANY OTHER CAR YET?????????????????-----------------YOU DO ASK FOR IT DONT YOU!!! LOL-HE-HE
PUNTO!!!LOL---------TRY THE BATTERY OUT OF A HOUSE ALARM BOX!!12 VOLTS-

 

I know what I would do with the Punto.

 

seconded

 

Check connections particularly earth ones first are good and clean, try the lead directly on the starter, if still no joy it is starter, easy to do, but cheap enough recon Ł35/45.
If all else fails a match often works!!
tabetha

 

he might need to know where to put the match to be the most efficient in "fixing" the problem

 

what year is the punto, and how slow is the starter turning over? if the punto is a '188 type with the 1.2 8valve engine the chances are that the crank sensor has given. feel free to pm me.

 

Yeh the crank sensors always go on them. If you look on the timing belt cover you will see the connector and if you follow the wire down(on the exhaust side) you will find use sensor at the bottom held in by a 10 mm bolt.