Hey

My starter is gonna die soon.. and ford just quoted me a price of £310 for a RST starter.
Someone told me that the rst uses a speciel one that pulls 1,44kw instead of the 0,9 the normal ones use?

Or... a more simpel question. If you have changed yours, did you just buy a normal one? or did they say it was speciel?

 

Iv fitted xr3i ones from LSUK and there only about £45 exchange.



John.

 

Ok.

But isn't there any real difference?

When we removed it a long time ago, a asbest? heat shield fell off.. guess that was protecting the starter?
Anyone bumped into such a one?

 

I going to get one from a 1.8 diesel for mine they meant to fit straight on, be slightly thinner and more powerful!

 

[quote="CasperR"]Hey

My starter is gonna die soon.. and ford just quoted me a price of £310 for a RST starter.


THEIR only £130 from Ford over here so someone trying to pull your pants down fuck that send the money over and get one sent back to you for alot less than WHAT you've been quoted

 

How much!!!

I replaced the starter on my S2 the other week, got a starter from Ford for £63.19 inc vat (+ £41.13 surcharge which you get back).

See - https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...=starter+motor

 

got mine on exchange from andrew page's. £45, proper bosch recon aswell.

 

Thnx for all the replys

Gonna go to a another ford dealer and give them the 2 numbers from Moonie's post and hear what they want for it.

 

i hope you are joking at £310
You will be able to get a re-con one for arround £45 (exchange)
The head shield thing is pretty vital if you want it to last any time.. (although it prob be ok an a standard car) they are arround £40 from ford

 

I'm not joking

An exchange one... hmm well ford quoted me £135 for an exchange today.. and that was from another dealer. Still think that its quite expensive or am I beeing picky

 

£135 is STUPIDLY expensive for a starter motor. cant you just go to a motorfactors who sell bosch stuff and buy a re-con one from there.. or go the the scrap yard and pull the starter motor off a 1.8 diesel?

 

Got one off a normal 1,6 engine.. works just fine and cost me £30..

The heat shield is arriving today

Gonna get a price on a re-con and then see what to do.. although original ford parts are nice I don't wanna pay those wicked prices

 

i have just paid £50 from my local partco store