1,9 TD won’t start

Oscarklemo · 2025-10-21 19:47:53

My spare car won’t start. Thought it was the battery as when I tried to start all I could hear were some clicking noises from the engine bay but the starter wouldn’t crank.

Hooked up a starter pack to the battery, same sound, no cranking.

Had problems with the starter pack before so I charged the battery for 10h and tried again, no cranking, just clicking.

Am I right to believe that my starter motor i bad?

I’ll check the fuses first, but other than that I’m clueless.

Solenoid, is that the same as start relay? If so, is it situated in the fuse box behind the battery? Could dona swap with my working van.

Oscarklemo · 2025-10-21 22:45:50

Fuse location?

kenbw2 · 2025-10-22 00:10:03

Agreed it could be the fuses, but you could confirm it by checking the voltage at the starter motor when you're turning the key?

JohnDragonMan · 2025-11-07 03:37:19

i would suspect the starter. if you are hearing it click it will be the bendex of the starter slamming the gear into the flywheel like it should but the brushes on the starter motor its self will have locked up. dont hit the starter. theres a right and wrong way to "convince" a starter motor to start working again and smashing the internal magnets is not one of them! if you think to hell with it and want to try anyway, hit the starter on the outer edge near the back of the starter as that is where the brushes will be. it may be enough to work them free. starters are not hard to rebuild if you want to have a go at it yourself. as i said its usually the brushes that have locked up and just need a spray with wd-40 and working back and forth. just be gentle with them the brushes are made out of a material that breaks up very easy a bit like an oxo cube. well a bit tougher but not by much.

try the light tap on the very end (where the wire off the back of the solenoid goes into the starter) and see if that gets things moving.

these engines will run without the ECU plugged in, all be it rough so the starting wont have anything to do with the ecu. that only handles the running.

Gregor887 · 2025-11-07 19:01:54

21 for repair wink

Oscarklemo · 2025-11-13 21:58:20

Changed battery and voila, it started.

Took her to the repair shop to have some other things fixed and when they tried to start it taking it out of the garage, it wouldn't start again. Starter seems to work just fine when it works, but somehow either something is draining the battery or the engine is not grounded enough.

I took the battery to ground cable off and brushed everything at the same time I changed the battery, so I can't say if it was the battery or the grounding.

But as it came back afterwards, it probably wasn't any of them.

The mechanics gonna take a look at it.

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#1 2025-10-21 19:47:53

1,9 TD won’t start

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