Car wont start - no igintion just a click?!?

[Gary_B]

Woke up to go for a Maccies Breakfast this morning, went to start the car, and wasnt greated by the normal result.

Instead all I go was a click when I turned the key, which came from under the bonnet somewhere, has the starter motor gone?

Expensive to fix? or can a competent DIY do it?

Cheers

Gaz

 

[_M_A_T_T_]

sure u havnt got a flat battery and the clicking is ur starter motor

if it not ur battery hit the motor gentley 2 try and unsieze it.

 

[Gary_B]

All sorted now, nice one. The battery wasn't flat thank god. What was that all about anyway? Do Starters sieze up regularly?

 

[FiDoDiDo]

You might want to check you haven't got dead cell/s in your battery as it might happen again otherwise.

 

[Jay Payne]

put a volt meter on your battery while the engine is running. you should have 13 - 14.5 volts with lights and blower on at 2000rpm. any thing less then u have a charging fault, ive seen lots of alternator faults on these cars

 

[mattih5]

Mine did exactly the same thing a week ago and it turned out to be a loose wire connected to the battery.