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Offline Deano2711

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #30 on: 06 October 2010, 20:05 »
Deano, thanks for the ebay link to the 16v being broken. Contacted seller and game me a reasonable £30 price so I'm going ahead with it :afro:

Glad you got sorted Mate....no doubt you will help me in the future....that's why I love this forum  :wink:

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #31 on: 06 October 2010, 20:33 »
Starter motor is now officially fcuked. Won't turn over. Turn the key and I get about half a crank followed by some strange sounds as if a tap was leaking and crackling, headlights dim so 12v is getting there but the coil inside is just destroyed I imagine. New starter is needed ASAP! Hopefully ebay fella will send it soon.

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #32 on: 06 October 2010, 20:33 »
Deano, thanks for the ebay link to the 16v being broken. Contacted seller and game me a reasonable £30 price so I'm going ahead with it :afro:

Glad you got sorted Mate....no doubt you will help me in the future....that's why I love this forum  :wink:

And of course mate, where I can help I will do  :smiley:

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #33 on: 06 October 2010, 22:25 »
New starter should be here Friday, battery tomorrow. So hopefully by this weekend car is running well again!

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #34 on: 06 October 2010, 22:34 »
New starter should be here Friday, battery tomorrow. So hopefully by this weekend car is running well again!

Jinx yourself much!

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #35 on: 06 October 2010, 22:41 »
New starter should be here Friday, battery tomorrow. So hopefully by this weekend car is running well again!

Jinx yourself much!
:grin: :grin: :grin: We will see, I hope not cos any more bad luck and I think I'll go dig a hole and live in it. Bad things come in three though, first bad coil then bad battery then starter motor. Although I received news today that my auntie has breast cancer for a second time...Not good.

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #36 on: 06 October 2010, 22:48 »
New starter should be here Friday, battery tomorrow. So hopefully by this weekend car is running well again!

Jinx yourself much!
:grin: :grin: :grin: We will see, I hope not cos any more bad luck and I think I'll go dig a hole and live in it. Bad things come in three though, first bad coil then bad battery then starter motor. Although I received news today that my auntie has breast cancer for a second time...Not good.

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Sorry to hear that mate. My mums got it at the moment, know what it's like.

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #37 on: 06 October 2010, 22:50 »
Yeah it's a painful experience watching someone you love suffer mate, stick by her and give her support as she will need it. At the end of the day any of us could go at any moment, do we really want to leave with regrets and emptiness?

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #38 on: 07 October 2010, 12:17 »
My sympathies and best wishes to you both. I watched my Mom suffer from Leaukemia when I was a kid. She lasted two years and died when I was 10 then when I was 20 I was with my Dad as he died at the hands of Thrombosis. Neither was a pleasant experience so I know what you're going through Chaps. Keep your chins up  :wink:

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Re: refurbing starter motor
« Reply #39 on: 07 October 2010, 14:15 »
Wow Deano really sorry to hear about that, it must have been horrific  :sad: I've not lost anyone close to me since I was about 5, my granddad died of a brain tumour but at the age of 5 you don't really take in what's happening and you don't realize the consequences. For now most of the older members of my family are relatively healthy but showing signs of worse to come. My other granddad is has arthritis, my granddma's spine looks like a dyno charge from the curve in it, resulting in huge pain and sometimes can't walk, yet she still goes gym everyday of the week and walks about 3 miles every morning  :shocked: My other granddma however, well, she's rich, she's around 70, and she goes to my uncle's nightclubs on a weekly basis with all her "rich&young" friends  :grin: :grin: