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If you look at the connections on the starter motor there will be a thick wire (battery feed) and a thin wire (ignition feed) going to the starter motor, you will need to put a test probe on to the thin wire to see if there is power when the key is turned, which I would be surprised if there was in your case!
The next thing to find is the starter relay or Ignition interlock relay, when the key is turned this should energize (click), If it does then that is most likely the thing at fault. While it should click when the key is turned, it should also send +12 v to the starter motor.
If it doesn't click, first try putting the car into N (neutral) and see if the starter relay clicks, in fact I would try that first before looking at anything else, it could be a dodgy inhibitor switch on the gearbox.
If you've tried all that, and the relay still isn't clicking, the most likely cause will be the immobiliser, at that point I would hand it over to a professional. The only thing that I can't tell you is where the Ignition interlock relay is  I can't find it on those new fangled wiring diagrams, wot was wrong with the old underground maps, they were sooo much easier to read. Anyway I am lead to believe that it is behind the battery, but I would wait for some to spill the beans, as I would have thought that the ECU box would be a more logical place to hide it, good luck bud  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!
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9th Aug 2015 8:31am
