Starter motor on FF finally gave up on Thursday, I'd already ordered a second hand one, it turned up and had a damaged bearing on the end behind the drive pinion, the race shield had come out and the bearing was useless, it will also let water in like this...



Decided Oh well I'll get a recon one and fit that...





Did it OK, it's awkward to do, Rave says you have to remove the exhaust manifold but managed to do it without, works great and drove home...

SWMBO came home and parked up her TT, then the problems started... it must have gone something like this...

TT to FF "What have you done today"

FF to TT "Ooooh, I had a nice shiny new starter motor, I feel like a new car now...."

TT to FF "Thats not fair, I want one...."

SWMBO goes to the gym and at 8.30pm I get a phone call.... It won't start... no crank...

FF to the rescue with tow rope in hand... towed it and dumped it outside my mates garage...

Friday morning I take her to work and pop into garage... after a quick diagnoses it's the starter motor on the TT!!!!

Spent most of the day changing it, thought the FF was bad but the TT was just daft... stick 3.2ltrs of V6 and a 6 speed DSG gearbox under the bonnet of that little thing and there is not much room for a starter... tons of bits to remove before you can even see it....

Finished at 3.20pm and then popped to pick SWMBO from work at 3.30....

Wait, there's more.....

Drove her back to the garage and sent her on her way home in her now placated TT who was as happy as Larry with it's new starter....

FF..... "Bl@@dy TT, it's not going to outdo me... I'll show them"

I jumped in the FF and drove home, less than 1/2 mile from the garage and....... alternator fails!!!>>!!

Was about 10miles home, so turned off everything I didn't need and got home on battery power....

Saturday morning and another bright and shiney part gets fitted to the FF....





Lets hope the TT doesn't get upset.....!!!!!

So three days of work and £550 lighter.....

Bl@@dy cars, I hate 'em

Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated  Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
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It's clever the iBus you know......

I recon they will become fully self aware in Q1 2015 and the TT will want to go off roading. They could run away together. That's how the Q5 was made.....

Seriously though, a bit of a pain but you shouldn't have to worry about those parts now, and that new alternator does look well.... 2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

This is all a bit anthropomorphic. Seriously, cars don't talk to each other.

....do they?

i think they do,

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Y. O. L. O.
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KurtVerbose wrote:

This is all a bit anthropomorphic. Seriously, cars don't talk to each other.

....do they?

Are you serious???

Of course they do! And they do more than that too. You know those electric elements which masquerade as seat heaters? Yeah well I'll tell you they are actually field effect scanners designed to scan the cards in your wallet, check your bank balance and then report back to the main ECU so it can induce a fault which costs roughly the same to fix as the amount of spare cash you have that month !

Bad luck fella...

brill. Thanks for brightening my afternoon up.
greg.

Car ping pong - story of my life - glad you had a happy ending, and bet you enjoyed it really (gets you out of having to do the other things SWMBO wants you to do. like go shopping etc.)  .
Experience is the only genuine knowledge, but as time passes, I have forgotten more than I can remember
Volvo V70 P2 2006 2.4 Petrol 170bhp Estate SE
MG Midget Mk1 1962

Previous: L322 Range Rover TDV8 3.6 2008; L322 Range Rover TD6 3.0 2002; P38A Range Rover V8 1999

if i was him, i'd leave the xmas lights in the box!

I'd just like to report it's been two days now and they are both going OK

Dam, shouldn't have said that.....  Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-