The bandit wouldn’t start yesterday, I’d just spent a couple of hours cleaning and polishing her with the new cleaning stuff I purchased, tried to fire her up and just got a clicking noise.
The previous owner mentioned he’d had a problem the day I picked it up, it hadn’t been started for four weeks and there was a problem with the starter motor. So, I had a quick browse around on the internet learning what I could about starter motors and what to do when they’re not working. In the end I simply rocked the front end of the car quite heavily hoping to unstick the drive gears, after that it cranked on the third try, fired on the fouth. Obviously it’s not a long term fix, but I’m learning along the way.
On a good note, I landed a couple of manuals on ebay, costing me £26.11 in total, a little cheaper than I would have had to pay on Amazon.
Update:I won another Haynes Manual on eBay, totally forgot about it to be honest, this one costing only £5.99 including postage. It’s well used, but that’s the way the should be. If it’s not used beyond the capacity for decent use, I’ll sell the as good as new one on.
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The bandit wouldn’t start yesterday, I’d just spent a couple of hours cleaning and polishing her with the new cleaning stuff I purchased, tried to fire her up and just got a clicking noise.
The previous owner mentioned he’d had a problem the day I picked it up, it hadn’t been started for four weeks and there was a problem with the starter motor. So, I had a quick browse around on the internet learning what I could about starter motors and what to do when they’re not working. In the end I simply rocked the front end of the car quite heavily hoping to unstick the drive gears, after that it cranked on the third try, fired on the fouth. Obviously it’s not a long term fix, but I’m learning along the way.
On a good note, I landed a couple of manuals on ebay, costing me £26.11 in total, a little cheaper than I would have had to pay on Amazon.
Update:I won another Haynes Manual on eBay, totally forgot about it to be honest, this one costing only £5.99 including postage. It’s well used, but that’s the way the should be. If it’s not used beyond the capacity for decent use, I’ll sell the as good as new one on.
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December 18th, 2006 at 5:19 am
when you park her up, dont put it in p (park) leave it in neutral to avoid it not starting, and get the gasket checked out, when i lod it to the guy you bought off should of got it done as it was mixing a little oil and water thru a worn gasket, the oil pressure should be checked too as it wasnt performing the best it could at the time, it should wheel spin manically when you floor it from stand still