New starter behaving strangely

[Tony Hoffman]

100% correct, I didn't read the original post correctly. The CSV has nothing
to do with the engagement of the starter to the flywheel, that's a bad
starter. I thought it said he had to crank it excessively to get the car to
start.

Tony

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

> I don't think this is it (for starts, all the CSVs I've seen use a switched
> ground, not power), because the symptom was a free spinning starter not
> engaging the flywheel - ie, a bad solenoid.
>
> Like I said, he just bought it, it's bad, he should return it.
>
>
> On 8/7/2011 10:30 AM, Tony Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Sounds to me like one of the wires is not making contact. I don't know how
>> the 100 turbo is wired as to the cold start valve (don't have bentley
>> here),
>> but on the non-turbos the CSV gets power from the third wire to the
>> starter.
>> If that wire does not get power during cranking, no cold start valve, VERY
>> hard starting. If you don't get power from that terminal on the starter
>> during cranking, hook the two wires together, and it will pull the needed
>> power through the ign switch. BTDT.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>