Re: Starter?

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Kwan <bkwan@lynx.dac.neu.edu>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 4:51 PM
Subject: Starter?


>Hi everyone,
>
> I have an 1990 100 and I have a problem that may or may not be
>the starter.  First of all I had the starter replaced about a week ago
>and the battery is brand new.  After getting out of work I tried to
>start the car and it only clicked once.  The car was parked there for
>about nine hours.  The next time it happened was between 5 days or a
>week.  The voltmeter reads a little more than 12 volts when this
>happens, and on both occasions the car started up fine on the second
>try.  Could this be a flaky rebuilt starter?
>
>Thanks for the help, and thanks to the people who responded to the
>problem with my trunk lock, I still haven't had any time to fix it yet.
>
>Ben
>
>94 90S
>90 100
>85 4000S

Hi Ben;

    Check that the connections at the starter are clean and tight. Check
that the battery terminal connections are clean and tight. If the
connections check out OK, you probably have a bad solenoid on the starter.

HTH

Fred Munro
'91 200q  255k km