Puntoboy56
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Hiya my starter has been going for months occasionally it screams out,but the other day it wouldn’t start at all it was just making a ticking sound, so we phoned the recovery out they said it will be the starter motor is dead so he pushed started it and it worked fine no issues.
I got back home and was gonna go see if someone would check it over but it failed to start just made a humming groaning noise from passengers side of engine we gave it a push start and it started n drove, but the steering light stayed on and so did the engine management light then my mates Saab’s battery was dead so we connected booster cables to it but it wouldn’t start the Saab.
I left to go get it seen to by a mechanic and got round the corner from my street, when I was coming up to a junction the car cut out and rolled back and starting making the ticking noise. I pushed started it again and got it running again but the steering and engine management light stayed on.
As I was driving the speedo went to 0 and the c n h gauge was going crazy as well as doing apparently 5 mph on the motorway lol then when slowing down it went up to 60mph.
The mechanic however fitted the new starter motor today but nothing took it out of the car and bench tried it and it worked what could possibly of went wrong so quickly from being a good runner.
it’s a 1.2 8v 2007 plate grande punto it’s done 162k miles but it’s too good a car to be scrapped if anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
I got back home and was gonna go see if someone would check it over but it failed to start just made a humming groaning noise from passengers side of engine we gave it a push start and it started n drove, but the steering light stayed on and so did the engine management light then my mates Saab’s battery was dead so we connected booster cables to it but it wouldn’t start the Saab.
I left to go get it seen to by a mechanic and got round the corner from my street, when I was coming up to a junction the car cut out and rolled back and starting making the ticking noise. I pushed started it again and got it running again but the steering and engine management light stayed on.
As I was driving the speedo went to 0 and the c n h gauge was going crazy as well as doing apparently 5 mph on the motorway lol then when slowing down it went up to 60mph.
The mechanic however fitted the new starter motor today but nothing took it out of the car and bench tried it and it worked what could possibly of went wrong so quickly from being a good runner.
it’s a 1.2 8v 2007 plate grande punto it’s done 162k miles but it’s too good a car to be scrapped if anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
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