I would bet on the starter being bad. If you are in Michigan, I have a spare you can try.
-----Original Message----- From: Fli GLi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 10:58 PM To: A2 Subject: [a2-16v-list] Bad Starter or Bad Flywheel?? Having some issues starting my GLi. Occasionally, the car will not start and I get a nice noise as I turn the key. The noise is something of a grinding, but rather high pitched. My guess is the starter is not engaging the flywheel and just spinning. Therefore, the noise is the starter spinning. To solve this problem, I turn the key to the off position and fiddle w/ the key, clutch, and shifter, in no particular order. Sometimes this will fix the problem on the next turn of the key, sometimes not. It can take up to 5 minutes b/f the starter and flywheel meet up properly and she starts. When they do engage, she cranks for a while b/f kicking over. My question is, is this just a bad starter that needs to be rebuilt? Or has a tooth or two on the flywheel become stripped? Any way of checking the flywheel w/o tearing everything apart? Any advice/experience would be appreciated, Renard _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
