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Looks tidy that Baz, nice to see it's around still ;) I've certainly got the bug - I love driving it. I think very soon I'll be chopping it in for one with two more cylinders!!

Well the end of the story, kind of, is it is the starter!! The rest of it is have spent all day mucking about with it! :( lol I tried two other batteries and the alternator off the MK2 Golf 16v and still no joy. Fortunately GSF had a starter on the shelf so picked that up - in the C so hadn't taken off my old one - they looked the same so all good I thought. Until that is I took my starter off and found the shafts are different! The correct starter arrives on Monday so I'll be sorted then. One up side (as I could only now start the car with the battery booster) is the earth on the old starter itself looked really manky so I cleaned it up and the car has now started twice under it's own steam. Happy days! :)

Hello Baz, how you doing?? You coming over to the dark side now?? :thumbleft: It looks a lot better in the photos, trust me! lol It's actually a really solid car, just the paint is a little scrappy in places. It's not a patch on Oz's ;)

...and at the starter and engine block ends, not battery ends I mean! lol

No, sadly not. When I changed the battery back I cleaned up the pos and neg leads - they weren't that bad to be honest - but are nice and shiny now

....going through the list it seems it's compatible with Mk3 Golf onwards :-/

So to update, I put the old battery on a couple of days ago and all had been ok, so I assumed that the new battery was a duffer. However, I went to leave work this afternoon and same problem, the engine was really slow to turn - barely at all and then stopped turning. The battery wasn't dead though. I put my booster on the battery and it started straight away, so now I'm thinking it's the starter motor. I'm just looking at Partsbase to see if the one on the MK2 Golf 16v I have in stock is compatible as a stop-gap, but there's loads of part numbers listed. I'll start wading through them but if anyone knows the part number, feel free to shout ;) (Plus if you think I'm barking up the wrong tree!!)

Cool :thumbleft:

Ah yeah good point Chris, I forgot about those as you go in to Rutland Water - quite fierce! January is good for me too

The Porsche 944 register have an annual meet at Rutland water which I go to - it's a good meet and we could do similar if you're after that area. We first meet up in the boat club carpark on the north side of Rutland Water at Whitwell. Parking is charged now though, I think it's £3? Then after we've gone to the White Horse at Empingham for Sunday lunch. http://www.whitehorserutland.co.uk/ The food is good and they're happy to accommodate a large crowd - if we get one! :thumbleft:

I'm up for that again ;)

No worries, thank anyway Chris. I've still got the old battery which wasn't so bad. If the starter motor is same as MK2 Golf off a KR then I can pinch the one of the MK2 I have in stock so hopefully all bases are covered!

Cheers Chris, I'll be checking both out tomorrow!

I guess ignition switch is ok as it's only been when it's really cold, unless that's coincidence, but then the hot start was ok, which is why I'm thinking the new battery isn't as new as it should be!

Evening all, hope you've been enjoying the festivities? :) When the weather started to get colder a couple of weeks ago, I noticed my C was a little slower to turn over in the mornings, so to help winter-proof the car I bought a new battery. The last two mornings have been bloody freezing! - circa -2 to -5 degrees C and the car iced over. Both days I've gone to start the car, the engine barely turns over at all. This morning for example, it barely turned and thought it wouldn't start, but after 3-4 attempts, without the engine turning much faster it fired up and ran no problem. I then spent 1.5 hours driving back home, with lights, heater and radio on and had no running or charging issues at all. A few minutes after getting home I tried starting the car and it starts fine. I'll have a good poke around the car tomorrow, which will include re-fitting the old battery to see if there's any difference but I was just interested in opinion on what the problem could be. I can only think it's the new battery that's at fault. Answers on a postcard....:thumbleft:

Body and paint looks tidy ;)

To make us have to drive faster to be cool!! lol :thumbleft:

I'm guessing it's set to 90kph as mine comes up a little bit before 60mph. I have to confess to finding myself putting my foot down to make it come up then slowing down again! lol :)

LMAO, perfect mate, no other reason to own one!!

Glad you got a G60 back. Nice E21 lurking in the shadows too! ;)

The paint looks stunning Sean, real nice shine on that ;)

I found some Febi ones on eBay last night for about £15 each

Welcome Gary, that doesn't look half bad ;)

Welcome Carat. Glad you sorted the signature - now we need some BIG pics of your VR please :)

Thanks for the feedback Angus. As you say it makes sense to take the dash out as I'm sure we'd all have other jobs needing to be tackled!