Taking Ages To Start

[squid]

Hello all,

I bought my 2.0d (56 - 2006) Galaxy 2 years ago and occassionaly found the car hard to start. I changed the battery and everything seemed fine for 9months or so and then the same - engne turning over but not firing up, and eventually the battery becoming drained. This time, I changed the battery for a Bosch Silver (80amp I think) and all has been okay for about a year. However, I have never found the Galaxy starts immediately - always took five to seven clicks before it starts. I ask a couple of lads who run a small garage near to where I work and they said its probably the starter motor being slow. Taking their advice on board I've bought a new starter motor and waiting on delivery. With not a lot of dough to spare I've took a gamble on their advice being correct but wonder what the forum thinks? For info, it bumps starts fine and when turned off the battery reads 12.6V (100% battery?), when running reads 14.5 or so (so alternator seems okay?). Also, if it is the starter, what's the chance of a flywheel / clutch problem causing a starter failure, i.e. the problem is further upstream? there's 107000 mile on the car and have just checked battery now after it being sat idle now for 6hrs and it reads 12.5V.

Thanks alot, Mark.

Edited May 30, 2012 by squid

[gregers]

im wondering if it requires a software update.

from research there does seem to be a few problems with the mk3 and smax.

[squid]

What bug does the software update fix? Is it related to the starting system? Thanks.

[gregers]

have no idea,but on some other forums i use there does seem to be a consensus of updating seems to cure all ills??????????????

 

might also be a throttle valve problem,dmf,imobilizer

it might save you a lot of hassle and money to get it plugged into an ids diagnostic system or do the onboard fault test yourself to see if any faults are logged.