Thread: Starter motor

What actually is wrong with the starter? Is it just the brushes or something else? I still have original starter in my 98 tdi disco, only thing done was new brushes at about 290-310k.

$1100 from Land Rover? - plenty of other new options for way less. Got a new one locally (Melbourne) a couple years back for $300 ish and is fine. They are probably packing up often because all the second hand ones are already old.

WHAAAAAA!.....$1100, just for a starter motor, I just bought a whole '97 Tdi 300, with a functioning starter motor for $750 recently, there is something wrong here.
Have you tried All 4XFour spares, I thought I'd seen new starters advertised recently for less than $1100, a lot less.
Are you sure it is the starter motor itself, one of my Tdi's has a relay fitted to the starter circuit to combat a voltage loss issue in the starter solenoid circuit through the ignition switch, it happens a lot to old vehicles.
A friend of ours just paid a mechanic, who should know better, $420 to replace the starter motor in a Diahatsu Feroza, it still failed to start a lot after the replacement starter was fitted, long story short, I fitted a relay to the solenoid circuit, no more problems, and I'm sure that was the only problem originally, but a lot of these guys don't want to take the time to look. Gaz

Available from Land Rover Parts in Ballarat
Starter motors for D1 300tdi

Bearmach $330.00 inc. GST

Bosch $583.00 inc. GST

Land Rover $627.00 inc. GST

My starter has been playing up for some time too. It has progressively gotten worse. Initially when i turned the key i would get a click sound coming from the starter, four or five goes while playing with the gear stick and she starts. Now it takes many goes and when it turns it sometimes turns slow. If i put the reds on and get a big screw driver and power it up (use it to make electrical contact) she starts up with full power each and everytime. Is it my starter or something else? I did get a quote from Brian from Land Vehicle Spares today for a starter $330

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