Do you ever think you shouldn't have bothered starting?

As the observer of my posts will have noticed I have had a litany of issues related to the disturbing of Dreadnaught at the hands of the garage doing the clutch and head gasket. First was the front crankshaft oil seal, then the heater matrix and now the starter motor is acting up. It started slowly if you'll forgive the pun and responded to percussive maintenance and was good for all of 3 weeks but it got worse and worse so that I now feel better parking pointed down hill. Euros are supplying a new one tomorrow but its a Lucas Prince of Darkness one so we'll see if it has another hundred thousand miles in it or if it lets the smoke out within the month?

I know that a car is a system and the parts interact and age together but it is annoying to fix one thing that causes a cascade failure. Gets expensive too.

Keithy wrote: It's a company vehicle....all tax deductible.

Absolutely it is all tax deducted but the money still has to be earned.

so I have replaced the starter. What a git of a job.

I shouldn't complain its been a very reliable in real terms.

Roger Fairclough wrote: You guys don't know you are born.

Many years ago I was asked to change the starter motor on a Renault 16. First instruction in the official manual.

REMOVE ENGINE.

I refused and did the job. Took me 7 hours.

Roger

There's a Monty Python joke in there somewhere.

In my day we'd have been glad of a starter motor, we had to encourage t' hampster to get ont tweel an force it to run like buggery!