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Title: Dedra starter motor Post by: toby2449 on 01 August, 2009, 03:27:08 PM ok, very simply how on earth do i remove the starter motor??? Does anyone have an diagrams??? I had a look & tried by taking off two nuts at the left hand side of the motor as you look into the engine bay, & a tiny little nut on the right hand side but it wouldn't budge, so i guess i'm doing something wrong On a plus side the electronic heating control is now actually working!!!(not sure how that happened!) cheers guys ones again! Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: fay66 on 01 August, 2009, 05:31:06 PM All the manual says is "To remove the starter motor simply disconnect the supply cables and loosen the bolts fixing it to the gearbox"
Sounds like a job for a soft faced hammer and a bit of gentle tapping as it's probably a little bit of Ally Corrosion and muck holding it. Brian 8227 8) Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: toby2449 on 02 August, 2009, 10:34:21 AM she started!!!!!!! wow, after a year or so of nothing, i got under the bonnet this morning, undid the cabels to the starter motor, have her a few "taps" of a hammer, tighted everything up, reconnected to the battery, & she burst into life! i've never been so amazed to hear a car turn over!! now to the exhaust, from the noise she makes theres a hold somewhere but not sure where so i've taken the exhaust off the bottom of the car to inspect it, apart from being old & rusty, i can't see any holes, but i know very little about them so i'm a bit lost!! I know ii could get a replacment on ebay but i want to see if i can mend it first! BTW has anyone ever bought an exhaust off ebay?? Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: fay66 on 02 August, 2009, 03:54:25 PM Make sure it's not the flexible section in the front pipe, it's a frequent place for the exhaust to go.
I bought one from a factors in Germany off of ebay, apart from the brackets on the silencer not being quite right, which I got around anyway, no problem, It was delivered via UPS and was a reasonable price, I wrote up on the forum about it so if you do a search for Dedra Exhaust you'll probably find it. Brian 8227 8) Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: toby2449 on 03 August, 2009, 02:32:38 PM hi Brian, thanks a million for that, to be honest i would never even have thought of looking at the flexi part of the exhaust, but today i took down all of the exhaust (everything was easy to come off until i got to the flexi unit - boy did that not want to budge!! but with alot of WD40 the nuts finally came around to my way of thinking!!), & there it was, a part of the exhaust where it joins the flexi part has simply rusted away. Looking at it i guess it could be repaired but the rest of the pipe is pretty fragile looking, so i might go onto ebay & see what i can get! Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: fay66 on 03 August, 2009, 06:33:50 PM Pleased to help Mark,
if you want the email address of the German Factors let me know. Brian 8227 8) Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: toby2449 on 05 August, 2009, 11:16:04 AM well i went onto ebay & saw a company in the UK who do the exhaust for approx £70 incl delivery to Ireland, which having looked around alot seems to be a resonable price. So, i wait to see if it really is clever buying items off ebay!! I think i might spray the rest of the old exhaust silver to make it look better (not that alot of people will be looking under the car!) Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: fay66 on 05 August, 2009, 11:23:41 AM Mark,
That's a pretty good price if it's OK, who is it from? Brian 8227 8) Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: toby2449 on 05 August, 2009, 11:47:09 AM a company called Autogateway, their feedback on ebay looks decent enough! Title: Re: Dedra starter motor Post by: toby2449 on 05 September, 2009, 09:27:34 PM Oops, just put the new flexi unti on the car & discovered the end of the unit is a triangular shape, & the silencer is square!!! I saw Brian you might have had the same problem, if so how did you get around it??
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