Help! First breakdown in 15 years
Hello,
After 15 years of faithful service, my wife's Torslanda suffered it's first breakdown today. Fortunately I was driving it so I know exactly what happened but I'm stuck on how to fix it.
It just died driving along the road and I coasted in alongside the pavement.
I tried to restart it but I just heard a whirring of the starter motor but no clunk of engagement. Having never had a car with fuel injection or a computer before I thought it may be the fuel pump relay, so I tried the bypass tricks on the fusebox and on the relay connectors themselves but it still just whirrs.
I had a similar whirring on my Ford Fairlane last year which was a dodgy starter solenoid which I diagnosed but shorting the terminals. I can't see how to do that on the 240 though.
Any ideas on sorting this would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
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