Emergency - Ess Z4m Vt2 No Start

[pokeybritches]

Originally Posted by Westersund

Interesting. So the grinding gears at startup is gone by just runing a few tanks of gas or are you talking about the hunting idle? I don't have any hunting idle just the intermitent gear grinding at start up. The gear on the starter grinds on the starter ring on the fly wheel. It's like it won't engage fully before it tries to start the car or disengage before the engine has started completely.

As I said earlier. Starter replaced with OE, battery changed and so is the ignition switch. I'm out of ideas. Maybe it's a bad electrical ground?

Nice to hear that your problem is sorted!

Everything is back to normal. The grinding would come from the engine turning over several times and the starter disengaging, then trying to re-engage. The key was held in the start position the whole time, and never cycled or released into the run position.

I'm not sure what tells the starter to automatically disengage when the car senses that it has successfully fired up, or how it senses that it's fired up, but it sounds like that could be something for you to look into. Good luck!

[Westersund]

Originally Posted by pokeybritches

Everything is back to normal. The grinding would come from the engine turning over several times and the starter disengaging, then trying to re-engage. The key was held in the start position the whole time, and never cycled or released into the run position.

I'm not sure what tells the starter to automatically disengage when the car senses that it has successfully fired up, or how it senses that it's fired up, but it sounds like that could be something for you to look into. Good luck!

I'll look into that, thanks.