Difficult occasional hot starting. Rover

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Tue 24 Jan 2006 23:48
Difficult occasional hot starting. Rover - Car
Over the last couple of months my car on occassions has been difficlt to start when hot

(1)Today the car started up first turn of key after sitting outside all night in freezing conditons.

(2)Drove aprox 17 miles the last mile taking about 20 mins in slow moving traffic.

(3)Stoped to make call aprox 2 minutes
when I went to start car

(4)it was turning over but slowly as if battery was in a low state of charge car finaly started after the tenth time of turning over

Recently my car has a head gasket replacement and new battery any ideas, could it be the starter motor ?

by the way the car is Rover 416

Many thanks
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Wed 25 Jan 2006 06:34
Difficult occasional hot starting. Rover - Steptoe
check simple things first; cleanliness & tightness of earth strap between chassis and gearbox, all connections to starter, and even though you've had the battery changed ( or maybe because!), tightness of battery terminals and earth connection from battery.

it's worth putting a meter on battery to check that it's charging Ok
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