Will they push start?

[DaveR]

Joy of joys: starter motor gone.

Options are therefore to try and replace the damn thing myself or get it to someone else - or at least to somewhere where I can work inside.

I live on a lane on the crest of a hill. Fairly steep one side, less so (but still downhill) the other. Little actual pushing required then as I have gravity on my side.

Before I make a bad situation worse though, has anyone had any successful experience with push starting?

[marcus1970]

DaveR said:

Joy of joys: starter motor gone.

Options are therefore to try and replace the damn thing myself or get it to someone else - or at least to somewhere where I can work inside.

I live on a lane on the crest of a hill. Fairly steep one side, less so (but still downhill) the other. Little actual pushing required then as I have gravity on my side.

Before I make a bad situation worse though, has anyone had any successful experience with push starting?

Yes they can be push/bump started and I have done mine on several occasions without any problems - namely when the starter motor began to die.

The only thing that i may be wary of, is that it may affect your cats, but as I don't have any I don't need to worry about that part of the equation.

If anybody has any bad information then I'll bow to this further knowledge.

MB

[morebeanz]

Yes, very much so. Had to bump start it all the way back from Le Mans last year - camp site, petrol station twice, Eurostar car park, queue, then off the train and finally in a Brit petrol station.

It's a piece of cake, just treat it like a normal car!

Oh, and just to embarrass myself enormously, the problem proved to be the fuse and not the starter motor...