Defender TD5 won't start. Any ideas?

[Billy]

If it's clicking probably needs a charge, however it could be the relays under the seat, wiggle them around a bit or replace, they normally stop the lift pump and glow plugs activating when they have a turn.

 

 

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[wisecobandit]

Ahem

 

Its been parked for three weeks and now just makes a clicking noise, has it developed an earth fault while sat doing nothing or is the battery knackered?

 

I had a 6 month old ford transit last week that had an earth fault due to the earth lead to ground off the battery having a crap contact,

An earth fault can develop at anytime in constant use or stood up.

 

Process of elimination is obviously battery first however jumpleads/jumping didn't solve the situation.

Checking the earth is a 2 minute job and just as likely as a starter motor fault especially on a landrover

No point rebuilding a starter motor costing money when you don't need to because you didn't do the basics by obviously checking its it had + and - when its free and takes 2 minutes

[Bren.]

Well that was weird. Went and had a few (to many) shandies last night and thought I would just try turning it over when I got home. Started first turn. Now leaves me with the worry of going away to work for a month with an unknown and intermittent fault.

Cheers for all the replies though.

[treequip]

Well that was weird. Went and had a few (to many) shandies last night and thought I would just try turning it over when I got home. Started first turn. Now leaves me with the worry of going away to work for a month with an unknown and intermittent fault.

Cheers for all the replies though.

 

You said you charged the battery, wont start, charge battery, will start = bad battery.

[gensetsteve]

Well that was weird. Went and had a few (to many) shandies last night and thought I would just try turning it over when I got home. Started first turn. Now leaves me with the worry of going away to work for a month with an unknown and intermittent fault.

Cheers for all the replies though.

 

Are u sure its not the immobiliser playing up

[tim361]

Could be the starter is on its way out. My td5 went through a two week spell of sometimes it would start other times the starter would keep clicking. After two weeks the starter gave up completely, not hard to change, takes about an hour if you don't mind getting dirty.

[Bren.]

You said you charged the battery, wont start, charge battery, will start = bad battery.

Nope, even after charging the battery it wouldn't start. Went back a few hours later and it did. I'm thinking there's a fault there somewhere, it's just having a rest before raising it's ugly head again.

[Bren.]

Are u sure its not the immobiliser playing up

Could be, I'll put a new battery in the fob.

[Daniël Bos]

Could be, I'll put a new battery in the fob.

 

That'll make exactly no difference at all.

The immobilizer responder is solid-state and passive.

The fob is just for the remote central locking and not related.

[HertsWood]

Starter motor - same thing happened to me. Luckily when it failed I was in walking distance to Foley land Rovers....