Well after a fair bit of faffing, removal of skin from both hands, swearing etc, I eventually got the top bolt out of the starter motor, having taking just a few seconds to remove the bottom bolt. The How-to's on here are brill but my problem was that with a FBH in the way, getting a socket on that almost hidden nut is incredibly tight, my extension bars were actually too long as the FBH exhaust was in the way! Anyway, eventually got it off trying every 13mm socket I had and the motor was out around 1 min later.
The internal copper contacts were almost toast and I did wonder how the car almost always started first time. The recent just-clicking, even with a fully charged battery led to the suggestion from Arctic that it was likely to be classic worn parts problem. All back together now but as yet not returned to the car and so is untested. Fingers crossed for tomorrow and hopefully a cheap 'easy' fix!
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My 75 Tourer CDTi was born Saturday, 21st June 2003 @ 09:50
My 75 was the 18,749th 75 Tourer to run off the production line, out of 27,407
It was the 195th 75 Tourer CDT Connoisseur SE (135) to be made out of 2,074
and the 1,789th 75 Tourer in Wedgewood Blue Metallic (code: JEL) to be made out of 1,871 Wedgewood Blue Metallic 75 Tourers
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