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justinp

Member Since: 24 Jun 2016
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 167

2012 difficult to start

My defender exhibited its first reliability fault under my ownership this week.

During starting it cranked for a very short time before refusing to crank at all. I retried a few times but the engine failed to turn over until I armed and disarmed the alarm, after which it fired up fine.

Later this week when turning the ignition key, sometimes there's a short delay before the engine starts to crank, up to a second or so, after which it starts fine.

Is this more likely to be battery, earth, immobiliser problem or something else entirely? Now gone - 2012 2.2 110 DC XS

Last edited by justinp on 28th Sep 2017 6:30pm. Edited 1 time in total

18th Aug 2017 6:34pm

justinp

Member Since: 24 Jun 2016
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 167

Following a trip to the dealer where I was predictably told they could not reproduce the cranking issue, I decided to have a go myself.

Two weeks ago I tightening the earthing bolt on the transfer box about a 1/4 turn, I also re-seated the spade connectors on the ignition switch. Since then the issue has not occurred again.

The fault may return, but so far so good. Now gone - 2012 2.2 110 DC XS

28th Sep 2017 6:29pm

X4SKP

Member Since: 29 Nov 2013
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 2297

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Stornoway Grey

Hello justinp

Let's hope you have sorted it...

Another possible problem area could be the Starter Relay, it may just be 'breaking down' or have poor 'intermittent' connections...(No. 3)

Click image to enlarge

I had a similar starting issues (more all or nothing but the occasional 1 second of life then nothing) that was down to a rear connector on the ignition switch...
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic56604.html

Good Luck... SKIP
https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic83242.html

28th Sep 2017 6:55pm

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