my mk1 won't start

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

No, it means that the solenoid just isn't getting enough juice or its clogged. Check the voltage at the connector to the starter. That wire comes direct from the switch on the steering column. 
I tried the hot start relay (the main wire to the relay with a wire from the battery direct), but it was the starter.
Take it out and have it tested. Becha its bad. Call Mark & Dave and get the permanent magnet type. REALLY big difference!

good luck!

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nate Lowe [mailto:nlowe79@gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2006 08:56 PM
>To: 'Scirocco List'
>Subject: Re: my mk1 won't start
>
>Thanks for the help so far. I hope you'll bear with me as I'm not very good
>at all this car stuff. I went out and tried that car again, it started fine.
>I shut it off and tried it a second time, no dice, same symptoms as before.
>Then I used a length of wire to jump the spade connector on the solenoid to
>the pos battery terminal, it started. So that rules out the solenoid right?
>Since both the ignition switch and fuse box are around 6 months old (another
>non start issue that turned out to be a corroded fuse box), that makes the
>most likely candidate the wiring right? So where do these wires from the
>solenoid go? do they go directly to the ignition switch? Fuse box? Somewhere
>else? I have the wiring diagrams in the Bentley, but I can't make heads or
>tails of those things.
>
>On 7/6/06, Sal Guzzo <pellom@yorku.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Nate,
>>
>> That is a good starting point. Have your starter inspected first. You
>> can
>> check the starter by bridging it directly to the battery. I don't recall
>> how to do that off hand. You may need to connect the wire that goes to
>> the
>> ignition switch directly to the positive of the battery...please remember
>> to
>> put the car in neutral and have the key in the on position.
>>
>> I recently had a similar problem. It was my battery that was defunct.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Sal
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nate Lowe [mailto:nlowe79@gmail.com]
>> Sent: July 6, 2006 6:47 PM
>> To: Scirocco List
>> Subject: my mk1 won't start
>>
>> Help!
>> My car won't start under its own power. When I turn the key to the start
>> position, all the lights come on nice and bright and the voltmeter reads
>> 12V, nothing else happens. No clicks, no starter spinning, nothing. I got
>> it
>> to start at work by getting a couple guys to push my and then dumping the
>> clutch. It ran fine after that, but as soon as I shut it off at my
>> apartment
>> the same thing happened when I tried to start it again.
>>
>> I did some searching in my repair manuals, and it looks like it's either
>> the
>> solenoid, the ignition switch, or the wiring between the two. I'm supposed
>> to bridge starter terminals 30 and 50, but I'm not sure where exactly
>> those
>> are.
>>
>> Any other ideas for things to check if this doesn't work are also welcome.
>> TIA
>> Nate
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