Starter motors

[Collectingbrass]

Where's the best place to get a decent one for a 2004 Mk IV Mondeo from - fleabay seem to have only salvage items at the moment and I'm not sure I trust those sufficiently.

[andyiley]

I have just done a quick ebay search on "Mk 4 mondeo starter" & found 171 new ones, so I am not sure why you say there are only salvage units available.

Alternatively try the following websites:

eurocarparts

carparts4less

GSFcarparts

andrewpage

The list is endless.

[PaulKemp]

These motors are pretty simple, unless the wiring is broken then a simple strip and clean will restore full function
I did it monthly when DMF was destroying itself and bunging up the starter

[Greasemonkeymark]

These Dmf are a right nightmare they just cause loads of problems and money

[SpaceGhost]

Same starter as Transit. I'm a scrappy, we can't get them in fast enough to resell. Nothing to do with DMFs, just a st design. I've had rebuilt ones and they fail too.

[shoehorn]

SpaceGhost said:

I've had rebuilt ones and they fail too.

That`s more to do with the fact that 99% of re-manufacturers of rotating electrics use the cheapest st Chinese components they can get or just simply clean what they can and replace as little as possible,again usually with cheap st Chinese components.

We stripped a newly fitted pattern `OE equivalent` alternator from a 2005 Clio and decided to strip it down along with the original alternator too see the difference between that and a genuine unit, the difference was shocking.
The re-manufactured pattern unit started intermittently achieving a charge at idle,and fluttered at higher rpm, after only 400 miles.
What we found inside was diabolical,
Very poor soldered joints,tin for the internal tracks and terminals,
the finger poles were badly pitted from rust,the shaft at the slip rings was poorly re-machined and the plastic moulding for retaining the brushes was cracked,clearly distorted and was obviously made from the wrong type of material,leaving one brush at 60-70 degrees to the armature and the rear bearing had rust on the outer surface.

I`d rather fit a second hand starter or alternator than a non genuine re-manufactured one.

I`m also with the above poster who mentioned dmf/clutch dust,every one we ever changed was clogged full of the stuff.