when you turn the key nothing happens not even a click. The battery is fully charged and the connection is good, this have been tested with a meter. What else could it be, having searched the net I'm thinking it might be the solenoid but I've really no idea. I read someone suggested hitting it with a hammer but I don't know where i would find it, I know its on the red cable from the battery but is it near the battery or in the engine area.

thanks

Caroline, May 2016

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Big red one, May 2016

A starter motor takes a very high current and needs a very robust switch to handle it - the starter solenoid. A small wire activates the solenoid switch which delivers the big current to the starter motor - the big red wire will run to the starter solenoid and from there to the starter itself - in the engine area.

If you hear no click from the starter solenoid it might be defective - the wire that activates it may have come adrift or be broken - the switch that asks for it all to begin may be defective - there may be no power arriving at the switch to be sent out - a fuse may have blown.

You suggest that you have a meter so get checking. A good place to begin is at the starter solenoid - not the big cable but the control wire.

Just follow the big cable - it will only go to one place - the starter solenoid - always close to the starter motor itself.

The hammer idea is not sensible - hammers tend to break things - not mend them.

I have no special experience to offer these suggestions.

Good Luck..., May 2016