starting issues

Turn key to start hear nothing not clicking no egagment nothing. Jumped the starter and it started instantly. Checked the exciter wire to the solinoid no power.... the fuse is ok. The ign seems fine as when i go to start the stereo turns off ect. It will randomly let me start it some times and others it will take 10 trys and other times it upsets me an i roll start it... any ideas

theres not much to the starting cicuit, the black an red off the battery(+) goes direct to starter, the white an green goes from the same terminal to the fusible link box(#5)and comes out white an black and goes to the ignition switch and comes out black an red, there must be a plug somewhere as this wire changes to black an yellow and is your exciter wire, check all these with a simple test light

Exciter wire lights up randomly. Like it will start 5 times in a row then wont for 2 days :/

diagram 1.battery
2.ignition switch
3.fusible link box
4.starter motor

probably the same problem that paul had ?
http://micra.org.uk/threads/pollymobiles-rebuild.35251/page-29#post-460614

work you way back when it don't light up, you need to find that connector where the wire colours change, check there, next behind is the key switch, then back to fusible link, and finally battery clamp

good luck

haha us micra owners (bar a couple of hardcore) are the thriftiest car enthusiasts, we don't like buying nothing

heh, i,m firmly in the "spend obscene amounts of money" group rudy
non of that ghetto shit for me :D

I try to cap what I spend, I'm in my fifth maybe sixth year of ownership, my missus is on her fifth car since then, three smashed, one had auto problems and wasn't worth fixing(It was a punishment car for smashing the first 2 nice commodores she had) then I built her an Astra that I bought with a blown motor, she used that to push a Ford Ranger into a pedestrian island complete with safety rail, high kerb etc. $17k damage, lucky I always insist on at least 3rd party property insurance, But I love her and now she drives a s/charged s/pac commodore, if she hurts it she will be on the buses

I just buy wrecks to keep my car going and sell parts to subsidise it, we have decided that this year the micra gets a rebuilt engine, I hope then to get another 5+ years out of it, Its probably been the cheapest, strongest, most reliable car I've ever owned

On the ignition there is black with red trace, power every so often when turning key to start. Then there is red with black trace(unknown wire) it has power only when turning key to start. What is this red wire with black trace? Is it ment to have power when trying to start car? Can i just piggy back the red with black trace onto the black with red trace?
Cheers guys

probably not a good idea, have you got a cvt?

Cvt?? As in auto trans? nope its a 5sp manual