Diesel Spare Stop Solenoid

[Gohn 68]

drove two and half hours south, parked and left in a rush with my lights on

return two and a half hours later, get in and turn the key.. flat battery

no dash lights, no nothing

left my lights on !

usually there's enough battery left to power the stop solenoid and a roll start will fire it up

but not this time

luckily a while back, figured I'd probably do this one day

so put a stop solenoid with removeable plunger and a spanner under my seat

whip out the regular stop solenoid, replace it with the one under my seat (plunger removed)

with a push start (was parked on a flat), it fires straight up

drive home and the battery's recharged and working well

 

put my regular stop solenoid back in and the spare back under my seat

if it never gets used again, even better

what a duffer

 

 

 

 

 

 

[welshpug 1,661]

Even easier  to get it cranking over fast enough  on eaay start  and it'll  keep going once theres enough volts

[Leslie green 111]

You probably wont do that again for a while but too easy to leave the lights on if used to a modern car with auto lights 

[DamirGTI 342]

Do you have headlight alarm buzzer on you're 205 ? ... GTi's mostly had them factory fitted , but early models and especially early base models didn't .

 

If there's no factory buzzer fitted , pick one of the universal variants and plug it in .. there's all kinds of them at the car part stores or general bigger DIY shop chains , it's basically just a speaker and very quick and easy to install :

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233401207202

 

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[Gohn 68]

14 hours ago, welshpug said:

Even easier  to get it cranking over fast enough  on eaay start

eaay ? is that some other trick I don't know or a typo ?

 

Like the sound of a headlight alarm D, but I don't like fiddling with the electrics unless compulsory, and the most 'modern' car I've owned was from 1994 - another 205

[Gohn 68]

 

10 hours ago, DamirGTI said:

Do you have headlight alarm buzzer on you're 205 ?

as they say here, yeah nah. its just an Si so no headlight alarm from factory unfortunately

[SRDT 182]

On some 205 you can have all the wiring with just the white buzzer box missing, on LHD cars it's a blue connector on top of the steering column.

[Gohn 68]

really !

that'd be cool, I'll go have a look

[Gohn 68]

On 6/1/2022 at 5:31 AM, SRDT said:

On some 205 you can have all the wiring with just the white buzzer box missing, on LHD cars it's a blue connector on top of the steering column

just had a look around

but mine doesn't have the connector

maybe the base model RHD versions didn't get it but the LHD ones did ?

[SRDT 182]

Not all LHD 205 had it depending of the year.

[Richie-Van-GTi 72 2 Cars]

Best investment you can buy for tools is a small jump pack. By far one of my favourite tools to throw in the boot for long journeys. Mine doubles up as a power bank for USB outlet and a torch, also has a compass