Vauxhall Zafira no cranking on key turn

Car: Vauxhall Zafira
Variant: 2.0TDI club
Model Year: 2004
Categories: Running Rough, Starting & Power Loss
M1 yesterday afternoon, very scary, Zaphira 2.00 diesel club running well, sudden death of power, engine cut out. all lights on the dash on, achieved the hard shoulder thank goodness. no fire, slight smell of hot electrics, engine not cranking on the key. fuses ched and appear to be ok. AA techy couldn't find any problem. Used the diagnostic thing and nothing shown as out of the ordinary, no codes indicated. Oil pressure Ok, Fuel ok, battery up to power, alternator producing well, under bonnet fuses appear OK. bump started and still no fault found. Journey resumed, and motorway speeds were achieved, and got home. still nothing on the key. while running all vehicle lights Ok dashboard light all out except the electronic stability management light, which remained on steady.
(not flashing). where should I look for the problem, what is the problem? help Urgently needed. Thanks to anyone who can help.
Snapper2 M1 yesterday afternoon, very scary, Zaphira 2.00 diesel club running well, sudden death of power, engine cut out. all lights on the dash on, achieved the hard shoulder thank goodness. no fire, slight smell of hot electrics, engine not cranking on the key. fuses ched and appear to be ok. AA techy couldn't find any problem. Used the diagnostic thing and nothing shown as out of the ordinary, no codes indicated. Oil pressure Ok, Fuel ok, battery up to power, alternator producing well, under bonnet fuses appear OK. bump started and still no fault found. Journey resumed, and motorway speeds were achieved, and got home. still nothing on the key. while running all vehicle lights Ok dashboard light all out except the electronic stability management light, which remained on steady.
(not flashing). where should I look for the problem, what is the problem? help Urgently needed. Thanks to anyone who can help.
Snapper2
Posted: Feb 29, 2012 (12 years ago)
I've got and use a device called a remote starter,bacicaly it's a button attatched to two leads.
lead one to battery pos,lead two to starter solenoid terminal,small dia wire,and then press the button.
This'll spin the starter/engine over independant of any other electrics,no spin then the starter is shot.
spin?
then the starter solenoid feed is absent,for whatever reason.
Posted Mar 1, 2012 (12 years ago)
not necessarily could also be a poor engine earth or poor or missing main feed to starter you need to check all these before writing the starter off
Posted Mar 3, 2012 (12 years ago)

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