Hello everybody ?
I'm having a problem with intermittent starting on my '85 740 GLE. The day before yesterday, when I left my house to go to work in the AM, the car wouldn't start. The lights on the dash came on nice & bright, but the motor didn't turn over ? I got nothing. I took mass transit to work, and tried the car again upon returning home late that night...it started up immediately. It started again the next day before work, started fine again that day after work, but was dead again this morning. Same thing ? dash lights on, no motor turnover. Only a slight click. Weather has been dry; temps have ranged between the high 50s and mid 80s.
The battery is relatively new (replaced last Feb.), so I'm not sure that has anything to do with it. It doesn't stall or anything after it's started (although I haven't driven it much since the problem started occurring, only to and from the local transit stop); it did stall unexpectedly while driving once last winter, but hasn't done it since.
One thing to note: Recently, the driver's side power window stopped working. Last weekend (2 days before this latest misbehavior started), I took the panel off of the door, tightened the screws for the window glide, disconnected the driver's side window connector and tried connecting it to the passenger side window switch (on the 4-switch unit). It worked, so I left it that way until I can get a replacement switch unit. I can't imagine that something I did when fooling with the door would have affected the car's ability to start, but it's an interesting conicidence that this starting problem began right after I did this. Also - the car's previous owner installed a kill switch which operates from the foglight switch on the dash. I'm wondering if my fooling with the window switch could have affected the kill switch's wiring in any way?
Any ideas? I'm obviously extremely non-mechanical and have no intention of trying to fix this myself (unless it sounds like something extraordinarily simple, like replacing a fuse), but I'd like to be somewhat informed when talking to the mechanic.
Thanks much in advance - Alison