I stuck the OBDII reader on while starting it from warm yesterday evening. It gave a reading of 165 RPM which is what it said last time I tried I'm fairly sure. I don't know just how accurate that is though as when it actually starts up it went up in two or three increments quite slowly up to idle speed so it could well have been fasyter. I need to check it again when the car is having one of it's moods and not starting, that way i'll have ten seconds or so cranking for the reader to get a proper speed reading.
If I can get the proper bosch part number I should be able to get a genuine one cost price from my dad, so won't have to worry about whether its a chinese fake or not. I woner if the intermotor one wasactually a fake... I usually find intermotor parts fairly reliable but this one was off of ebay and suspiciously cheap so who knows.
gill
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