Ok well I have resently put a new motor in and I went to start it with the key and it didn't work the ignition came on so I had to use the push button solinoid on the car to start now I have a wire comming off the back of the ignition when u go to crank the motor over it gets power were does it join up to on the solinoid ??? Which lug I have looked at a manual can't figure it out

The wire is White, with a thin red trace

the terminal for the start is in between the 2 big terminals but just down the solinoid a tad

Edit--> maybe you have mixed upo the "Oil Warning wire" with the start wire... oil warning wire is white with a thin brown trace

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Ok the thing with my car is that none of the wire colours are right thanks to the bloke who had it before me so it is hard to tell I have put this wire there and nuffin happens could my solinoid be shot

Run a jump wire from the battery side of the solenoid to the little terminal on the solenoid and see if the solenoid works.

And if nothing happpens wat does that mean

that means the solinoid isn`t working, or your battery terminal (on the solinoid) isn`t connected to the battery, or your battery is flat

if there`s a slight """Clicking""" noise then it could still mean that the solinoid is orking & the starter is buggered,,, But it could also mean that the solinoid isn`t working (properly) it can be throwing in but not contacting properly/cleanly,,, so you`d then have to check to see if there is any power at the starter terminal while you have power at that little trigger terminal on the solinoidto determine whether it`s the starter that`s buggered or the solinoid that`s buggered

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

It is one of those push button starters were u caN start the car from the engine bay I did the wire thing and nuffin happened but when I push the button starter motor comes on so solinoid I recon