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Symptoms each time:
-Can be hot or cold
-Starter clicks when key turned as normal
-Starter begins the very start of cranking the engine before dead/silence
-All power to the car is killed when this happens, radio resets, must remove key to try again
This can happen once, I curse for a few seconds, and then it'll start right up. It can also leave me stranded for 10 minutes and then miraculously work like 30 attempts later.
The first (factory/who knows how old) starter did the symptoms above for a few days before it stopped starting all together, but was revived with a hammer tap and I got another 3 weeks out of it before it started acting up again.
So I replaced that one with some Driveworks reman'd AAP starter that had surprisingly good reviews, had no issues for a month before the same symptoms returned. This one ceased to work at all a few days later, and did not respond well to hammer taps. Dead as a doornail.
Returned that one for a higher end reman'd one, worked great for a few weeks, and now back to the same crap.
Battery is an oversized ~2 year old 900cca Exide resting at 12.7. Wiring is upgraded gauge welding wire, hammer crimped, soldered, shrunk, and was double checked today when it acted up - no damage to the wire ends or the wire itself. All other terminals tight, all grounds tight and on bare metal.
Bad luck, or ??? I really hate replacing the starter on these things, it doesn't get much easier than the first time.
Sorry for being long winded but thanks for any tips
-Can be hot or cold
-Starter clicks when key turned as normal
-Starter begins the very start of cranking the engine before dead/silence
-All power to the car is killed when this happens, radio resets, must remove key to try again
This can happen once, I curse for a few seconds, and then it'll start right up. It can also leave me stranded for 10 minutes and then miraculously work like 30 attempts later.
The first (factory/who knows how old) starter did the symptoms above for a few days before it stopped starting all together, but was revived with a hammer tap and I got another 3 weeks out of it before it started acting up again.
So I replaced that one with some Driveworks reman'd AAP starter that had surprisingly good reviews, had no issues for a month before the same symptoms returned. This one ceased to work at all a few days later, and did not respond well to hammer taps. Dead as a doornail.
Returned that one for a higher end reman'd one, worked great for a few weeks, and now back to the same crap.
Battery is an oversized ~2 year old 900cca Exide resting at 12.7. Wiring is upgraded gauge welding wire, hammer crimped, soldered, shrunk, and was double checked today when it acted up - no damage to the wire ends or the wire itself. All other terminals tight, all grounds tight and on bare metal.
Bad luck, or ??? I really hate replacing the starter on these things, it doesn't get much easier than the first time.
Sorry for being long winded but thanks for any tips
