Subject: Re: Bad starter? by CFI-EFI on 2009/4/5 0:21:52
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DaleD wrote: Quote:
CFI-EFI wrote: Holy smokes! My suggestion was a solenoid rebuild, but for free. If you wanted to go all out, a solenoid rebuild kit is $5.00 or $6.00. A new solenoid can't be $25.00. Even a starter with solenoid should be about half that. OUCH!
RACE ON!!!
I'm not wealthy, but not cash strapped either. The starter is likely 23 years old. My philosophy on this car is everything I touch, (or pay to have touched), I want it to be improved as much as possible. If it costs me $200 extra to minimize the potential of having to deal with a failed starter later in the driving season, I'm good with that.
Okay, but it sounds like you got a rebuilt solenoid for $225.00, the same as I described that you could had got for free. The starter still could fail.
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DaleD wrote: The owner told me it was the solenoid. He knows a guy that rebuilds them. Total tear down bead blast and rebuild, $225 installed.
An AZ rebuilt complete starter WITH solenoid would have been $130.00, exchange.
