Advice please A6q - won't start

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
Mon Jul 26 13:31:58 EDT 2004


At 12:16 PM -0500 7/26/04, Chris Thorp wrote:

>I stand corrected!  Though I really did mean _light_ taps.  It has 
>gotten me running well enough to drive from the parking lot where my 
>starter was acting up back to my driveway where I could replace it. 
>The original poster was already talking about having it towed to a 
>shop for replacement, so giving this a try to save the cost of a tow 
>seemed reasonable.

Fair enough- at the side of the road I'd be pretty tempted myself, 
even given the risk.  I didn't mean to be harsh, just wanted everyone 
to know hitting starters with a hammer is a no-no.

You know, Bosch starters are #@$!ing expensive...the tow might be cheaper ;-)

B
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