[s-cars] Starter Problems (long and an attempt at comedy)

[Martin, Gary G]

Had the starter fail on my 91 200 in a similar manner. Heavy cable from
the solenoid to the starter had deteriorated to the point that it fell
apart when touched.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Strangways [mailto:strangconst at rogers.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 11:42 PM
To: S-CAR at audifans.com
Subject: [s-cars] Starter Problems (long and an attempt at comedy)


Ok, so it's Friday night (of course) and I fire up the beast (miss
greedy
piggy) and dive about 60 miles to get my daughter for the weekend. So I
pick her up at mom's, and we drive to the beer store (yes, we have em up
here. Kinda like prohibition) to grab a square for the weekend at the
cottage. All in all un-eventful, till I drive across the street to top
up the fuel.

I get's the gaz, and go to fire up the beast, when low and behold,
nothing. No click no grind no fart, nothing. So, I get the gas station
monkey to lend a hand on the back, and 20 feet later and a drop of the
clutch and we are back in business.

So, I parked on a lot of hills this weekend, or planned to have friends
around. Now I am back home and parked on a flat driveway, and of course
all the drinking buddies are up north.

So, any BTDT's on fixing this problem. I am going to get into the books,
but I thought I'd ask first just in case this is a common problem. I had
NO warning of impending doom, except maybe a bit slower to turn over
lately. I am thinking it's the starter, but have never seen one to give
it up like this did.

Thanks for any input,

Mark S

PS. to top it all off I got pinched for 120 in an 80 on the way home.
:-(




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