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TOPIC: $303 to replace a starter?
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 16 2009 9:01 pm
From: "DemoDisk"
My '93 Nissan Sentra wouldn't start so I left it with a neighborhood
garage which called me with an estimate of $303 for a new starter. Does
that seem like too much?
Replace starter (1-yr warranty) $169.73
Labor 118.00
Tax 15.28
======
303.01
Now here's the story: I called AAA Saturday evening because the car left
me stranded. It had never failed to start before. The AAA guy said the 6
yr old battery still had plenty of charge, but I might want a new one
anyway. The car required a push to start, and I went to Advance
Autoparts for a new battery.
'Clarissa' installed the new battery, and I turned the key. NOTHING!
Just then this big guy steps up and says "I've been watching, and I
think I can help." The hood is up, and he just reaches underneath the
air cleaner duct a second, takes his hand out and says, "Try it now."
The car starts beautifully! "Probably corrosion," he says.
Back home, though, the car wouldn't start. I tried getting under the air
duct, but there's hardly room for your hand, much less actual tools! So
I go to the place around the corner, which wants $300+ for a new
starter.
Question (besides the $300 one) : What did the guy in the parking lot at
Advance Auto DO to the car that helped it start?
Tnx,
Jm
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 17 2009 5:28 am
From: willshak
on 11/17/2009 12:01 AM (ET) DemoDisk wrote the following:
> My '93 Nissan Sentra wouldn't start so I left it with a neighborhood
> garage which called me with an estimate of $303 for a new starter. Does
> that seem like too much?
>
> Replace starter (1-yr warranty) $169.73
> Labor 118.00
> Tax 15.28
> ======
> 303.01
>
> Now here's the story: I called AAA Saturday evening because the car left
> me stranded. It had never failed to start before. The AAA guy said the 6
> yr old battery still had plenty of charge, but I might want a new one
> anyway. The car required a push to start, and I went to Advance
> Autoparts for a new battery.
>
> 'Clarissa' installed the new battery, and I turned the key. NOTHING!
> Just then this big guy steps up and says "I've been watching, and I
> think I can help." The hood is up, and he just reaches underneath the
> air cleaner duct a second, takes his hand out and says, "Try it now."
> The car starts beautifully! "Probably corrosion," he says.
>
> Back home, though, the car wouldn't start. I tried getting under the air
> duct, but there's hardly room for your hand, much less actual tools! So
> I go to the place around the corner, which wants $300+ for a new
> starter.
>
> Question (besides the $300 one) : What did the guy in the parking lot at
> Advance Auto DO to the car that helped it start?
>
> Tnx,
> Jm
A good mechanic can change a starter in less than 10 minutes. Even I, as
a shade tree mechanic, can do it in 10 to 15 minutes without power tools
or a lift.
It seems like they are charging for 2 hours of labor.
If that guy only touched something under the air cleaner to get it to
start, it has nothing to do with the starter.
Find a new mechanic.
--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 17 2009 5:54 am
From: Jim Yanik
willshak <willshak@00hvc.rr.com> wrote in news:SZidndvWuN-
QOJ_WnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@supernews.com:
> on 11/17/2009 12:01 AM (ET) DemoDisk wrote the following:
>> My '93 Nissan Sentra wouldn't start so I left it with a neighborhood
>> garage which called me with an estimate of $303 for a new starter. Does
>> that seem like too much?
>>
>> Replace starter (1-yr warranty) $169.73
>> Labor 118.00
>> Tax 15.28
>> ======
>> 303.01
>>
>> Now here's the story: I called AAA Saturday evening because the car left
>> me stranded. It had never failed to start before. The AAA guy said the 6
>> yr old battery still had plenty of charge, but I might want a new one
>> anyway. The car required a push to start, and I went to Advance
>> Autoparts for a new battery.
>>
>> 'Clarissa' installed the new battery, and I turned the key. NOTHING!
>> Just then this big guy steps up and says "I've been watching, and I
>> think I can help." The hood is up, and he just reaches underneath the
>> air cleaner duct a second, takes his hand out and says, "Try it now."
>> The car starts beautifully! "Probably corrosion," he says.
>>
>> Back home, though, the car wouldn't start. I tried getting under the air
>> duct, but there's hardly room for your hand, much less actual tools! So
>> I go to the place around the corner, which wants $300+ for a new
>> starter.
>>
>> Question (besides the $300 one) : What did the guy in the parking lot at
>> Advance Auto DO to the car that helped it start?
>>
>> Tnx,
>> Jm
>
> A good mechanic can change a starter in less than 10 minutes. Even I, as
> a shade tree mechanic, can do it in 10 to 15 minutes without power tools
> or a lift.
> It seems like they are charging for 2 hours of labor.
> If that guy only touched something under the air cleaner to get it to
> start, it has nothing to do with the starter.
> Find a new mechanic.
>
the common ground point for the electrical system is probably under the air
duct.My 2003 Sentra has a common ground point there.
you should find a screw going into the body with a lot of black wires going
to it.
you need to loosen all the screws that ground wires go to,and scrape any
corrosion off with a wire brush,then retighten the screws.
Adding star washers may help.
and maybe a spritz of WD-40 to prevent new corrosion.
--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
localnet
dot com
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