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Have any of the starters been Denso brand? I thought I remember hearing that for certain models of Japanese cars the starter HAS to be Denso (the OEM manufacturer) or it wont spin fast enough consistently to start the engine.
Pros: Denso spins fast enough
Cons: other brands spin slow
If it’s like the ones over here in the US, it’ll fit but the cable connector is in a slightly different place. I have a Denso Accord starter on my car now.
Pros: it will fit
Cons: cable connector different place
Vehicle:
Honda Accord
I guess I\u2019m in the minority, but I like the feature. I don\u2019t know how you clowns all drive, but it saves quite a bit of gas in city driving and at least in my Tiguan it seems to work well. I\u2019m still on my original battery and starter at 99K miles, which is more than I can say for some cars with conventional starters I\u2019ve owned.
Pros: saves gas, works well
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Mileage: 99000 km
The top one is OE Denso. The aftermarket new Chinesium on the bottom. But I’ve heard better things about new Chinesium than reman Mexican.
Pros: better than reman Mexican
the denso I had before was sealed water tight.
Pros: sealed water tight
I'm probably gonna go with the reman Denso unit from Rockauto.
Pros: reman unit
Vehicle:
Honda S2000
Starters don\u2019t generally \u201cslow down\u201d with age, really. You\u2019ll just find that one day it quits working. I had a failed starter on a 2002 Jetta, probably at around 290-300k miles
Pros: quits working suddenly
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Jetta
Mileage: 482803 km
The starter in my GTI died and I had to push start it. It worked fine but I had a few lights on the dashboard (ESP and something else I think). The starter was the only thing wrong with the car so I think the lights were related to not turning the key to start it.
Pros: worked fine
Cons: starter died
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
At this point I figured the starter was just busted. I had one overnighted and installed it the next day to no avail.
Cons: did not fix issue
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
I pulled the starter, but the auto parts store was not able to test it. I bought a new one, installed it and still nothing.
Pros: new starter installed
Cons: still nothing
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
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