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It turns out it was the starter motor. Managed to get a second hand one and changed it over, took the told one apart and noticed it had 4x brushes in it and one was completely worn down or potentially could have cracked at some point. Still confuses me to why it would start sometimes and not others. However, this must have been a problem for a while as my car sounds completely different when starting up, really clean!!!!
Pros: car sounds really clean
Vehicle:
Toyota Corolla
I suggest you go with a brand new OEM replacement.. an aftermarket one will genuinely fail much earlier.. the original lasted you this long.. but once cry once
Pros: original lasted long
Cons: aftermarket fails earlier
It seems to work pretty well, AC/heat keep blowing with the engine off in well designed systems. Starter is often much better than conventional starters, bringing engine to higher RPM at start which reduces the normal issues with constant start-stop.
Pros: AC/heat keep blowing
Cons: poor implementation
Subaru knew their customers were gonna pitch a fit about this so they way overbuilt the starter. It’s rated for 260,000 starts which breaks down to a little over 70/day every single day for 10 years. It’s also physically much larger than the standard starter from previous generations.
Pros: overbuilt, high durability rating, physically larger
Vehicle:
Subaru Outback
Toyota 2UZ is in the same spot, and the original starter in those can last well past 250k miles when they're not being roasted by the exhaust and drenched in water regularly.
Pros: starter lasts long
Vehicle:
Toyota
Mileage: 402336 km
Starter at ~180k miles and steering rack at ~300k, never left me stranded.
Pros: never left me stranded
Vehicle:
Toyota Land Cruiser
Mileage: 180000 km
I have an 01 sequoia, so same engine and had to do mine at around 250k. It was starting on its way out, slower cranking, occasionally it just wouldn't crank, just typical issues of one needing replaced.
Pros: Slower cranking
Cons: wouldn't crank
Vehicle:
Toyota Sequoia
Mileage: 250000 km
I have had intermittent issues with a cold start where it would need to crank for much longer than seemed appropriate.
Cons: intermittent cold start issues, long cranking
Vehicle:
Subaru
We had the starter die long before the recalls and paid out of pocket and then had to fight with Subaru for some of our money after the recall came out. 3 years later, here we are again with a dead car and I think it is the starter as it is acting the same way it did last time. We replaced it with an OEM starter so I am now wondering if that was part of the batch that was recalled? I'm honestly so sick of this car not starting when we need it to
Cons: died prematurely, repeated failure, car not starting
Vehicle:
Subaru
People are really trying to hype this feature up, but i\u2019ve replaced at least 10 starters this year on vehicles with auto stop/start.
Cons: replaced many starters
Vehicle:
Subaru
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