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roflwaffle · 01-09-2008, 04:09 AM

There's way more starter wear from excessive cranking/undervolting than from normal starts. IIRC the number of starts most starters can do before replacement/rebuilding is in the hundreds of thousands.

01-09-2008, 04:09 AM	#3 (permalink)
roflwaffle 101% win Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Where I live Posts: 1,362 Camryaro - '92 Camry LE V6 90 day: 31.12 mpg (US) Toy - '82 Pickup 90 day: 24.44 mpg (US) Thanks: 82 Thanked 64 Times in 43 Posts	There's way more starter wear from excessive cranking/undervolting than from normal starts. IIRC the number of starts most starters can do before replacement/rebuilding is in the hundreds of thousands.