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roflwaffle · 01-09-2008, 05:09 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, 05:09 AM	#3 (permalink)
roflwaffle Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,490 Camryaro - '92 Toyota Camry LE V6 90 day: 31.12 mpg (US) Red - '00 Honda Insight Prius - '05 Toyota Prius 3 - '18 Tesla Model 3 90 day: 152.47 mpg (US) Thanks: 349 Thanked 122 Times in 80 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.