Starter Issue? Stranded!!! Help!
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From: Northwest Ohio
Starter Issue? Stranded!!! Help!
How's it going all?! I recently had my 2005 C6 in the shop for a new transmission and differential. It's heavily modified (404cid/JT-trim,etc...). The car was put on the dyno yesterday after the transmission and differential install. The car started when I left the shop, and my wife and I proceeded on a 4 hour drive back to the area our family lives. I stopped to get gas about two hours into the drive. Upon gassing up and then getting ready to leave, the car just makes one relatively loud click and with no functioning from the starter. The battery itself should be fine, the rest of the car has power and is running at 14v per the DIC. I ended up getting a couple of guys to push me and fired it up that way (I have a manual transmission). Needless to say, I didn't stop again until we reached our destination. Once I stopped, no luck, same story. This morning, same story.
Could this be something as simple as a fuse or loose ground? Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. To say I am bummed out would be an understatement. I bought the car, had it a day and the differential went out on it. Car sat until now (7 months). I get the car yesterday, now this
It's sitting again and I'm four hours away from our home.
Could this be something as simple as a fuse or loose ground? Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. To say I am bummed out would be an understatement. I bought the car, had it a day and the differential went out on it. Car sat until now (7 months). I get the car yesterday, now this
It's sitting again and I'm four hours away from our home.
Cant send you my number.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Feb 2006
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From: Chandler Arizona
Same symptoms on my 06 with 40,000 miles about 2 weeks ago. I replaced the battery since it was 2 years old, still nothing but a click. Took off the starter (had to loosen passenger side LG headers) and took it to a local rebuild shop. They said solenoid was fine, it was a bad armature. $100 and I was back in business. It's my daily driver so I bought a new starter from DB Electric for $75 shipped. It's made in China, but looks like decent quality and another forum member said it works fine. I figure if it fails again I can be to work 2 hours late.
