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Originally Posted by Redd
Thanks. What problems/symptoms were you seeing?
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I've been having issues where randomly the car won't even try to start. Electronics come on fine, but the starter is just silent, no struggling or anything. Then after I press the start button like 10 times it just jumps to life no problem.
I replaced the battery first, since it was 8 years old, but that did not fix it. So I saw another thread mentioning the ground cable and figured I'd try it. It's only about $40 so might as well. The starting problem would only happen about once in every 8 starts, so I won't know for sure until a few days out, but fingers crossed.
If this doesn't work, next up would be either the starter cable going to the positive signal from the battery, or the cable between the alternator and starter, or both. Following that I would finally try replacing the starter. I didn't start with that because there are a handful of threads where people replaced the starter and it didn't fix anything (same with the battery, so shame on me for not reading first
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