WTK: How to check if your starter going?

[Tired Accord]

A couple times - I turn the key to start - but nothing. Had to turn it a couple times before it actually tumble. Now there is a relay connected between the gearbox (nuetral wire) and the starter (to prevent accidental remote start if in gear).

1. Could it be the relay is sticking, or the starter going?
2. If I replace / bypass the relay, and the problem still persists, could you clearly say that it is the started faulty?
3. What about "jumpering" the starter the next time the problem occurs? How is this done?
Thanks.

[D_bodyguard]

same problem i getting right now ......some ppl say is brushes .....but now i thinking is electrical .......

to jump it all you will have to do is take ah screw driver and cross the two terminals on the starter and it will crank !!!

[Sheriff]

I getting this same problem as well.

[D_bodyguard]

Bute wey the ass .......everybody have this problem ......wey hook ,anil ....allyh.. HELP!!!

[X_Factor]

if u turn the key and ur not getting ne thing, it could be the capsule in the ignition switch goin bad(where the key goes into)

i changed mine in the b14 and heard its a common prob

[*KRONIK*]

i had this problem recently

changed the starter and the problem came back

turned out it was the relay.......

changed it.........no problems since

[M-Tech]

I'm getting the same problem. When I turn the key, I hear a single click but no tumble. It's not the battery and it can't be the neutral switch because I'm manual.

After I hold the key a couple seconds or sometimes just a half second longer than usual, it starts..

[X_Factor]

^^ check the ignition capsule inside --thats what the key goes into

[Anil_Sooknanan]

you need to work backward from the starter. the first thing to do is "jumper" the starter. it is done to eliminate the starter firstly. there is a wire that goes to the static.(the thinner wire of the 2 wires that goes to the starter)
HOW IT"S DONE? you need to tap the thinner wire with another piece of wire. and let someone try tumbling the car. if it doesn't make sure thy are holding the key on the start position. jumper the wire you've connected to the starter to the battery +ve pole if it starts to tumble then check your relay, neutral switch, wires for cuts and slack connection ( on the starter too) and finally your capsule

[fras]

Some times I turn the key once and it starts... Other times I turn the key once and the starter would just click!
Starter?

Is it better to refurbish ur starter or change it? Why?

[Anil_Sooknanan]

^^^^ yea the contacts in the static is worn. don't be to surprise that one day when you want to start all you getting is just a click

[fras]

Monthend for that

[*KRONIK*]

fras, i have a ck starter 2 sell holla wen u ready

[fras]

thanks but i have a spare

[brams112]

try hot wireing at the starter,just place a screw driver on the positive terminal at the starter and ground off on the other terminal next to the positive,be carefull for sparks,then if car stsrts it may be the switch,if it only making a clicking sound may be the solidenoid, these problems are best retified by an auto electrican,best bet

[Anil_Sooknanan]

you feel is a 280C the man talking about

[Dj_Bee]

that same thing happened to my friend's car,

sometimes when he turned the key, it would start, other times he would hear a click alone...he had to keep playing with the switch till it started...it turned out that the contacts in the static was worn,

went to the electrician and he took out one from an old starter, cleaned it up, and he was back in the game

[Anil_Sooknanan]

[brams112]

boi the man ent say what kind off car he got, plus the static is opened with a chisel and hammer,i have seen it done and the men does put it back together like new,it is a formula when a new one is hard to get and to much for the owner to afford

[Strugglerzinc]