Well, its winter here in Wisconsin (God Help Us) and its ******* cold, like ***** frozen to the zipper of your pants cold. Not to mention the roads are in the same shape as Courtney Love after a night of coke and vodka, slippery and full of holes, but thats all old news, the best new news is that my car decided it was time to make its weekly parts failure. Today as I was leaving my sisters house in the bowels of Milwaukee, I attempted to start my car after it had been sitting in the blistering cold for a few hours. As the starter begins to crank I hear a wonderful noise from inside the engine compartment, it is reminicent of a cannon fired in the distance or the sound of a nutt cracker finaly collapsing the outer shell of a hard whalnut. Then........silence, my car is dead in the water, like the Titanic after the iceberg, we have got a problem. As I reach for the latch under my seat to release the hood I pray for something small, like a loose ground or a loose wire, but as the way my car likes to surprise me it was something much greater, I open the hood to the engine bay and see to my horror, the starter laying on top of the transmission with no "ears", or bracket on it. "Thanks, thanks alot Honda, you've mannaged to drain my bank account twice this month, how about one more time for good measure? Alright good, glad we're on the same page." "expletive"........that was the only word I could mutter. How the hell does the starter manage to make an olympic jump out of my tranny and more importantly out of its own "ears"? Well this question has not been answered yet, but the solution was to dump another $120.00 U.S. dollars down the drain in the hopes of it never happening again, dont worry I wont hold my breath on this one. To add injury to insult the car now idles funny while not in gear, up and down and up and down, nearly dying on every downstroke. What the hell is that?, this car is ******* cursed and I can almost predict to a fine point that this car will be the end of me........to bad it is my only mode of transit, or I would have it crushed.

Thanks for reading,
Ryan

 

wow ill take a copy....will you sign it?

 

That sucks dude. Sorry to hear.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Idiotboy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well, its winter here in Wisconsin (God Help Us) and its ******* cold, like ***** frozen to the zipper of your pants cold. Not to mention the roads are in the same shape as Courtney Love after a night of coke and vodka, slippery and full of holes, but thats all old news, the best new news is that my car decided it was time to make its weekly parts failure. Today as I was leaving my sisters house in the bowels of Milwaukee, I attempted to start my car after it had been sitting in the blistering cold for a few hours. As the starter begins to crank I hear a wonderful noise from inside the engine compartment, it is reminicent of a cannon fired in the distance or the sound of a nutt cracker finaly collapsing the outer shell of a hard whalnut. Then........silence, my car is dead in the water, like the Titanic after the iceberg, we have got a problem. As I reach for the latch under my seat to release the hood I pray for something small, like a loose ground or a loose wire, but as the way my car likes to surprise me it was something much greater, I open the hood to the engine bay and see to my horror, the starter laying on top of the transmission with no "ears", or bracket on it. "Thanks, thanks alot Honda, you've mannaged to drain my bank account twice this month, how about one more time for good measure? Alright good, glad we're on the same page." "expletive"........that was the only word I could mutter. How the hell does the starter manage to make an olympic jump out of my tranny and more importantly out of its own "ears"? Well this question has not been answered yet, but the solution was to dump another $120.00 U.S. dollars down the drain in the hopes of it never happening again, dont worry I wont hold my breath on this one. To add injury to insult the car now idles funny while not in gear, up and down and up and down, nearly dying on every downstroke. What the hell is that?, this car is ******* cursed and I can almost predict to a fine point that this car will be the end of me........to bad it is my only mode of transit, or I would have it crushed.

Thanks for reading,
Ryan</TD></TR></TABLE>

My thoughts, if the "ears" are the brackets one of two things could have happened. Granted I don't have a starter in front of me, so I don't know if the starter is one piece with the brackets.

- 2 PIECE - Starter solinoid is really cold, the whole body gets smaller and when it pushes out into the flywheel pushes itself clean off.

- 1 PIECE - Whole dealy is cold, brittle, expands, cracks ,and pops clean off again.

 

cry me a river, your 15 year old car barfed a starter. look for a 15 chevy cavalier, they are uber reliable

 

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No need to cry, I just thought it was funny that it broke the way it did. Like you said 15 year old car, things are gonna break sooner or later and the intense cold isn't helping. I would get a "new" ride, except I have to pay for school and have bills left and right, there isn't too much left at the end of each month.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by g24jr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wow ill take a copy....will you sign it?
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Sure

 

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Can't really argue with that lol.

 

Dude paragraphs own you.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NACvicSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Dude paragraphs own you. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Huh?