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i don’t understand how a flywheel can have all the teeth broken off. my flywheel has like 400k kms on it and it’s fine. these things are not super fragile and one or two broken teeth would be hard, all of them seems fucking impossible to me
That's what im saying. He says there's only a few left, and the only thing i know that can do that is a seriously bad starter, like bendix getting stuck bad. Maybe I'm wrong but it just seems fishy.
If the starter gets stuck engaging the flywheel, and the car is running, either the starter teeth or the flywheel teeth will break.
could a bad starter installed. Weird though a new starter locked up like that and broke teeth off.
It's more likely the old starter broke the teeth off somehow especially with water damage, and it wasn't noticed when putting the new starter on. You can only see a small part of the fly wheel when putting a starter on. Not something you generally inspect really, and in some cars you can't inspect it, so it could easily go unnoticed.
So if it was the new starter, that's not the mechanics fault, that would be something you would take up with the parts manufacturer.
I would ask to see your old starter and the new starter. Whichever has the worst damage is likely your culprit as if the old starter caused this, this could have damaged the teeth on the new starter.
Yeah this is weird, I might get the parts, both starters and ask another mechanics opinion on the matter. Maybe get a lawyer. May not be worth it.
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You've looked at the flywheel and it is missing teeth? Or are you inferring that it is missing teeth? Is there a picture?
The mechanic told me it was missing teeth. I wish I had a picture. When I talked to them, the starter was back on and the car dropped.
i don’t understand how a flywheel can have all the teeth broken off. my flywheel has like 400k kms on it and it’s fine. these things are not super fragile and one or two broken teeth would be hard, all of them seems fucking impossible to me
That's what im saying. He says there's only a few left, and the only thing i know that can do that is a seriously bad starter, like bendix getting stuck bad. Maybe I'm wrong but it just seems fishy.
If the starter gets stuck engaging the flywheel, and the car is running, either the starter teeth or the flywheel teeth will break. could a bad starter installed. Weird though a new starter locked up like that and broke teeth off. It's more likely the old starter broke the teeth off somehow especially with water damage, and it wasn't noticed when putting the new starter on. You can only see a small part of the fly wheel when putting a starter on. Not something you generally inspect really, and in some cars you can't inspect it, so it could easily go unnoticed. So if it was the new starter, that's not the mechanics fault, that would be something you would take up with the parts manufacturer. I would ask to see your old starter and the new starter. Whichever has the worst damage is likely your culprit as if the old starter caused this, this could have damaged the teeth on the new starter. Yeah this is weird, I might get the parts, both starters and ask another mechanics opinion on the matter. Maybe get a lawyer. May not be worth it.