In article ,
Pete Keillor wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:16:02 -0400, Bob Engelhardt
wrote:

Pete Keillor wrote:
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down at my brother's 4 hrs. away ...
Battery o.k., terminals clean. OK, crawled under and whacked starter
with hammer. Started right up. ...

Glad to hear you got it started, but you drove 8 hrs to whack it with a
hammer? Surely there was somebody there who could have done that! G

Bob
Naw, my wife's car is a 2007 Nissan Pathfinder. We left it down there
when my back went out after a week of fishing. We brought back the
perishables, clothes, and ice chest full of fish in my car 'cause it
holds more. Mine only has 197,000 miles on it. This is the first
starter trouble, so I'm not complaining.

I finally had to scrap my old 87 Accord about a year ago... the body and
interior were really shot, and it needed carb and emission parts that
would have exceeded it's value. I bought it new, and almost it's entire
150,000 mile history was short trip stop and go driving.

However, it still had it's original factory starter, alternator,
distributor, distributor cap rotor and wires, master cylinder, front
calipers, rotors, drums, R wheel cylinders, PS pump, rack & pinion and
all four shock struts. Even it's original clutch cable lasted to within
months of the end...

Miss the old car... I now wish I'd fixed it.

Erik