Is my starter giving signs of imminent death?

[hugepiece]

sat in traffic for 3 hours last night and then like an idiot stalled the car pulling away from lights on the A40. Then pushed starter button and absolutely nothing happened! Luckily a couple of lads pulled over and helped my push car out of the way of the traffic. I guessed as everything was on gas mark 10 the starter was cooked. Lifted up bonnet and sat there like a muppet for 20mins and tried again and it was fine. This has never happened again, then when I got home about an hour later I stopped car on drive and tried to re-start - and it was fine. Do I need to worry this is the fist sign of a knackered starter? Or is this a TADTS at some point and ignore it???

[JensenA]

Thats how mine started, when it was hot it would occasionally just click. as time went on (2 months) it got worse until it would click every time the engine was hot.

[ancol]

yep sounds like the onset of starter failure will probably get worse now as the weeks pass the extreme temperatures will affect it more and more,not to bad a job though remove and if its tilton starter get it refurbed mine cost me £124 a few months back and its brilliant now

[Fex2005_uk]

ive just got mine back from HHC after getting a new starter fitted (under warranty).

Mine started the same, took a few tries and would only click when hot, it then got worse and eventually wouldnt start at all! (I stalled in rush hour traffic in the middle lane of the A1 and couldnt restart- wasnt very happy.

its deffinitly your starter, id get it fixed asap

[hugepiece]

oh no! Thanks for confirming the worst! I've just ordered a TCS cooling chip and water wetter hoping that every little helps. It's never done it before (or since for that matter) so hopefully i've got a bit of time before the wallet gets a bashing....