We had a starting problem with my 1993 Corolla, so we took it
to a shop and they diagnosed it as having a bad starter. Took
the car home with the replaced starter ($400)-and it died on us
the next day. Wouldn't start in the parking lot.
The shop is sure the starter +was+ bad, because hey said the
solenoid was sticking inside it, causing it to run on after the
engine started.
Now the car is back in the shop, which is still trying to
diagnose what's wrong. They say they can show power from the
ignition to the relay, but no powe from relay to starter.
There's a fusible link between the relay and starter, so they
suspect that as being bad. (Of course, it couldn't have been
completely bad before I brought it to the shop, other wise the
car would never have started, right?)
Note: The original symptom was that when we turned the key,
nothing happened--no clicking, no noise, just some dashbaord
lights. This happened once or twice, then every day, all over
the period of a couple of weeks.
Question #1: What's the chance that I originally had 2
problems, a bad starter +and+ an intermittently-bad fusible
link?
Question #2: Can a starter with a sticking solenoid burn out
a fusible link?
Question #3: Do you think the shop sounds like it knows
what it's doing? (I'll post their final word when I get it.)
Thanks for any advice,
Al
