Thread: jumping starter solenoid with wire?

ok, well my girlfriends starter has ben going out for some time, hitting it with a wrench worked for a while, and sometimes it wasnt needed at all. the other day it went out completely.

i took the car to pep boys to have it repaired, it was 260 thats the part,installation and towing for the car, not that bad really, i didnt do the replacing of the starter myself as the car is a ga16 and its a pain in the ass to replace on them.

well they first replaced the start WITH A BAD STARTER! at their location, ok thats sign # 1..... then they replaced their bad starter with a good starter, i get a ride go up there and pay for the car, start the car and it starts GREAT, but i notice my radio wouldnt come on, and the windshielf wipers would periodicly not work, ok weird.

yesterday i pick my girlfriend up at her job no problem, she gets in starts the car and the starter WOULDNT shut off, i pop the hood and was like WTF so i try to pull the positive from the battery but it was really tight and no tools on hand before i could get the pos off, the starter was smoking and smelled bad.

i get the car RETOWED back to pep boys they say dont worry we will take care of it. well needless to say they are saying its a electric problem and that they wont cover it THIS CAR NEVER HAD A SINGLE ELECTRIC PROBLEM AT ALL! and not only that THEY ARE WANTING 70.00 FOR THE TOWING THEIR SAID THEY WOULD COVER! ok **** pep boys

my question is, right now there is a new starter in it, can i run a separate wire from the starter and then turn the iginiton on and tap the wire from the starter tothe positive on the batterty to start the car....i know this is a half ass way to start the car, HOWEVER now that i am down 260 on this ****, i cannot afford to have anyone hunt down a supposed electrical problem

you could do that I guess, just need to ensure that it can in no way short out or make contact with anything else when not in use. It's possible, but risky.

I'm not sure man but it sure does amaze me the dumbasses that places like pep boys hire to work on cars. I can almost promice you that they like forgot to unhook the battery and shorted something out. Wow.... Good luck figureing that out man

come to find out they fried the starter wire, so they completely reaired the car for free obviously like it hould have been, they ordered the wire from nissan put a new ''platnium'' starter in it, waved the 70 for towing....they did over 370.00 worth of work not including the price of the wire from nissan, which was who knows, but its back to running great again.

thank god

nice job. did you have to yell alot to get that result?

actually my gf took care of all of it, she had to call and recall them, finally they said that the wire was fried and thats why it kept shortig all the starters, of cours they tried to play it ff like, well the car came in with that problem, ok wel if it came in that way why the hell wouldnt you let us know that (by the way it DID NOT) have that problem, i NEVER had any electrical problems with this car, THEY shored it then tried to blame us, but they looked stupid anyway you look at it so i guess thats why they fixed it, they put a brand new starter in it, not a remanu like the other one..

nice