Hello i have a 2013 hyundai Tucson ltd. A week ago when heading out for work my car wouldnt start. I had a mechanic come out and look at my car. He swore it was the starter. 2 starters were put on a remanufactured starter and a new starter. Neither help my car start. Everything still comes on the lights radio etc but it wont start. Did he do something wrong? My car has 94,000miles. I purchased roughly 3 year ago at 60,000 miles and its been running smoothly.
Did he do something wrong?
Yes. He didn't fix the problem. Me thinks you need a better mechanic.
I didn't watch him work, so I don't know what he checked, or what he did. It's very unlikely that starter #1 failed at 94k, and 2 replacement starters didn't work out of the box. But it is a Hyundai.
Thanks for responding
Unfortunately the dealer will want to make some good money on you, and they'll try to replace half your car.
At minimum you should try check your fuses and relays. Find a friend to give you a boost.
Has anyone checked the starter relay fuse or swapped out the starter relay to rule them out? If not you should do that first.
You can figure this out yourself.
Go to the underhood fuse box and locate the Starter Relay. Pull it out.
Grab a piece of wire or a paperclip and jump Starter Relay socket terminals 30 & 87. The starter should turn.
If the starter turns you know the battery, battery cables/connections, the wiring from the battery to the relay socket 30 (and its fuse), and the wiring from relay socket 87 to the starter solenoid S terminal are all good.
You'll know the problem is with the Control Side of the relay socket (relay sockets 85 & 86)
If the starter doesn't spin, just grab a test light and make sure relay socket pin 30 has power.
If it does, go to the Starter and pull the connector off of the "S" terminal.
With that paperclip still jumping relay socket pins 30 & 87, use your test light to make sure that there's power going to the wiring connector that attaches to the S terminal on the starter.
If there is, using a wire, Jump the heavy battery cable (B) terminal with the solenoid terminal (S).
If the solenoid still doesn't engage or the starter won't spin, and considering you have a brand new starter, then you know it's a problem with the battery, the battery cable connections (either at the battery, or the engine ground) or one of the battery cables are corroded inside and you have voltage drop.
This stuff is easy and if you invest 45 minutes into watching some youtubes on using a 12 volt test light, jumping a starter relay, and jumping a starter with a screwdriver (you'll just have to use a wire instead of a screwdriver because your "S" terminal is recessed below the plastic connector housing), you can do this yourself and figure out what's happening here.
Time for a REAL mechanic to solve your problem.
I have to have it towed to a hyundai dealer now i dont know if i wanna take it to another mechanic especially when the reviews about the mechanics near my job scream run
I guess that is one of the downsides to a mobile mechanic, they may not have the best diagnostic tools that a full shop would have.
If he swore it was the starter, and it apparently isn't, I hope you are not paying? I would nicely ask for the original starter back and bid him farewell.
By chance did you check your battery terminals to see if they were corroded? Sometimes they can be gunked up, but still have enough of a connection to make the lower power electrical systems come on, but it can't push the amps the starter needs. Something easy to check at least.
When i originally thought it was a battery issue autozone charged it told me it was good and noted and said there was no corrosion. But see the thing with the starter he took mine off and when i went to autozone to get a new one they took off the core fee and kept that one for the new one.
@snj Sounds like you took the battery off when getting it checked, but I would double check the inside of the battery terminal just to be sure. I take it that it wasn't loose when you took it off?
I couldn't crank my old 4runner once in a parking lot that I had stopped at less than an hour before. It wouldn't crank, but it had power. Checking the battery from the outside looked okay, but when I took the terminal off the battery, it had some caked on the inside. Once I cleaned that out, she cranked right up. I hope yours is that easy, but sounding more and more like it isn't.