Thread: After market starter options td5

This one cheaper and with 5 yr warranty but i have not been game to try


Starter Motor TO FIT Land Rover Discovery 2 5L Diesel 1999 TO 2002 TD5 Series 2 | eBay

I went with the local one from an auto electrician at $250 which was a good price. The wholesaler that supplies him wanted to charge me $325 for the same thing!
Fitted it tonight and it works fine. To get the top nut I used a 3" extension, then two (2!) uni's then a 12" and a 6" extension. Got it from underneath.
The sparky told me you should expect to get 150,000km out of a starter, see how we go!

[QUOTE=Davetd5
The sparky told me you should expect to get 150,000km out of a starter, see how we go![/QUOTE]

Wouldn't that depend on how often you start it ?

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Originally Posted by Outback 1

Wouldn't that depend on how often you start it ?

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Ken, you would hope it starts when you really need it, it's ok while your in the road side service , but out back (pardon the pun) one would hope it starts.
I had a cheap high torque starter blow up at the casting that holds it to the motor, the torque was too much for the cheap Chinese cast body to handle. Lucky it was in Metro Sydney so not too stranded.
Caveat emptor.

Originally Posted by Davetd5

I went with the local one from an auto electrician at $250 which was a good price. The wholesaler that supplies him wanted to charge me $325 for the same thing!
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No offense, but The wholesaler has done nothing wrong, they are a wholesaler to sell to the trade not to the one off general public. So walk-ins get full list price. Imagine the out cry from mechanics and autoelectrical places who run a business spends heaps annually from a wholsesaler and then find the general public go in and buy one offs and get the trade prices. Mechanics and other trades rely on a margin on parts to survive, it supplements the labour charges.
Next we'll have motorists wanting to go direct to the refineries to fill their tank up and expect the wholesale price that servos get for buying tanker loads.