You never want to hear clicking when you try to start your European automobile. This clicking sound is a sign that your vehicle’s starter is going out. The starter is a smaller motor within the large motor that gets the engine going. On average, a starter will fire up your automobile about 80,000 times before it finally decides to succumb to age. The clicking sound is the first warning that your starter needs to be replaced. Even if your car starts, Kinetech Motor Werkes warns it won’t eventually.
You Can’t Start Your Car
In fact, you might not get the clicking warning before you won’t be able to start your European automobile. This is why it’s important to bring your vehicle to our shop as soon as possible if you do receive the clicking sound. If you cannot start your automobile, the next sign in our list will tell you whether it’s the starter or your battery or alternator.
The Lights Still Work
If the starter is the problem, the lights on your European automobile will still work. You’ll be able to turn on the headlights, and you’ll be able to see the interior lights shining. This means that these lights are getting the electricity they need from the battery and the alternator. Consequently, the reason why your automobile won’t start is because of the failed starter. No matter how hard you try to get the vehicle started, you won’t be able to.
You Can Smell Smoke
If you keep trying to start your automobile, you will overheat the starter motor and be able to smell smoke. If the motor is severely overheated, it will smoke itself, and you will see smoke coming out from underneath the hood. Don’t keep trying to start your automobile. As we said above, if you have lights but the engine won’t fire up, your starter is dead and it needs to be replaced. You’ll have to have your automobile toe to our shop to get a new starter.
Oil Is Leaking on The Starter
Age is one thing that will turn against a starter after 80,000 starts as we said above. There is another thing that can harm your starter, however, and leave it rendered useless. The starter is on the left side of your engine. It is located underneath the cylinder block on that side. If you end up with a leak coming out of the cylinder block, oil will soak the starter and damage it beyond repair.
Call Kinetech Motor Werkes in Indian Trail, NC, today if you believe the starter is going out on your European automobile.
