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Old 03-19-2006, 11:18 PM
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My 0.02, definitely check this out soon. With any luck, it will be the starter mechanism and not (yet) the ring gear (you COULD have two bad ones, it happens). I let this go on a GM car (the starter) and eventually had to replace the starter AND the ring gear after a few teeth broke. This was very expensive to fix. I note that the price of the ring gear in the PP catalog is astronomical.

Are shims involved? I know that on certain US cars there are sometimes shims in this area.
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