Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I didn't have time to do anything as I had back to back meetings and left it at my buddy's shop. I really like the jumping starter suggestion...and will keep it for future use.

The symptoms are weird. I know about starte issues having worked with vws especially the buses with their long route between battery switch and solenoid. But this one was weird with no click no nothing.

Well my buddy reported that he could not even get the starter to spin on the bench. So he opened it up and found that 3 of the 4 brushes were not even connected! The wires were apparently just hanging there!

He's since soldered them back up but hasn't had the time to put the starter back together and try it. I sure hope this is it.

The question is, how can this happen suddenly? I mean, I am very sensitive to starting anomalies and there was absolutely zero warning on this. No slow starting no hard cranking no nothing.

The one thing was the blower quitting suddenly. But how does that have any relation to anything else? Notwithstanding the ignition switch going bad that is.



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