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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

If they got past the warranty phase I doubt you’d ever hear about it. There has to be an impact to long term reliability when a starter is being used multiple times every drive and your engine is experiencing start up engine wear multiple times.

I wonder about the "startup wear" bit. Since the motor likely sits for <30 secs most of the time, how much extra wear are we talking (assuming good oil is used and changed on schedule, of course, the modern schedules are crap). I'm not saying that I don't believe it, I'm just curious how much of a difference it makes since the oil is still in place (hasn't had time to run down). I get that there are lots of factors at play, hot oil will run faster. Modern cars run super thin oil to begin with, etc.... So it certainly sounds like it could accelerate wear.

And I've always thought that it could/would wear the started faster. But it's also been years since I had to replace a starter in anything < knock, knock, knock >.