How much to replace starter for a 2001 Nissan maxima?

Answer 1

If you have a set of metric wrenches, it will cost $109.99 at Autozone.

How to change a starter:

1. Unhook the battery.

2. Find the starter. It looks like a long cylinder with a small cylinder on top of it. The small cylinder has a thick wire running back to the battery, and a thin wire that pushes on. It could be under the engine, between the engine and the firewall, on top of the engine, somewhere. Anyway, find this thing. Remove the two wires--the thick one bolts on, usually with a 13mm nut--and the two nuts holding the starter to the engine. Pull it out and lower it with both hands to the ground; if you drop it on yourself it's gonna hurt because these are heavy.

3. Take the starter to an auto parts store and trade it in on a new starter. You might have to wait a day to get it because old starters normally aren't stocked. If you don't mind waiting a few days, take it to an auto electric place and have it rebuilt.

4. Go home with the new starter, put it in place, tighten the nuts that hold it in as tight as you can, put the two wires back on, hook the battery back up and you're almost done.

5. Go inside and clean up.

6. Start your car. If it starts you did it right.

For this a garage will charge you a hundred dollars labor.