Wondering if anyone with relevant experience might suggest anything of help here. '91 Dodge Colt with 165,000 miles on the odometer. Drivetrain generally still in respectable shape and getting me around except for one major inconvenience of late: when I turn the key, the starter will sometimes work and at other times just not respond at all. And when it doesn't respond, it will continue to be that way no matter how many times I retry, except until after the next trip down the road, after which it will mysteriously respond to a turn of the key just fine again (provided though I don't let the car sit idle for more than a couple of days before I attempt start). (The possibility of a failure of electrical power due to a low battery has long ago been ruled out. Booster cable jump start doesn't do anything.) So, the car being a standard transmission fortunately, I will then get out and push the car to get it rolling fast enough and then quickly jump back in to engage the drivetrain, starting the engine from the car's motion. (If there's no incline in the road to help keep the car rolling while attempting this, it can be a real pain getting this to work.) What I'm asking for help with is in trying to assess whether or not this problem [bearing in mind the fact that it is only intermittent in that the starter will behave, either, flawlessly or exclusively fail to do anything at all per given occasion] would/should /might typically be remedied by simply replacing the starter-unit?
TIA, Ken
PS: BTW, whereabouts on the engine is the darn starter in this car supposed to located anyway? I've never had any difficulty intuitively finding the starter in any other car that I've owned. But then none of those were front-wheel drive, transverse-mounted engine, models, in case that accounts for the difference.
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