Hey all. I have popup camper fever. I want. BAD. :) But my 2003 Vibe has 280,000 miles on it. The engine has only 180,000, but it's the transmission that worries me. I read that you can easily tow over the 1500 pound limit, but I wouldn't do that. Checked my GVWR yesterday and I bet I've exceeded it...

Are you having starter problems Auduril? I thought it couldn't possibly be my starter because it was only 2-3 years old. I checked everything and. . . it was the starter. Super easy to install. What should I be looking for resistance wise when metering between pin 1 and 2 on the starter relay. The w...

An update for anybody who may read this looking for info. It WAS THE FREAKING STARTER. I ended up having to take it to a shop for diagnostics and it was the starter. Even though it had bench tested good, I had got out there with a multimeter and did all the tests and none pointed to it being the sta...

Thank you Joatman! That was so easy! Woo hoo! And thank you Jolt! Ya'll are awesome!!!

I'm about to try checking it. My starter tested fine but boy . . .I wish I'd known it was so easy to replace the two times I paid someone to do it!

Hey all. So. . . i want to check my starter relay. I see this here diagram that shows it, but it makes no sense to me. I removed the little door to the left of the steering wheel and I see all the plugs and such - tons of them. It seems to bear no resemblance whatsoever to this diagram which claims ...

Thanks. This problem is so intermittent. sometimes it starts just fine. Crazy. I've read a lot of posts and no matter what people think it was. . . it was the starter. I'm starting to think the same. I do wonder if the leakage of water on my driver's door may be part of the problem. It's always leak...

Thanks Jolt!
One time it started in neutral. . .


We're going to work on cables!

I tried that Zimm - maybe. At the risk of sounding like a moron, I couldn't find any engine block to clamp onto. I tried a bolt attaching the valve cover to the engine. . . and nope. nada. When I got to it this morning it cranked right up. And twice at Advance while they were testing starter, batter...

Wow, thanks! If I find that is the problem. . . what can I do about it? (other than use the cables every time - but that's easy enough. LOL) I've got to get back to it in the morning. ******ALSO - this happened a few months ago, I got it cranked by wiggling the connections at the battery, then a fri...

Hey all! So. . . I've already put two starters in my 2003 Vibe. The last one was sometime between 2013 and 2015. Now, it won't crank. Surely, surely it can't be the starter again, can it? So of course I turn to you awesome folks at GenVibe. I've had this car since '06. Put in a new alternator (and b...

Thanks y'all. Yeah, my father-in-law said the Bendix (I had no idea what that was) when he heard it, and the guy who happened to be walking past while we were looking at it said starter too. We banged on it to try to at least save the tow fee, to no avail. It was a big surprise to me, because last t...

Hey all. So. . . . I left the store today, tried to crank my 03 Vibe. And I hear this crazy vaccum cleaner sound. That's it. There's nothing even remotely resembling the normal sound of cranking a car. Looking under the hood, no belts are turning. REally, nothing is moving when the key is turned. Ju...