Starter Replacement Cost

What owners actually paid

What this repair is

The starter is the electric motor that cranks your engine to life. When it fails you typically get a click — or silence — with everything else still lit. Labor varies a lot by vehicle: on some engines it is right on top; on others it hides under the intake manifold, and that is what moves the price.

Starter Replacement cost by vehicle

The most-repaired vehicles first. Each range is the middle half of real invoices for that vehicle; vehicles with their own page carry the full breakdown, real repair reports and a printable Fair Price Report.

Middle half of real invoices (25th–75th percentile) for that make and model, parts + labor.

What moves the price

• Where it lives — on some engines the starter is right on top; on others it hides under the intake — that's the whole price difference.
• New vs. remanufactured — reman starters are common and much cheaper.
• Battery and cables — a good shop rules them out before selling a starter.

Quotes near the low end usually mean remanufactured starter mounted in the open. Quotes near the high end usually mean OEM starter buried under the intake manifold or exhaust, corroded cables replaced.

The complaints behind this repair

Owners who end up with this repair most often came in with: Car Clicks or Does Nothing, Won't Start · Car Won't Start · Grinding Noise From Car. Each of those pages shows how often the complaint actually ends in this fix, and what the alternatives cost.

Not sure what's wrong yet?

Start from what the car is doing. The FixDozer drill asks a few plain questions and shows which fixes that complaint usually turns out to be — with the real cost of each.