Chuck W wrote: ↑10 Dec 2020, 08:21 You can verify that in the car by running running a secondary connection to the starter like mentioned in the post above.

This was it, the starter was good but there was no power getting to it. Time to replace the battery cables, I suppose

As far as I can tell this starter is good, right? I don't see any major moving or fluttering of the pinion gear. So that would mean that it's the wiring to the battery that's the issue?

Try connecting a jumper cable from battery ground to a sturdy spot on the engine, then try starting the car. If your car has grounding straps between the engine and the car body like my 2000 V70, than they may have failed. My 2000 has two braided grounding straps from the top center and top right o...

The starter was one of the new $174 ones from Bosch on FCPEuro.

I'm not sure if you can hear it, but it's much less of a click like it was prior and more like a fuse popping if that makes sense. However, I've checked all my fuses and they seem to be good. What are the odds that I got a bad starter brand new?

Yes, it's not a click- it's a pop sound

Also, it's not even cranking.

I've had it on a charger all night and there's no change at all.

Hey all- So I've spent the last 12 hours replacing the starter on my 1997 850 T-5 not because it takes that long, but because I seem to have messed up somewhere and I can't figure out where. I'm definitely at my wit's end. For a while I've been having an issue where the car would take a while to sta...