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Ish, I should clarify.

Starter motors are basically bomb-proof, electrically, anyway. It's the inertia drive mechanics that are potential failures. I've never known a motor to actually die but many of my old Dagenham dustbins have required a hammer on board in case of sticky gearing.

I bought a replacement starter for my wannabe track car because of an intermittent starting problem. Having removed the radiator to even get to the starter it transpired that there was no nut holding the solenoid switch wire on. This is a twenty-odd year old, French, car with barely 100k on it so plenty of short journeys and multi starts on a high compression engine and the existing starter was fine. I only replaced it because the replacement was, allegedly, only a few months old and it had taken me a few hours to get that far.

Word.