General Motors GM Genuine Parts 12645298 Starter

Exactly the same as the original, fit up nice and car starts much faster now.

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so far so good for buick enclave 2012

Used for a 2012 Acadia Denali AWD. The starter itself is of great quality and is oem which is a big plus for me! And it came over night at 8:30 in the morning this Memorial Day! Major plus for me! You will have to reuse your original heat shield and the nut for the big power wire. No biggie! Just don’t lose it! The job itself…..well….. that’s another story! Pull the exhaust manifold heat shield (3 10mm bolts), unplug the 02 sensor but do not remove it, work the heat shield off pulling the 02 sensor wire thru the heat shield hole. Now you’ll see 3 15mm nuts that holds the converter to the exhaust manifold. Take them off ( use PB blaster or WD40 and let soak for a bit). Now under the vehicle. You’ll see the bottom of the converter with a 2 bolt flange. Those are 13mm. Take them off. One of mine did snap the stud so I had to use my cut off wheel and drill to drill a new hole. I had a long enough 3/8” bolt, nut, and lock washer to make it a thru hole. Hope this doesn’t happen to you! If so I hope you have a grinder with part off wheels and a drill and drill index! But now drop the converter down until the top studs clear the manifold. Now spin the converter 180 degrees around and drop it down past the exhaust pipe. The exhaust pipe does have 1 15mm bolt in a bracket that needs to be removed. Now on the engine block directly behind the starter is the knock sensor. Using a 1/4” drive and 13mm socket and extension, remove the single bolt that holds it to the block. You do not have to unplug the sensor! This will allow the starter to have room to pull out of the transmission housing. Then lastly remove the 2 15mm bolts holding the starter up. Drop it down and remove single wire solenoid clip, and the 13mm nut on the big main wire. Then reverse in this exact order for install! Hope this helps!!!

This is the third starter that I installed this year on 3 different vehicles. The installation was straight forward, once I gained access. My first one lasted 13 years and 215k miles and it was still working fine. However, needed to replace a number of other parts and it just made sense to replace the starter.

delivered damaged housing where wire connecter plugs into was broken off returned for refund reordered same part and replacement was fine . good part just bad packaging and rough shipper caused me a couple days of down time on automobile.

Product was perfect and price was reasonable

This is my 1st time buying auto parts from Amazon. I just put my car information in and Walla my part came in a few days. It fits and my car starts up fine, not one issue.