TeSys® U-Line motor starters provide motor control for choices ranging from a basic motor starter with solid-state thermal overload protection to a sophisticated motor controller which communicates on networks and includes programmable motor protection.

Starters From cars and big trucks, to tractors and construction equipment, we have the starter you need for your vehicle. New Starters In 1968 Fondy Auto Electric was formed to remanufacture rotating electrical parts and that is still the primary function of our business, but in recent years we have added new alternators and starters to our product line.

This was done to give our customers the best value, and when appropriate, a choice. We have new original equipment units available for most part numbers, but in most cases the OE parts are cost prohibitive. Most of the new alternators and starters that you see in our catalog are from aftermarket vendors. These new aftermarket parts, whether purchased from us or our competitors, are produced outside of our borders in countries with low labor rates and limited governmental regulation. Unfortunately, many of these new units are also produced in plants with little quality control.

Our competition typically does not have the expertise to qualify the parts they buy, so they only learn of quality shortcomings when warranties start to roll in. So YOU are their quality control department. Our policy is to analyze all starters and alternators starters purchased from vendors before they go on the shelf for sale. The objective is find defects before our customers ever see the units. This incoming inspection and analysis is expensive, but necessary as judged by the quantity of units that are rejected.

Our new units are identified by a “-N” as a suffix to our reman part number. You will note that for some part numbers we offer only a reman, while other part numbers may only be offered as a new unit and others both options. Our goal is to give our customers the best value regardless of whether it was produced in our facility. There are instances in which other vendors offer a new unit when we only offer a remanufactured. This is typically because the aftermarket new units for that part number do not meet our quality standards. Our remanufactured starter may even cost more than the other guy’s new unit, but you need a part that will fit, work when installed and continue to work for years to come.

For some part numbers you will notice that we only offer a new part. That is typically because we have found the new unit to have acceptable quality at a price that we cannot match with a remanufactured product. That doesn’t mean that we cannot remanufacture that part number. In fact, we would love to provide a remanufactured unit, but in these cases it could cost substantially more than the new aftermarket option. Sometimes you will find that we offer both remanufactured and aftermarket new for a part number.

In these instances, the available new parts meet quality standards, but there is not a significant difference in the price of the new and reman units. Some of our customers have a strong preference for products remanufactured in our plant because of their experienced satisfaction with the fit and function.