So my alternator is hosed

[Viperoni 0]

Haha just kidding Mark, but my alternator took a dump today.

I was driving along, tunes cranked all the way, and then I notice that I'm getting a lot more voltage drop on my voltmeter... kinda cool until my amps shutdown cuz the voltage dropped below 11 on the beats

Long story short, it doesnt charge much at idle, and I'm hearing a whining noise coming from the alternator.

I'll be taking it in on Wednesday to get it rebuilt and see what actually fried.

I should be able to make it to work and back tommorrow with it, unless I can bamboozle my dad into driving me, which I doubt.

[Puggsley456 0]

I feel your pain. I went through 5 alternators and 5 batteries in 5 years. I was almost ready to blow my frickin car up I was getting so pissed. I finally ditched the rebuilds for a new lifetime warranty alternator, through a red top in and.....knock on wood....its been a year and a bit.

But now I have no voltage drop at all! No matter how loud I play it.

Edited March 13, 2007 by Puggsley456

[///M5 2,833]

I feel your pain. I went through 5 alternators and 5 batteries in 5 years. I was almost ready to blow my frickin car up I was getting so pissed. I finally ditched the rebuilds for a new lifetime warranty alternator, through a red top in and.....knock on wood....its been a year and a bit.

But now I have no voltage drop at all! No matter how loud I play it.

You obviously do not drive a German car.

[element 0]

Viperoni, didn't you juuuuust do the big 3 to boot? Weak!

[Viperoni 0]

Nope I've had the big 3 forever, but I actually just upgraded my amp grounds this weekend.

Instead of dropping from 14.4 to ~12.4, I was only dropping down to ~13.6, and I could definetly hear it through the subs too, I'm positive they got a bit louder. At least it felt like it.

Puggsley, hopefully I dont end up with a track record like yours! hehe.

Edited March 13, 2007 by Viperoni

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I fried a few alts in my explorer, one most recently 3 months ago. Ended up just saying f' it and going to the junk yard and getting a bone stock used alt for the time being.

[Godsmack 361]

I fried 2 in my EXP and one in my mountie so I feel the pain..............also got a lifer and a yellow top..........no issues.

J

[mrogowski 6]

Suck it up and buy a new one!

Sorry to hear that - I DESPISE car repairs in any form, simply because everytime I took my old Lumina into the garage for something minor, it ended up costing me over $1000. This was EVERYTIME...

I know, I know.....

Alts can sure get expensive too...

[Viperoni 0]

This one was actually rebuilt about 6 months ago, that's the crappy part.

I do all of my own car work, for the most part, so this is only gonna cost me ~$80, but it's still $80 I really dont want to spend on this.... need to buy summer tires very soon.

Stock ~80amp capacity alternator BTW.

[Viperoni 0]

So I got it rebuilt, for $20 I might add , and it looks like it's sitting at a pinch more voltage, both while idling, and while bumping

Here's to hoping for 148db's

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Not bad at all.

[Viperoni 0]

I kinda know the guy, so that's why it was so cheap. It was either $80 or $100 the first time.

It's just a PITA to get the alternator in and out of the car is all.