bad altinator? (spelling)

alreadydefective · December 25th, 2006, 2:16 am

so... my guages go nuts, lights really dim, cd-player died... pretty much no power... these are signs of a bad one? (just makin sure), bairly made it home :-/, yeah

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » December 25th, 2006, 2:37 am

Alternator

Check to see what the voltage output of the battery is. If the alternator is toast, the system would have started to drain the battery. There is a very good test procedure that isn't that pricey a quality auto shop could do to confirm this. Bring jumper cables with you and charge the battery the night before you go.

mx3autozam · Post by **mx3autozam** » December 25th, 2006, 2:43 am

Do the lights get brighter if you rev the motor.and is the Charge light come on?
If so its most likey an alternator.

You can also get a set of booster cables and connect them to another car. If it does not do this issue its your alternator because the other cars alternator will be charging your battery!

neutral · Post by **neutral** » December 25th, 2006, 3:11 am

Symptoms do sound like either a bad alt or alt belt prob. Would expect that you'd see the charge light come on the dash shortly before or as all that was happening tho.

alreadydefective · December 25th, 2006, 1:01 pm

sorry, forgot to mention that, but yeah, the charge light was on, just got money for x-mas, so im getting it tested, and probably a new alt/battery

mx3autozam · Post by **mx3autozam** » December 25th, 2006, 1:13 pm

If you have enough.I would recomend an Optima red top battery..I broke an alternator belt and drove my car for 2 days on just the battery. Recomend one of those babies for sure.

Jacbs2007 · Post by **Jacbs2007** » December 26th, 2006, 12:33 am

mx3autozam wrote:If you have enough.I would recomend an Optima red top battery..I broke an alternator belt and drove my car for 2 days on just the battery. Recomend one of those babies for sure.

I know what my new battery's gonna be.

alreadydefective · December 27th, 2006, 7:24 pm

ok, i have a voltage meter, and i check the alt, and it seemed to be fine, i ran all the electonics i normally run (ac, ran fine; music, played well with subs; lights, bright like they should be;) and im not sure, but yeah, any thoughts would be nice :-/

alreadydefective · December 29th, 2006, 8:28 pm

so, how hard would it be to get a rebuilt altinator and swap it with the old one, on a K8D?

ryan_Fuerte · Post by **ryan_Fuerte** » December 29th, 2006, 10:41 pm

most alternators you buy are rebuilt and you exchange your old one for a core charge. Its not hard to change the alternator, undo the big 14mm bolt and the upper 12 mm bolt and its out.

azkcar135 · Post by **azkcar135** » December 30th, 2006, 8:17 am

ryan_Fuerte wrote:most alternators you buy are rebuilt and you exchange your old one for a core charge. Its not hard to change the alternator, undo the big 14mm bolt and the upper 12 mm bolt and its out.

yeah right unless its a 4 banger its a pain in the @$$ had to remove my ac compressor!! found out the alt i got from the pull and save wasn't the right one. same engine though? different car