alternator woes
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:33 pm
On Valentines night there I was driving home after having redeemed a BS certificate (Baby sitting!) not the other. when all of a sudden there comes on the charge light and the sediment light.
"Oh dear" I said - or something like that. I arrived home with no bother and the folloing day set about resoving the problem. First I checked the battery with my multimeter and sure enough no charge was coming from the engine. A replacement alternator was needed. Have you seen the price of those things new? It almost enough to make you want to plug yourself into an electric chair - or at least undergo some other form of electric therapy.
So a tour of the local scrappies was called for. All I can say is that the Mazda B2500 and Ford Rangers must be long lived ' cos none were to be found.
Next it was a search on 'titernet. Ultimately decided I would have to take it off and see if a repair to the same was possible. Just had the bad news. The rectifier had blown and that part suprise suprise is none obtainable so it will have to be a reconditioned jobby - £160
Without it the car won't go so I have just authorised the legalised theft of my cash for that purpose.
Question. and I know there is a long sticky on here, but has anyone had any success in tracking down the various innards so as to avoid this sort of expense.
I ask this to see if the cumulative knowledge of the forum might save some costs next time it happens albeit not to me again I hopes
Ian G
"Oh dear" I said - or something like that. I arrived home with no bother and the folloing day set about resoving the problem. First I checked the battery with my multimeter and sure enough no charge was coming from the engine. A replacement alternator was needed. Have you seen the price of those things new? It almost enough to make you want to plug yourself into an electric chair - or at least undergo some other form of electric therapy.
So a tour of the local scrappies was called for. All I can say is that the Mazda B2500 and Ford Rangers must be long lived ' cos none were to be found.
Next it was a search on 'titernet. Ultimately decided I would have to take it off and see if a repair to the same was possible. Just had the bad news. The rectifier had blown and that part suprise suprise is none obtainable so it will have to be a reconditioned jobby - £160
Without it the car won't go so I have just authorised the legalised theft of my cash for that purpose.
Question. and I know there is a long sticky on here, but has anyone had any success in tracking down the various innards so as to avoid this sort of expense.
I ask this to see if the cumulative knowledge of the forum might save some costs next time it happens albeit not to me again I hopes
Ian G