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12v Alt problem
tubbed - April 3rd, 2008 at 01:31 PM

Hey,

Driving to the coast this morning and the alt light came on/stayed on!!!! Belt is still on and correct tension etc, all fuses are good, connections, battery (2 months old) everything looks as it should be.... threw a tester on the battery (running) no charge coming from the alt.

This alt is only 3 months old :-( has anyone got any ideas of what has happened here??

Thanks in advance!!!!


greedy53 - April 3rd, 2008 at 06:10 PM

did you put a new regulater in at the same time


tubbed - April 3rd, 2008 at 07:02 PM

they're internally regulated yeah?? but good point... anybody ever replaced on in one of these units??


barls - April 3rd, 2008 at 08:02 PM

it cant be any harder than a modern alternator


VWCOOL - April 3rd, 2008 at 08:08 PM

Warranty!


1916baja - April 6th, 2008 at 05:09 PM

If thats a new bosch alternator, My regulator packed it in and i just got it wired for an external regulator. Apparently the regulators are hard to get. Mine works great with an external one. And you can buy the regulators from repco.