Happy Saturday everyone.
Well, not so much for me at the minute because I can’t use my car in fear of a breakdown.
Let me explain. Yesterday I got out of work early to go to the dentist.
On the way I splashed the car across a huge puddle, got to the dentist and they had the wrong shade of tooth veneer. So a waste of an appointment and I’ve waited all feb for my tooth to be fixed.
Now today it would appear my alternator has broke. Yesterday about two hours after the dentist I noticed a sudden burning plastic smell, I wasn’t to sure if a bag had go stuck to my exhaust or it was just in the atmosphere. I took the car to my grease monkey friend and told him what I could smell wanting him to look at it.
He must have thought I was being a hypochondriac about the Brera as he knows what I’m like with cars. Any sudden change in a cars behaviour and I’m on his back worried for the car.
Today I had a poke around and did the usually essential checks, I could not see anything a miss, so then started the engine.
A battery symbol came on the dash normally where the orangey type of P symbol usually displays on the dash for faulty parking help.
I then checked the battery with the engine off 12.5v on the volt meter. Now with the engine on ( with lights and air con on ) 12.0v
Which tells me it’s the alternator.
Does anyone know where to buy one, or is it worth me just having my refurbed?
Thanks Clay..
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Well, not so much for me at the minute because I can’t use my car in fear of a breakdown.
Let me explain. Yesterday I got out of work early to go to the dentist.
On the way I splashed the car across a huge puddle, got to the dentist and they had the wrong shade of tooth veneer. So a waste of an appointment and I’ve waited all feb for my tooth to be fixed.
Now today it would appear my alternator has broke. Yesterday about two hours after the dentist I noticed a sudden burning plastic smell, I wasn’t to sure if a bag had go stuck to my exhaust or it was just in the atmosphere. I took the car to my grease monkey friend and told him what I could smell wanting him to look at it.
He must have thought I was being a hypochondriac about the Brera as he knows what I’m like with cars. Any sudden change in a cars behaviour and I’m on his back worried for the car.
Today I had a poke around and did the usually essential checks, I could not see anything a miss, so then started the engine.
A battery symbol came on the dash normally where the orangey type of P symbol usually displays on the dash for faulty parking help.
I then checked the battery with the engine off 12.5v on the volt meter. Now with the engine on ( with lights and air con on ) 12.0v
Which tells me it’s the alternator.
Does anyone know where to buy one, or is it worth me just having my refurbed?
Thanks Clay..
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