Old Jul 17, 2009 | 02:37 PM
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Default Altenator tested OK but light still on after reving - SOLVED

Good old Cossies - maybe one of you 'wired up guys' can help on my latest fault that started yesterday.

Fuel and temp gauage are dead. Fire up car fine and abs lights come on for a couple of moments as it should. Everything else in the dash appears to work too.

Rev the engine and the main red charging light comes on, and stays on until restart.

Tested at the battery and still charging at just over 13. Not great for a 9 month old alternator.

Main wire to battery checked - no rubs or worries found.

Alternator just been checked over by local specialist and told its fine, they revved it to 7K in their test apparently.

Now about to test another alternator that I've borrowed, just in case.

Only other thing done recently was to take out and replace (i.e. same ones back in) all relays and fuses in the fuse box to make sure connections were good.

Anyone had this kind of problem before? After checking the alternator with a spare I'll look around the dash area and pull that out I guess.

Ta folks

Andy

Last edited by AndyPen; Jul 24, 2009 at 10:49 PM.
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