Quick question. Did you notice problems with your alternator when it was comfortable or warm outside or when it was cold?
For those that had to replace the alternator
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i had most of my problems in the rain but it was solved when i stopped buying POS autozone alts.
save yourself the trouble and i will say again save yourself the trouble and just buy a top notch quality one.. i ended up buying a start n charge and haven't had problems since. knock on wood.
but if you want to really ease your mind just buy a multimeter, and take a look at it yourself every once in awhile
save yourself the trouble and i will say again save yourself the trouble and just buy a top notch quality one.. i ended up buying a start n charge and haven't had problems since. knock on wood.
but if you want to really ease your mind just buy a multimeter, and take a look at it yourself every once in awhile
Nothing yet but +1 on the POS autozone and so on. Either go with OEM Ford or a higher quality one.
Mine lasted 60,000 miles, but the warning light started flickering then would go away for a few weeks and come back again. this went on for most of the spring, then finally went bad at the track in July. I put in another OEM and so far so good.
Mine went at 60k too. I replaced it with a motorcraft one and it has been working fine. I did sound like I had a procharger on my car for the first week though. There was a crazy sounding whistle and whine to the alternator when I would push the gas. I eventually went away on its own.
had 1 let go spring time round 38000 miles replaced with oem with the bigger pulley.
Mine was on the way out at approx 36k. I have a 2.93/4lb pulley combo with a 3.2 alt pulley. I could hear whining through the speakers. Oddly enough, my battery light didn't start flickering until I was driving to get my spare rebuilt.
my car just turned 70k and mine just went 2 days ago. Driving to family on thanksgiving the car slowly started to die. battery light came on and she was dead.
do NOT buy an autozone alternator or anything like that. OEM ford is your best bet. my car runs really smooth now too.
do NOT buy an autozone alternator or anything like that. OEM ford is your best bet. my car runs really smooth now too.
my battery light started flickering at 70,000 miles and lights were dimming randomly. I just got my alt rebuilt for around 80 bucks. Runs great and saved some money.
Start N Charge rocks
Hopefully yours will last.
Plenty of other generic rebuilds have not made it....
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Hopefully yours will last.
Plenty of other generic rebuilds have not made it....
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