If you buy a landy you'll soon learn how to keep it running, you'll get sudden urges to want to go and work on it or bolt something new to it. Seriously,depends what sort off roading you want to do. If its just green laning or pay and play days or helping around farms etc most of the off...

Sorry, thats not the voltage across the battery, its from the in car voltmeter. The voltage across the battery is usually about 12.7 depending how flat it is. I've been charging it up so I can start the car to test various things.

with the new alternator on? 11V, reving the engine makes no difference either. Which is why I asked the orininal question about the warning light circuit. Wondered if that could be affecting the alternators performance. My problem is if I get a replacement for the faulty alternator and...

Just put an earth on to the alternator connection and the battery light came on. So theres no problems there. Only thing I can think now is the new alternator is faulty. Any suggestions? With the luck I've been having recently it wouldn't surprise me!!

My TD5 does 23mpg on the motorway and is noisy as hell. So if you do get one you'd better get used to it because you won't want to drive anything else.

Hi I posted a thread the other day about starting issues. Well I got the battery and alternator tested and the alternator was only outputting 0.8A. Antwat I have just replaced the alternator but have just notice the battery warning light is not coming on at all when i start the car. I've...

Before I started having these problems the in car volmeter would show 11.7v when not running and 14.1 v when the engine was running. Would a bad earth have an effect on the alternator while the engine is running?

Yeah I thought that too but why hasn't the battery gone flat. It's still holding its charge and all the lights are bright when turned on. Don't mind admitting I'm not good with car electrics but shouldn't it still start if the batteries charged even if the alternators nackered.

Hi Having prblems starting my TD5 90. If I try and start the engine it's as if the batteries completey flat, all the electrics die and it just clicks. If you just turn the electrics on everything is fine. I can turn main beam, 4 roof lights, 2 130W spot lights, radio, everything on and it all...