Red Rover has had a new alternator fitted and is happy again - my thanks go to those who helped work out what was up, I hate electrickery in cars :confused:

:D this actually made me chuckle after a pretty rubbish week, thanks!

So the new alternator is fitted, and giving 14.4 volts at the battery when running, and no charge light, so all seems well! I've left the little floater floating, it was working with it hanging there before and it's working with it like it now! Thanks very much everyone for your help, it's...

Much obliged, I'll try to work out which one of the two should be there and transfer that over (assuming when the new alternator arrives it doesn't have one on it)

The one on the alternator has 39 93 on The other has 35 93

Slight query re the wiring: I have two small "boxes" connected to the wiring for the alternator. One on the bottom of the alternator, shown by the light grey wire The other floating around the engine bay Am I correct in thinking there should only be 1 of the two connected?

It's called "we don't want to do the job", especially if they also couldn't fit it in for at least 3 weeks :rolleyes:

Noted, with thanks, I'll probably buy a complete rebuild kit, then I know I have a fully functioning one on the shelf if and when I need it. I'm planning to keep Red Rover for as long as I can (not like Brown Rover, which I'm hoping will be gone in the next 12 months) so having spares can only...

Much obliged to all of you for your help. I hate electrics if I'm honest, it's part of why I love the 200TDI so much, there's not much electricity involved in the process! As I daily drive the old girl, I've purchased a replacement alternator and will order a rectifier. Then, like the...

You're a bloody star! Thanks for preempting some seemingly unpleasant lessons for me! :D I've checked and the wire hasn't just fallen off (it was my first tbought!). Time to get things taken off and bench tested tomorrow, that'll be fun :confused:

I think it's probably wiring for the Rev counter, seems to charge OK (never has problems starting even on a cold day). I'll check alternator output tomorrow though, as it's a very valid point. Thanks!

Sorry if this has been answered before (I had a look on search but I'm not the best with technology, Luddite springs to mind) Red Rover - 1988 Classic, engine swapped for a 200TDI My Rev counter has worked for the 18 months I've had the car. Sometimes it would stick at 0 on startup, but it'd...

Drove Red to and from work, and the rev counter stopped working after I'd filled the tank (coincidence, but a bit of gratitude wouldn't have gone a miss). That's the weekend spoken for then!

I haven't... I'd be willing to bet some garages would give it a go!

Maybe not when they left the factory... who knows since then unless you're the first owner and never trusted a garage to touch it! :D

They don't want the wheel to come off, and they're too rushed to look up the correct setting, wind a torque wrench to it, torque the nuts and tidy up after. I don't think anyone in my place works at the speed some garages do because we don't gun all nuts up to 5 ugadugas and call them tight!

Brown Rover has had two new calipers on the front, discs and pads all round, and taken a bloody age to bleed it through. Getting there though!

I was only kidding, just a bad pun

Is copper ease a euphemism for a bribe?

Start with a proper battery test, if that's OK I'd be hunting for a bad earth somewhere. Wouldn't hurt to stick decent diagnostics on it either!