Hi Lads
I reckon my 2004 (pre-d4d) alternator is cooking batteries. I've always seemingly had battery issues....
So the go is this last Century one either shat itself or cooked, clearly its hard to work out which. It spat sulphur all over the place, I pulled it out and charged it and it seemed to come good. I put it in and let teh car run for 10 mins and at the battery terminals I'm seeing 14.1V, I'm thinking thats kinda high.
Autosparky said "Century are crap" and that AC Delco is the way, first alarm bell. He tested battery and yes its buggered, probably as it overheated and buggered the cells.
So I'm thinking 14.1V is a tad high but clearly its also charging current..... Is there an easyway I can test or take to another sparky ?
Any thoughts would be appreciated....
Cheers..Pete
I reckon my 2004 (pre-d4d) alternator is cooking batteries. I've always seemingly had battery issues....
So the go is this last Century one either shat itself or cooked, clearly its hard to work out which. It spat sulphur all over the place, I pulled it out and charged it and it seemed to come good. I put it in and let teh car run for 10 mins and at the battery terminals I'm seeing 14.1V, I'm thinking thats kinda high.
Autosparky said "Century are crap" and that AC Delco is the way, first alarm bell. He tested battery and yes its buggered, probably as it overheated and buggered the cells.
So I'm thinking 14.1V is a tad high but clearly its also charging current..... Is there an easyway I can test or take to another sparky ?
Any thoughts would be appreciated....
Cheers..Pete
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