Date:         Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:24:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Mages <wasserbox@yahoo.com>
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From:         Mark Mages <wasserbox@yahoo.com>
Subject:      Re: Alternator Light
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Just did this last week

Prolly bad brushes - pull your regulator out and check
them first, then order a new regulator...  Mark the
position of the alternator to the brace, and the whole
job can be done in 24min or less (still need to reset
my clock ;)


--- Stephen Overmyer <s.overmyer@uws.edu.au> wrote:
> At 21:28 23/08/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >From:    Richard Golen <rgolen@umassd.edu>
> >Subject: Just as I pulled in the driveway, the
> Alternator light came on....
> >
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I just got home from our trip to Nova Scotia, New
> Brunswick and Maine....I
> >stopped for gas about a mile from home....started
> it up and the alternator
> >light stayed on very dimly. So I turned on the
> lights and heater fan,
> >blipped the throttle ( the same thing happened to
> my 86 GTI years ago), and
> >the alt. light went out.
> >
> >Later on I went to the store and the light came on
> brighter, and it took a
> >little more than blipping the throttle to make it
> go away.
> >        a. Bad voltage regulator
> >        b. bad brushes
> >        c. bad diodes
> >        d. nothing that a piece of black tape over
> the alternator light
> can't fix.
>
> I like d. but...
>
> Same thing happened to me on the WBX last year.In my
> case it was the
> original brushes that had finally worn out.
> Happened about 100kms from home but the good old
> original battery that
> was 7 years old at the time got me home with out any
> dramas.
> After I did the brushes I got paranoid and replaced
> the battery too.
> Didn't want to tempt the VW gods...
>
> Cheers,
> Steve O.
> Blue Mountains NSW Aust.
> '92 Transporter WBX Kombi
> '76 Transporter Double Cab
> '68 Beetle
> '58 Fairmont M19 Speeder
> '00 Transporter 5Cyl Double Cab (work truck)


=====
Mark
Just because you have an opinion, doesn't mean that anyone wants to hear it

87 Westfalia Gl
84 Scirocco 8v
http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/

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