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Originally Posted by DR88
my alternator on my 1987 300e is shot. I want to buy my own alternator, and possibly replace it myself. I talked to a mechanic, and he said that bosch makes 2 lines of products, the kind they sell at pep boys/autozone (bad quality), and the kind they sell to mercedes. If i ordered from fastlane, or ******** az, would i be getting the higher quality alternator? Also, how much trouble is it to replace an alternator by yourself?
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You might want to try to overhaul this yourself if you have time to keep the car down for a few days. You should be able to find the parts online doing a Google search for "alternator parts". You will most likely find that only one component is bad and in the worst case that would be a rotor. I got my Taurus rotor for under $30.00 the rebuilt price of an this alternator from Pep Boys was over $100. I will be willing to bet that you could get a Bosch rotor for under $75.00 and repalace everything else needed for a total of under $100,00. These are not difficult to rebuild but if you never did it before you may want to check out a book from the library to get familiar with checking diodes and other parts.
John Roncallo