Good to hear you have the upgraded one. Particularly for winter, which is where you can get into problems with the earlier one. With defogger on, blower fan on, defroster...mix that with lots of idling in slow winter traffic and you can overwhelm the 70A pretty easily.

$120 for a rebuilt alternator is a pretty good deal. I paid $350ish for a new 80A about 5 years ago.

You should be able to install it without removing the serpentine belt.

Good luck!

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2007 E550 4Matic - 61,000 Km - Iridium Silver, black leather, Sport package, Premium 2 package
2007 GL450 4Matic - 62,000 Km - Obsidian Black Metallic, black leather, all options
1998 E430 - sold
1989 300E - 333,000 Km - sold
1977 280E - sold
1971 250 - retired

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