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Old 01-26-2011, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by LandYaghtLover View Post
Well my alt squeaks badly. Figured just the bearing. But if I turn on one heated seat the headlight dim noticeably. So the alt is on my light of projects. Probably rebuilt it. The brushes on it are fine. I had removed them and cleaned all the contacts as well as cable ends. In fact I did any and every cable end in the engine bay I could find.

But if electrical, why would a "reboot" of the car fix it? And it certainly fires up nicely.


I have had vehicles restart and run better with issues. :shrug: Maybe lazy solder within the CIS computer?

Reboots seem to work on PC's running Windows.



Stock alt is, what, 80A? Last time I used my heated seats it could only keep two on low temp setting from memory.
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