keliente

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Since I bought my car in December (99 A4 formula) all of the exterior/interior lights constantly flicker like crazy at night (well all the time but obviously most noticeable at night). I seriously felt like I was at a rave sometimes, Sandstorm playing in the distance

Anyway I had a good feeling it was the alternator, even though the car is low mileage (28k). Instead of doing any real diagnosing I just bought a used alternator from someone on the board.

I am proud to say I now have nice, continual, uninterrupted lighting

This is more or less a useless thread but I just had to share my joy. It is the little things that make Keliente happy.

staringback05

iTrader: (8)

hmm, this is a constant problem with alot of the guys cars on here, mine does it periodically.....guess it just pissed you off enough

bww3588

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SWEET!!!! I have a chance!!!!






mine, does some flickering when i turn the A/C on and off, i guess thats normal though. im not worried, when my battery quits charging, then ill worry.

RPM WS6

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Sometimes this will happen with lower mileage cars. If the battery was allowed to discharge significantly during long periods of sitting without use and/or not allowed to fully recharge due to short local trips, and the alternator was forced to constantly recharge a nearly dead battery on a regular basis, this can certainly damage it.

The alternator is not designed to continually recharge dead or near-dead batteries. It’s just there to maintain a normal state of charge on a good condition battery. Not to mention, if the previous battery was bad and not properly accepting a charge, then this will be bad for the alternator over time as well.

culhan9

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hmmm,,, funny my car has 29k on it and whata you know I think my darn alternator took a crap on me! My voltage meter has been whacked for a couple of weeks now! And today my fuse for my dash cluster keeps blowing out! Soon as I put a new fuse in and turn my key on I hear that sucker pop! My voltage on my way to work cranked up to somewhere between 14 and 18... I hope I havent caused further damage.

phrozen755

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mine just ate **** and died last week...Though I hope its my alternator, I'm pretty sure of it....I was driving and everything in my car slowly started to die and my voltage went from the norm to 8 volts!...then I finally stopped...stalled out and wouldn't turn back on...not to hijack or anything but since we're on the topic of alt's..sound like an alt to anyone else here?

culhan9

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My problem was an alternator, or should say voltage reg... I also found a bare wire that was causing me some problems too.

andya1280

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just got mine back on friday, was having the same problem with lights flickering.
warranty got me a new alternator, and now everything is back to normal.