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Old 05-13-2009, 12:37 AM
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so ive had this issue for a few months and still have yet to solve it. every so often when i start my car up the charge sits at around 10 volts. and after driving it for 5-10 minutes most of the time they will go up to normal charging. but sometimes, like its happened about 3 times, when i have normal charging the volts will drop back down to like 10 volts or 1/4 on the gauge...any ideas? i replaced the brushes, voltage regulator and rear bearing before this started happening
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your battery could be bad. get it tested
Old 05-13-2009, 05:56 AM
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it would be bad even if ive had the same battery in the car since february?
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pretty sure my alternator just died on my way to work. charges were at 1/4 then slowly started going down until the car died. im thinking new alternator and im probably going to need a battery as well. FML.
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having the same problem as you , let me know what you find



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