Floored car, now voltmeter reads 18 volts, altenator?
05-03-2010, 06:40 AM
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Floored car, now voltmeter reads 18 volts, altenator? I did a search about voltmeter and altenator problems but only found people who have had volts drop or a slow charging vehicle but as my title says I floored my car yesterday, shifted to second and all of a sudden almost every light on my gauges came on and voltmeter is pegged at 18 volts now. I was luckily close to home and went straight there and shut it off. I came back a couple minutes later, started it again and it goes straight to 18 volts again and when it hits 16-17 or so all the lights go haywire on dash. I'm thinking the altenator voltage regulator inside is bad but before I buy one and change it has anybody else experienced this?
05-04-2010, 06:51 AM
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haha, your thing worked and so I bought an altenator from my friend who had one laying around since he switched to a "power bastards" and my car works perfect again. Sits at abot 14-15 on the gauge and doesn't go up as the rpms go up anymore like a secondary tach.
