this is getting annoying...

[Bigballin]

my alternator died once again. this is about the 4th time its happen within 2 years. i go out to start my car and all i hear is a click. no interior power nothing. battery is good no fuses blown. i know im missing something that keeps trippin the alt. any ideas?

[MomentumGT]

Maybe a loose ground?

-Jon

[Corporate_Drift]

^ +1 bad ground

[Bigballin]

i searched when i replaced the alt. previously and didnt see anything. are there any "spots" wheres its common for bad grounds?

[Captain_Ron80]

Just the one you missed... lol. You should try adding a ground kit. You can never be too grounded.

[S-Nation S13]

try checking all the connections to alternator...sounds like a problem my friend ill ask him what exact wire was at fault but just to make sure look at connections and or any splite with the actual wires itself

[brndck]

also clean and tighten your battery terminals. ya it sounds dumb but i've seen vehicles do the most fucked up and intermittent things due to nothing more than a corroded terminal that looked perfectly fine till we pulled it off.

[racepar1]

What brand of alternators are you buying? I hope not the cheap crap like vatozone/duralast.

[Vision Garage]

haha. Just get the autozone crap. Who cares. You have a lifetime warranty on them anyway.

[racepar1]

Ya but lifetime warranty does not mean that they will last a lifetime. It simply means that EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN TIME that it takes a crap you can get a new one that will take a crap on you as well for free (as long as you still have the reciept).

[Skullavera]

haha. Just get the autozone crap. Who cares. You have a lifetime warranty on them anyway.

+1 for that one ^^^^^^^^^^^

Go autozone and get a free sponsorship!

If they're fucking up then it's not the alternator, it's your car.

[Bigballin]

i have a feeling its the car. i think its a gasket that causing oil residue(?) to fuck it up.

[NI_YON_Zenki]

Go for the gusto, get a Quest alternator. 60 < 120 comparative amperage, but the stock setup to it will limit it to what the electrical calls for, but to have the means there, no major chips difference. I've had mine a year complete, still hard.

[Vision Garage]

for all the alternators to fail on you, it must be something wiht your car.

[projectRDM]

Go for the gusto, get a Quest alternator. 60 < 120 comparative amperage, but the stock setup to it will limit it to what the electrical calls for, but to have the means there, no major chips difference. I've had mine a year complete, still hard.

OE is 80A, Quest is 110A.

[racepar1]

Very little on the car can cause an alternator to fail. I guess it is possible for a bad ground to be the cause, but I have never seen it happen on a car that was in any of the shops that I have worked at. Another possibility is that something is leaking on the alternator. If there was eccesive resistance in any of the power wires between the alternator and the battery the car would most likely have other electrical symptoms, but check the resistance anyways. I have seen it a million times before, a customer comes in with a dead battery, I charge it, test the battery and alternator, alternator is bad. When I go talk to the customer they tell me that their cousin or someone just replaced the alternator with one from autozone/pep boys/kragen/etc... Same thing with starters and batteries too. Bottom line is check what I mentioned above, if all that is good then get a REAL alternator and try it again. If it still fails then your car is fucking posessed man! Call an exorcist! LOL.

[picho]

no dome lights on or maybe an alarm on the car that might b draining the battery