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Battery light on after car is shut down 200

posted by  dinomartino on  Tue Sep 28 16:56 CST 2010
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Pull out your voltmeter and your Bentley manual and check voltages on the alternator terminals. When this happened to me recently (on a friends 1988 245), the alternator had a bad diode (causing the small red wire to carry 17+ volts) AND the ground wire was of dubious integrity.

John






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