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Climate control fuse problem and alt charging issue... S90-V90

posted by  CW on  Tue May 2 10:28 CST 2006
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Hi Walt,

I got home last night and I looked into the 960's charging problem a bit today. At the battery terminals the 960 was charging 18V when running at idle according to my digital meter. I started the V90 (which has not been running in a few weeks) and my meter showed 16.9V at idle. I drove the 960 to my mechanic's and tested it with his digital meter (better then mine) and it read 16.1V at idle. The only electrical problems I can remember having since I bought the car in Dec were a headlight bulb that melted to it's housing (few months ago) and this problem with the heater fan fuse. Other then that it's been great with no other bulb or fuse replacements that I recall. My mom and sister drove the 960 while I was away and it worked great. I checked the headlight bulbs today out of curiosity and they both appear fine and I saw no signs of overheating. So, I'm not quite sure what to do. According to the '94 960 service manual, the Bosch alternator has a replaceable voltage regulator (http://caunter.ca/volvo960/vp14805.pdf), but I don't see it on the car's alternator. I'm not sure this info is actually correct as it seems more accurate for the older 700/940s. The information states it is for a '94 960 though... Is there any other way to check out what's going on before I go replacing the alternator?

As for the blower, I haven't tested it as mapleleafer suggested. Hopefully I'll have a chance to do that tomorrow.
--
Chris. Halifax N.S. '98 V90 > 195K km, '94 964 > 88K mi. SOLD: '91 745T and '91 745 NA (I miss both of them!).






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