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'89 240DL strange charging issues 200 1989

uid 27's pic
posted by  Art Benstein on  Thu Mar 11 11:25 CST 2010
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I think your alternator is intermittent. I've found intermittent charging can result from glazed pulleys and belts silently slipping under load, and also from internal stator winding shorts that take 10 minutes of driving to incur. This can be a real challenge to pin down.

Be very wary of disconnecting the battery while the engine is running. Although this is excused as common practice by some pros, they rarely will accept (meaning pay for) that's the reason your ECU or AMM fails later from brief overvoltage spikes.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

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