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This happened to me a few months ago...
Posted by JimF [Email] (more from JimF) on Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:11:40
In Reply to: Alternator recommendation, oldzmann, Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:11:49
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The car would lose power while driving... I'd be doing 65 MPH and the car would shut down and go into Limp Home Mode....it was driving me nuts. I took it to a dealer, and they replaced the idler pulley and the serpentine belt. They said that would fix it. It didn't. Turns out I needed a new alternator too.
Our company uses a local shop (STS), and they put in a "new" (aka rebuilt) alternator. Everything has been fine since then. No more of the squealing noise, and no more losing power.
John and Mark make good recommendations -- make sure to get the idler pulley and serp belt taken care of. But if you end up needing a new alternator, I've had great luck with the rebuilt OEM one that they put in my car.
All of this happened to me at about 80K.
-jim
'01 9-3 SE
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