Overcharging problem fixed!

[91Firebird]

Well about a week ago I finally got the car fixed. It had been overcharging after about 10-15 minutes of freeway driving. The charge was too high for the stereo to operate and on top of that, the rpms would get jumpy when the charge was high. I thought it was the alternator, and went through about 3 of them in a few months. I went to several mechanics and none of them could figure out what was wrong. I wanted to give it another shot so I asked another mechanic what he thought and he offered to test my alternator. It had been tested before, but I thought I might as well try again. I removed the alternator, and thought I might as well bring the battery along to be tested too. And it turns out that about 15 minutes in to the test, the battery was not holding it's charge. So I guess the alternator was trying to compensate for the bad battery. The other times I got it tested, nothing showed up wrong because the test didn't last long enough for problems to arise. I ended up getting a new battery this time (and alternator just to be safe) and the problem is solved! Just thought I would share in case anyone else is having overcharging problems, check your battery!

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and that keeps you off the boards? We had to have 8 threads dleted due to lack of third gen content.

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[91Firebird]

Lol :D Nah, I've just been really busy with school and work. I still check the boards almost every day, I just haven't been posting as much. June 13th is the day of my last exam and I'm done until Sept. 25th. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]