Timeline for Toyota Celica battery light on but alternator appears okay on visual/auditory inspection
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| Sep 8, 2015 at 23:55 | comment | added | TDHofstetter | Aha! Might've had oil smears on the brushes or a borderline diode trio. Good to hear it's all behind ya now! 8) | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 16:01 | comment | added | MGZero | Hah, I forgot I opened this question. Ironically, the alternator was just replaced today. It's been working on and off lately. One week it would get you where you need to go and another week it barely makes it down the block. So hopefully that'll be the end of that! | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | TDHofstetter | Cool! Your most likely culprit, then, was a slipping serpentine belt. Spilled motor oil during a top-off? | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 22:08 | comment | added | MGZero | So just a followup, but the car has been fine since and hasn't had any problems. | |
| S Nov 6, 2014 at 22:06 | history | suggested | jscs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2014 at 14:43 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMechanics/status/507901915414659072 | ||
| Aug 8, 2014 at 18:04 | answer | added | justinw | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 15:28 | answer | added | TDHofstetter | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 13:38 | answer | added | Nick C♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 12:11 | comment | added | MGZero | I actually do have one, but I wouldn't know how to use it to check the voltage from the alternator. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 3:14 | comment | added | TDHofstetter | This would be a really really good time to buy a cheap multimeter and learn how to use it to track down automotive charging / power issues... also a good time to make a cigar/cigarette lighter adapter for it so you can monitor voltages while you drive. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 2:45 | history | edited | MGZero | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2014 at 2:00 | history | asked | MGZero | CC BY-SA 3.0 |