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Cranks however the indicates that its not charging battery, took alternator to the parts store it tested good! bought a new battery. put back together and now doing the same thing.. also blinkers make the alternator gauge hop back and forth?
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the best way to test an alternator is with a load test-partstores dont do that--battery may still have a bad cell even tho it tested good--an alternator can burn up charging a completely dead batt--make sure batt reads at 12.6volts and no less-----if it reads say at 12.3 its only 50% charged!
had almost same proublem with my sons car ,after two alt and a battlater ,found a loose connection at starter tha was causing the proublem all is well now might want to check
if its not charging while running at14.5 volts or so you have a charging problem mabey no power to the alternator if its charging at 14.5 or so and the batery load tests good and its going dead over night you have a draw from some component in the system.
Did you check the fuses? Are your cables to the battery corroded? Is your ground wire connection clean . Did you get a cheap-*** alternator? Did they check it where you bought it? You may have to have it checked at a napa or other store. Sometimes "reconditioned" means "repainted" Hey, I've been there. If its a discount store alternator get another place to check it. May save you some grief.
Bad alternators straight out of the box are not uncommon. Replace it again and hope you get a good one. Make them test it on the bench before taking it out of the store.
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