Morris Minor Owners Club

We've owned four cars over the years with this problem, but I've never found an official explanation. Dynamo charges OK until on a long run (2+ hours) with wipers and lights etc. on. All OK until trying to start only to find that battery is flat! The regulator appears to gradually reduce the charge ...

Er yes... The same TYPE of regulator box... Using a DVM across the battery on each car shows that the charging rate eventually drops below 12.4V which suggests that the battery is being discharged?

I've read all the responses to my query but it looks as if nobody else has experienced a similar problem, but may of course recified it by replacing the offending part when their battery was not being charged and going flat. Whilst I have eliminated the problem in a round-about way, I believe that t...

Hi catsoup - so there are others out there with the same problem! Sorry to hear about your alternator problems - a guy 2 doors up from me has a Landy (series III) and he has been through either 3 or 4 alternators in as many weeks - all genuine Lucas replacements - I've seen them come shiny and new l...