Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 3:18 pm
Doh!!
Morris Minor Owners Club
Promoting the Preservation and Use of the Postwar Morris Minor
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Alternator or Dynamo
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Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:06 pm
Ray you must be unlucky I've been driving longer than I car to remember in cars with dynamo's and alternator' and for many years in modern jelly moulds doing 60K+ miles every year I have had one alternator failure in all that time (a Renault). I've had several dynamos that I had to rebuild or replace.
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:56 pm
+1
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:22 pm
I'm on the fence here, I guess. I've had one alternator fail on me. That was on a Landrover Discovery and cost about £250 to replace and I've had one dynamo fail which cost me about £15.00 to completely rebuild it. Obviously the alternator has cost me more but then again I've dome many more miles on alternator's than dynamo's over the years....
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:11 pm
maybe - out of 10 or so modern cars, I've had to do alternators on most of them. The last one was last monthRay you must be unlucky
on the Astra diesel (130k miles) and I couldn't even get near it to replace it, so it's the 3rd time in 10 years I've had a garage do work for me.When it comes to Minors, I've not met too many people who didn't have an alternator failure - and some had 3 or more fail in a row.