The Penny Drops

[Richard J Lebens]

1. Your batttery failed, boiled dry for unknown reasons.
2. Everything seems to work fine now.

A possible but not very likely failure is that the regulator fails at
the higher underhood temperature intermitently.  More likely is a
battery cell shorted and the others were overcharged.

I'd just drive it, but then my Audi always breaks down close to where I
can get a sandwich and a beer.

> But as long as I'm telling the story -- what are the chances that
> Tommy Tow
> was right, and that there's some alternator fault that's going to
> catch me
> up again?  Got any home diagnostics to verify correct alternator
> functioning
> (apart from the fact that it happily produces 13V or more while
> idling)?  Or
> should I just go look at Huw's alternator page to see what it says
> there?
>
> --Scott Fisher
>   Tualatin, Oregon
>
>


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