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[Brett Dikeman]

At 1:14 PM -0400 9/19/02, Peter Berrevoets wrote:
>I would have to qualify this in that you must have enough juice in the
>battery to run the fuel pump. I've had my 200Q suffer from dead battery
>syndrome and no amount of downhill rolling would get it going.
>
>It seems that these cars like to eat batteries. Buy a good one with a
>life-time warranty, and you can count on using it every few years due to a
>dead cell or two - gotta love Canadian Tire Corp.
>
>BTW I've tried Sears DieHard and Interstate batteries as well, and they all
>seem to succumb to the dreaded Q's thirst for power.
>
>$0.02 opinion submited.

There's a not-very-well-known TSB regarding pulley sizes on the
200's.  They originally were spec'd with too small a pulley; idle
wasn't spinning the alternator fast enough.

I don't have the PNs or sizes handy, but someone on the list might.

B
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