17-01-2016, 08:08 PM
Howdy All,
Had months of trouble free life with my 2000 Partner 2.0 HDi. Yesterday, I fitted some new wheels and tyres (Citroen C5 Alloys with 195/65/15 on) and also gave it a rather intensive wash.
Now, this was all done at the same time, but since doing that (please note driving it in the morning with original wheels and tyres, it was fine), I now have an alternator warning light which came on yesterday evening, but after a turn of, turn on went away. Then today was on 80% of the time whilst running some favours. Kept the engine running the whole time just in case.
Couple of pointers:
1) Multimeter on battery after I got back was just under 12v engine off (it just done 2 hours or so driving around with light on and off). Engine running, it dropped to 11.2/3v. Turn it off again, it went back up.
2) Back running again, if I revved it's guts out when stationary, it seems like I could get the alternator to kick in, then it seemed to stay at the normal 14.3/5v.
3) Earlier when driving, it seemed like sometimes when I drove it hard and picked up the RPM, the light would go off, but pootling, it'd bring it back on again. Last 20 mins of journey it stayed on no matter what I did.
4) When I put the new wheels and tyres on, the front drivers side caught the plastic arch liner (it was loose) and yanked it up and out quite hard and stayed as such for 400 yards as I pulled into drive.
Am I looking at a dying alternator? The thing that's worrying me now is the arch liner. I've just read that some wiring runs under that arch from the BSI. This includes the alternator exciter wire. Everything else seems to be fine, but could the liner of damaged the wiring? Could I have damaged the BSI or the exciter wiring?
I've tried to hunt down a workshop manual / wiring diagram, but found nothing. Autodata doesn't have much on these either.
I'm yet to try hard wiring the exciter, but that will have to now be after work tomorrow (so long as the van can get me there!).
Any help appreciated!
Had months of trouble free life with my 2000 Partner 2.0 HDi. Yesterday, I fitted some new wheels and tyres (Citroen C5 Alloys with 195/65/15 on) and also gave it a rather intensive wash.
Now, this was all done at the same time, but since doing that (please note driving it in the morning with original wheels and tyres, it was fine), I now have an alternator warning light which came on yesterday evening, but after a turn of, turn on went away. Then today was on 80% of the time whilst running some favours. Kept the engine running the whole time just in case.
Couple of pointers:
1) Multimeter on battery after I got back was just under 12v engine off (it just done 2 hours or so driving around with light on and off). Engine running, it dropped to 11.2/3v. Turn it off again, it went back up.
2) Back running again, if I revved it's guts out when stationary, it seems like I could get the alternator to kick in, then it seemed to stay at the normal 14.3/5v.
3) Earlier when driving, it seemed like sometimes when I drove it hard and picked up the RPM, the light would go off, but pootling, it'd bring it back on again. Last 20 mins of journey it stayed on no matter what I did.
4) When I put the new wheels and tyres on, the front drivers side caught the plastic arch liner (it was loose) and yanked it up and out quite hard and stayed as such for 400 yards as I pulled into drive.
Am I looking at a dying alternator? The thing that's worrying me now is the arch liner. I've just read that some wiring runs under that arch from the BSI. This includes the alternator exciter wire. Everything else seems to be fine, but could the liner of damaged the wiring? Could I have damaged the BSI or the exciter wiring?
I've tried to hunt down a workshop manual / wiring diagram, but found nothing. Autodata doesn't have much on these either.
I'm yet to try hard wiring the exciter, but that will have to now be after work tomorrow (so long as the van can get me there!).
Any help appreciated!