Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!prophet From: prophet@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dennis Gibbs) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Mopar Alternators Message-ID: <3074@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:48:27 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.3074 Posted: Thu Feb 7 12:48:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:54:04 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 29 <> From stekas@hou2g.UUCP (Jim Stekas): >My wife owns a '78 Plymouth Horizon. One of it's more irritating >problems is the rate at which it goes through alternators. After >going through several rebuilt alternators, I have become convinced >that there is a pathalogical flaw in either the field of stator >coil design. The reason for this conclusion is that the odds of >getting a working alternator from a rebuild shop is about 30%. >New regulators and brushes just don't seem to be enough. Anyone >out there have the same problem? My family owns a 1982 Plymouth Reliant. It has less than 20,000 miles on it, and it is on its third alternator, and its second voltage regulator. All the Chrysler products we have had have had electrical problems. What's worse is that I still don't think that the electrical system on our Reliant is right, the lights seem to flicker a lot..... Dennis -- Call-Me: Dennis Gibbs, Univ. of Md. Comp. Sci. Center. UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!prophet CSNet: prophet@umcp-cs BITNET: GIBBS@UMDB ARPA: prophet@Maryland