I bought & installed an auto zone alternator ... bad right out of box.
Drove out west and replaced it on the trip after dead battery. Came home and I went to auto zone and wanted my money back since it was bad and i had already bought one from napa. After much discussion ... they folded and gave me a gift card.
What the bad one did was weird. The battery light would come on and if I was running headlights it didn't put out enough voltage to keep battery charged. Only way we figured it out was by turning on headlights at idle and measuring voltage.
I'm a firm believer in not buying rebuilt crap alternators like lot of people say
CORRECTION: its was Advance Auto, not AutoZone
Drove out west and replaced it on the trip after dead battery. Came home and I went to auto zone and wanted my money back since it was bad and i had already bought one from napa. After much discussion ... they folded and gave me a gift card.
What the bad one did was weird. The battery light would come on and if I was running headlights it didn't put out enough voltage to keep battery charged. Only way we figured it out was by turning on headlights at idle and measuring voltage.
I'm a firm believer in not buying rebuilt crap alternators like lot of people say
CORRECTION: its was Advance Auto, not AutoZone
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