How long should a alternator last?

[Crips]

So how long do you estimate a alternator should last?

I just removed this one from the RR.

Manufacture date was week 25 of 1995.

That's a full 23years!!!


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[KurtG]

That’s not bad for a Land Rover part [emoji1303][emoji38]

[Johannes]

Why did you remove it ??

[Johannes]

That’s not bad for a Land Rover part [emoji1303][emoji38]

Bit longer than both your Pajero's together

[Crips]

Why did you remove it ??

It was making fireworks, complete and utterly fffff... broken.
When removed you can turn it by hand a few times and then it locks, lots of grinding noises and bits of metal falling out

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[BushWacker]

So how long do you estimate a alternator should last?

I just removed this one from the RR.

Manufacture date was week 25 of 1995.

That's a full 23years!!!

...

... well you making me a might nervous ...
my ( TD5 ) one is still going strong at 16 years
... though I now carry a
2nd hand replacement on long trips.

My 1975 S3 one was rebuilt lat year ...
my 1981 RR Classic one is however still strong ... !

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[ThysleRoux]

I have never had to replace an alternator due to the actual alternator failing. I have replaced the one in my mother's Frontier with a rebuilt unit, due to the vacuum pump, attached to the back, packing up. Just another reason to hate diesel engines

[grips]

Alternators can last forever. Had a Mazda 2.2 pickup that did 1 million km's. Some way around 500k km did replace bearings and brushes and then again just past
900k km.
Cannot remember touching a modern alternator before 300k km

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[KurtG]

Grips, Chris’s reference point is vehicles manufactured in Solihull. Not Japan [emoji51].

Give him a break