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How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 3:26 pm
by 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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Re: How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 5:23 pm
by KurtG
That’s not bad for a Land Rover part [emoji1303][emoji38]
Re: How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 5:48 pm
by Johannes
Why did you remove it ??
Re: How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 5:49 pm
by Johannes
Re: How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:29 pm
by Crips
Johannes wrote: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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Re: How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 8:12 pm
by BushWacker
Crips wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 3:26 pm
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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Re: How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:13 pm
by 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
Re: How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 2:45 pm
by 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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Re: How long should a alternator last?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:59 pm
by KurtG
Grips, Chris’s reference point is vehicles manufactured in Solihull. Not Japan [emoji51].
Give him a break
