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Originally Posted by growe58
You have the 4 cylinder engine? Look at the front of the engine (passenger side). You will see two belts. The front one is for the power steering and a/c and the rear one is for the alternator. The alternator is towards the back of the engine compartment and is no fun at all to replace.
How sure are you that the alternator is faulty? Is the problem an internal short that drains the battery overnight? We talked about this before - as a short term stop gap solution, you could disconnect the negative battery terminal when the car is off and then it won't discharge overnight.
Avenger alternators are pricey and somewhat difficult to replace. I don't want to see you go to the cost and trouble for nothing. Just be sure that IS the problem.
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Thank you for posting this...well I took my car to have a Electrical Dynostic Test on it...and good thing I did.
my alternator would of run me about 500 and didn't want to spend that much. Well at least the good thing it is not my alternator...on the other hand the guy that did the test said something was draining my battery through the electrical system. He couldn't tell me for sure because he does not specialize in that area.
It may be the factory car alarm I had cut out because I never got a keyless remote entry for it. I'm not sure. It could be the whole system and have one bad wire...I dunno. At least I know it is electrical, before I started spending money to fix something that is not broken.
I have no idea what it could be.
I have a 99' avenger 2.5 V6
if anyone might have any clue to what it is...I am just going to have to take it to have the whole computer system looked at.
Oh I know as of talking before hand...I did ask them about some lights staying on as a possibilty, but he told me that it wasn't any interior lights staying on over night as far as he could see...I don't know if that will help or not.