The Roar is back

[Justin]

Just thought I'd let you know about an ongoing problem which has finally been solved. Back in Febuary I had to get my alternator taken out and reconditioned by a local garage, but after the job had been done I noticed my car would no longer rev past about 6000rpm.

After approching loads of people and posting help messages on forums including this one, nobody could figure out what the problem was and the garage who reconed the alternator said it wouldn't be anything to do with what they did.

Eventually I found a Mitsubishi garage in Ireland you had a MUT11 tester and it came up with a fault with the alternator ( code 64 ). I then decided to buy a reconditioned one for U-save ( thanks guys ) and finally got it into the car at the weekend. Hey presto, the car is back to normall !!!. It's great to hear that MIVEC roar again !!.

Over the last couple of months I have learned a lot about alternators, enough to know that if yours has a 4 pin plug and you need to get it repaired, make sure you take it to someone you has the proper equipment to test it cause if they don't the same thing could happen to you. I totally wasted 280 euro getting mine reconed the first time by someone you didn't know what they were doing, I should have went to U-save in the first place. You live and learn !!.

Anyway, thanks to everone supplied usefull advice.

[CJ]

Good stuff Justin, I didn't realise that was your post in Smartgroups. Which garage did you end up using for the MUTII?

Ciaran

[Justin]

The garage was Michael Grant motors in Wicklow town, tel: (0404) 62777