flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
I've got a 2001 Volvo S60 T5, and on the way home the other night I got "electrical system service required" on screen and the battery light came on.
I figured I had a bad alternator, but got a rather unexpected result when I went to test it: It's working, on and off, in a very regular rhythm. It works for about a second, cuts out for about a second, and continues that pattern. (If anything, it works for slightly less time than it doesn't work on each cycle, but the times are fairly close and the cycle takes a couple seconds or so).
FWIW, engine RPM doesn't seem to have any effect on it.
What could be causing this?
Thanks,
Kent
I figured I had a bad alternator, but got a rather unexpected result when I went to test it: It's working, on and off, in a very regular rhythm. It works for about a second, cuts out for about a second, and continues that pattern. (If anything, it works for slightly less time than it doesn't work on each cycle, but the times are fairly close and the cycle takes a couple seconds or so).
FWIW, engine RPM doesn't seem to have any effect on it.
What could be causing this?
Thanks,
Kent