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Alternator fitting on drive



AIRBORNEGOD

AIRBORNEGOD

  Clio sport 182 RB
Hi, been a while since I’ve been on here.

Is there anyone in the West Yorkshire area on here who can fit a new alternator to my 182? I’m from near pontefract

I have the part but just wondered if someone could come do it rather than getting it picked up. Last time I had it picked up they cracked my splitter.

thanks
 
Clio_fool

Clio_fool

ClioSport Club Member
Easy enough job to do mate, I had to do mine last year. Hardest part was wriggling it out through the available gap. I think there's a guide on here?
 
Gus

Gus

ClioSport Moderator
  182Turbo,DCi90
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Fitting a new alternator - 182

I think mine's borked as it smells of burning and my headlights keep randomly turning off. Can get a new one from GSF for about £90 by the looks of it. On a trade basis where I give them the broken one. I understand that to fit it, I'd need to remove the aux belt? Does that mean I'd need...
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Robbie Corbett

Robbie Corbett

ClioSport Club Member
Its very easy mate.

Think Jubilee is 100mm (Can check if you need).

I have done this recently and again yesterday while fitting a power steering pump (which is more of a c**t).

1) Open bonnet, remove bumper and slam panel 13mm socket for slam panel, 10mm for bonnet catch, 13mm spanner for two lower bolts which do not need to be removed just loosened, pull slam panel out and throw on grass
2) put said Jubilee around tensioner spring:

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3) remove either pos or neg battery terminal
4) gingerly disconnect large red cable from alternator and unplug sense wire
5) Undo top alternator bolt/nut (can be seen in picture above) 13mm socket each side
6) slacken off lower long bolt
7) Knock alternator down and remove belt from pulley
8) remove lower long bolt
9) wiggle that s**t out

Putting it back together is easy, just watch that the aux belt hasn't slipped half off another pulley.

10) live happily ever after knowing you did a top job like a real man.

Good luck


Access is very good with bumper and slam panel off - you may need to undo the mounting point for one of the AC lines (10mm above drivers headlight) my headlight is only out as I was actually doing the PS pump here:

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AIRBORNEGOD

AIRBORNEGOD

  Clio sport 182 RB
So this is what I’ve found when I took the old alternator out

doesn’t look good even with my little knowledge
 

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cp1991

ClioSport Club Member
  clio 197
Yeah if it's definitely that it shouldn't cause any other issues. If the tensioner is already a couple of years old though, it's the perfect time to replace it.
 
AIRBORNEGOD

AIRBORNEGOD

  Clio sport 182 RB
Yeah! It was never on there. I had my AUX belt done at DDC last year and they never mentioned it. The alternator was rattling around when I had a look
 
Robbie Corbett

Robbie Corbett

ClioSport Club Member
Or just buy a lower alternator bolt:

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Aux tensioner top bolt sheared

Hi again, Second day of this odyssey, and I'm getting almost to a point where I can actually start looking at the timing belt. The crank pulley and lower timing belt covers are the only obstacles in that regard. I'm ignoring the elephant in the room of the water pump. Access really is tight! I'm...
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Wang it in and move on with life. If they were going to pick the car up and sort it then thats different but getting the car to them sounds like agg.

Someone here might be able to give you length and thread info so you can order the bolt from a general supplier. Sadly mine is back together and Im not stripping to down for a 4th time to measure the bolt - soz 🤣
 
AIRBORNEGOD

AIRBORNEGOD

  Clio sport 182 RB
Im just going to drive it without the long bolt in to DDC. Should be fine without it in for a 30 minute drive?
 
K

Kieran..

  BlackGold 182
Hi guys struggling to get the tensioner to loosen up enough for belt.

I have got the belt off was a bit of a struggle but putting belt back on is way tight.

Any ideas
 
K

Kieran..

  BlackGold 182
JamesBryan said:
Have you compressed it with a big jubilee?
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Well I thought I had, it kept slipping off but in the end I got it but the jubilee wouldnt do up any more and seemed like it was skipping rather than tightening.

It wasnt a real jubilee clip was an unbranded make. Maybe it wasnt up to the job? It was 70mm - 120mm but seemed to big.

I have ordered a real jubilee clip that's 85mm -100mm
 
JamesBryan

JamesBryan

ClioSport Club Member
Kieran.. said:
Well I thought I had, it kept slipping off but in the end I got it but the jubilee wouldnt do up any more and seemed like it was skipping rather than tightening.

It wasnt a real jubilee clip was an unbranded make. Maybe it wasnt up to the job? It was 70mm - 120mm but seemed to big.

I have ordered a real jubilee clip that's 85mm -100mm
Click to expand...

A decent quality one should do the job.
 
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