Alternator

[woots]

My Williams had been stalling on idle recently. Last two days it ran sweet then today I turned it on to give a mate a lift and the battery light started to flicker. When I put the main beams on it cut out dead and wouldnt turn over no central locking etc. The battery was new on Saturday (540 Amp Bosch) and fully charged. Am I going to have to spend the £150 at Nick Hill on a new alternator or could it be anything else such as engine earth lead problems? Where are the engine earth leads, I can see the one near the battery? Cheers for any help.

 

[rwaterman]

My mates alternator has just been replaced his car kept cutting out when he would pull up somewhere and wouldnt start again his battery light was on eventually it wouldnt start at all it when trying to turn it over it just made this alwful clicking noise.

 

[Ben H]

I had my alternator go a month or two ago. Same symptoms.

 

[woots]

Gutted sounds like Im going to have to fork out.