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hi guys...

my alternator has been making some weird noises lately and things just got a bit strange on me.

driving down the fwy and all of a sudden my usually (typical) dull headlights are super white and bright.. my dash lights are equally bright..

i looked at my volt reading on my turbo timer and it was reading like 16volts....

the volts dropped when i was at idle so im thinking my alt is about to pack it in?

my question is 1) is it my alternator dieing? and 2) i need to drive to work tomoro, so will it be ok to drive its not going to catch fire of anything drastic like that is it?

car is a 32 gtst for what its worth..

HELP!!!

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well made it to the mechanics today.. the power steering started to feel heavy and the hicas light started to come on and off too... hope this is only a result of the alt dying, yes? cos id hate to have to fork out for it to be fixed too.... grr

When this happened in my car it was the result of the battery loosing charge, so they took a battery out of another car (working) put it in and it works fine now.

But they could not get the car to fault when they had it apart from the altimeter being a little shaky.

Drew.

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