[geeks] i'm embarassed to be asking but....

Kris Kirby kris at catonic.net
Tue Jan 21 01:57:06 CST 2003


On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:
>    Car juice should *not* go anywhere near 18V.  Car is broken.

He isn't lying; you've lost your alternator or the voltage regulator. My
Sentra lost it's regulator; it froze wide open. 13V at idle, 19V at 4KRPM.

Suprizingly, everything survived this for two weeks until I got a
replacement. Kudos to the Japanese.

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