Red battery light flickers on at high revs??
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Two obvious thoughts:
1) the fan belt might be slack, causing it to slip at higher revs (check the fanbelt).
2) the voltage regulator on the alternator might be faulty, causing it to be overcharging at higher revs. (buy yourself a multimeter or a Gunson's 'start and check' battery meter - they aren't expensive - and check that the voltage doesn't rise above about 15V when you rev the engine)
Other alternatives are that the alterator is
ed, the instruments/ECU have had a nervous breakdown, or there is a loose wire somewhere, but check the above first.
1) the fan belt might be slack, causing it to slip at higher revs (check the fanbelt).
2) the voltage regulator on the alternator might be faulty, causing it to be overcharging at higher revs. (buy yourself a multimeter or a Gunson's 'start and check' battery meter - they aren't expensive - and check that the voltage doesn't rise above about 15V when you rev the engine)
Other alternatives are that the alterator is
ed, the instruments/ECU have had a nervous breakdown, or there is a loose wire somewhere, but check the above first. 
Ok battery should be fine, its taking charge.
Used a multimeter acrosss it and revv'ed engine and got no increase at all so alternator is deffo up it (or the belt is very loose / gone).
Anyone recommend somewhere near/around Hertfordshire to get the job done for me?
Ideally somewhere cheaper than Lotus themselves but not just any old place
Also any idea on cost?
Thanks
Used a multimeter acrosss it and revv'ed engine and got no increase at all so alternator is deffo up it (or the belt is very loose / gone).
Anyone recommend somewhere near/around Hertfordshire to get the job done for me?
Ideally somewhere cheaper than Lotus themselves but not just any old place
Also any idea on cost?
Thanks
Out of interest what model Elise do you have? Only that my alternator was replaced by Lotus under warranty at it's service last month. I was told that Lotus were aware of premature wear and failure on them. Mine was starting to become noisy they told me. Not that I'd noticed. Mine's a 2002 111S.
Cheers!
Cheers!
UH-Matt said:
Just found I have 3 days left on my warranty so im sorted, just need to try and get through to this insurance company before wednesday
Matt, this is what happened when my S1 started going funny and then stopped.
Try resetting the intertia switch, if that doesnt work get a decent auto-electrician to check all the fuses and relays.
Best of luck, it'll get better soon
!
Martin_S said:
Yep, undertray off, which is a fag.
Unless the S2 is radically different from the S1 (which it isn't) you need to remove the alt from the wheel arch, which needs the wheel arch liner removed . . .
That is unless you've found a way of removing the alt that nobody else has ?
Fd
S Works said:
Try resetting the intertia switch, if that doesnt work get a decent auto-electrician to check all the fuses and relays.
If the inertia switch had popped then it would never start (yes you can get wiring problems around them, seen it loads of times), but coupled with the lack of charge indication light . . . that kinda rules out the inertia swicth ?
Fd
fergusd said:
Yep, undertray off, which is a fag.
Unless the S2 is radically different from the S1 (which it isn't) you need to remove the alt from the wheel arch, which needs the wheel arch liner removed . . .
That is unless you've found a way of removing the alt that nobody else has ?
Fd
I must have, then! Only had it out, once, but it cam out the bottom. Oil filter was off at the time, mind you, and it was still a sod of a job - obviously I was doing it the hard way!
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