What car is alternator from?

[big_treacle]

I want to see if my local scrapyard has an alternator for my car. Anyone know (if its a non-TVR part) what car it comes from?
On a R plate 98 Chimaera 400.
Cheers

[rottey]

Range Rover 4.0 or 4.6 1995 on. We sell a brand new unit for £195.

Mike
Austec Racing

[big_treacle]

Thanks, I'll investigate....

[poptosis]

Another bit fallen off your chim Stew ?

[whitechimp500]

Check (or get checked) the fusible link on the o/s chassis rail near the starter motor (in a small oblong casing).
If this goes it mimics a failed alternator - new links are about £1 !

NB ive heard though,that some Chims dont have them - mine did,replaced it and saved about £200 +

[big_treacle]

poptosis said:

Another bit fallen off your chim Stew ?

its started going ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR so I think it needs a new bearing or a new itself. Its off to the doctors tomorrow for a scary MOT so I'll let them diagnose it properly.
100amp fuse died on the way to it's last service so thats all new and no longer "corroded, wet, blown".
Paul, you interested in mahou at the weekend?

[poptosis]

big_treacle said:

Paul, you interested in mahou at the weekend?

Yes indeedee, and 1942 and a hoon and we gotta move that table man. Going surfing in the morning though.

Welcome to come along.

It will be cold.

It will be early.

[rude girl]

big_treacle said:

its started going ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR so I think it needs a new bearing...

Mine cost £40 for a refurb.

[big_treacle]

Well, I broke down last night on the M6 toll road when the bearing finally went - why couldn't the car wait 1 more day when it was booked into the garage?!! I swear they do it deliberately!
Anyway, AA turned up and had a look: "No mate, not your alternator, one of the pully wheels has gone. Can't fix it, we'll have to recover you". So I got low loaded back to dorset (blessing in disguise with the snow maybe?). Had the car taken to the TVR doctors this morning and the verdict? Alternator. Maybe I'll give up on the software business & be a mechanic! Hopefully they'll be able to refurbish it but the bearing may have knackered the unit too much so we'll see......