Alternator & Fuel pump failures
Discussion
essexstu said:
certainly a thread of interest and I know for a fact that people at Alpine DO read posts on this forum. I was told that Alpine of course monitor any failures and when it become evident there is a common fault then parts are replaced under recall which is what has happened with some of the fuel pumps. Mine was replaced under recall at its first service (PE 2021 but made in 2020)
The alternator issue will no doubt be the same if enough go wrong but the around 1% fail rate seems to be growing to 2% at the moment given the 730 registered (how many left) so still relatively rare? 996/997 had cylinder scoring issues in the 2000s with an estimated 10% suffering but Porsche certainly did no recall to fix the issue.
Except…there are only about 50 Alpine owners using this forum so the failure rate is quite high looking at that small cross-section.The alternator issue will no doubt be the same if enough go wrong but the around 1% fail rate seems to be growing to 2% at the moment given the 730 registered (how many left) so still relatively rare? 996/997 had cylinder scoring issues in the 2000s with an estimated 10% suffering but Porsche certainly did no recall to fix the issue.
It would be useful if telematics could be upgraded to include battery voltage and a warning of alternator failure /no charging (given the older stuff can do this) given a reasonable distance can be driven after the alternator dies and when the battery does go flat the car goest straight into limp…wherever you are…including joining a busy roundabout…
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