Symptoms Of A Bad Alternator
The most common symptom of a bad alternator are:
- 1
The Charge Light (also known as the Battery Light) will be shining nice and bright on your instrument cluster.
- 2
Whenever you turn on the headlights (night driving), they glow very dim.
- 3
The car won't crank, but when someone helps you to jump start it, your Honda vehicle easily starts.
- 4
You have to constantly charge the battery or get jump starts after which the vehicle only runs for a few minutes and stalls.
Related Test Articles
Honda vehicles are some of the easiest vehicles to work on, I know, my brother has owned one since 1991 (with 300,000 miles on the original engine and transaxle and still running great!) and I've worked on it quite a bit (in all fairness it's all been mostly maintenance) and not to mention that I also work on them as a professional automotive repair technician. If you want to see/read some of the other articles I've written about these cars in this web site, you can click here: 2.2L, 2.3L Index of Honda Test Articles.
Here's a sample of the articles you'll find in the index of tutorials:
- How To Troubleshoot A No Start (Honda 2.2L, 2.3L).
- How To Test The Starter -Step By Step (Honda 2.2L, 2.3L).
- How To Test A Misfire Condition (Honda 2.2L, 2.3L).
- How To Test For A Broken Timing Belt (Honda 2.2L, 2.3L).
- How To Test The Ignition System -Honda 2.2 and 2.3L 4 cylinder engines (at: easyautodiagnostics.com).
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