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My batter light came on in my mp5 2002 last night, and then would not start after some shopping. I then got a jump and noticed my lights were dim and interior lights were fading. So I ran to sears and had them install a weather handler gold. After they ran a diagnostic, they showed me the results showing that the Alternator was not functioning properly and that in fact instead of the normal 14 point something amps that my car should be putting out, my alternator was pushing out somewhere in the vicinity of 18 amps. I decided that by the time most of u read this I will be at the Mazda service center early in the morning to get this looked at.
Side note: On the way home with new batter and now informed that the alternator was functioning a little high, I noticed that my headlights were bright as hell, (In a damn good way,) they looked as if I had my high beams on or HID installed, and my interior lights were reddish/oragne as hell, of course HELL signifying, more than usual. So after doing a search on this forum, i see that a few people opted to upgrade their alternator to Ford's or others and commented how this may provide louder speakers?
My question is if you can upgrade to a more powerful? alternator, will this keep dash lights on and prone to fail diagnostics? and if it can be safely done, is brighter lights a normal acceptable side effect? and will this shorten the life of headlights ?
please respond, I am going to dealer in AM...
thx
e74
My batter light came on in my mp5 2002 last night, and then would not start after some shopping. I then got a jump and noticed my lights were dim and interior lights were fading. So I ran to sears and had them install a weather handler gold. After they ran a diagnostic, they showed me the results showing that the Alternator was not functioning properly and that in fact instead of the normal 14 point something amps that my car should be putting out, my alternator was pushing out somewhere in the vicinity of 18 amps. I decided that by the time most of u read this I will be at the Mazda service center early in the morning to get this looked at.
Side note: On the way home with new batter and now informed that the alternator was functioning a little high, I noticed that my headlights were bright as hell, (In a damn good way,) they looked as if I had my high beams on or HID installed, and my interior lights were reddish/oragne as hell, of course HELL signifying, more than usual. So after doing a search on this forum, i see that a few people opted to upgrade their alternator to Ford's or others and commented how this may provide louder speakers?
My question is if you can upgrade to a more powerful? alternator, will this keep dash lights on and prone to fail diagnostics? and if it can be safely done, is brighter lights a normal acceptable side effect? and will this shorten the life of headlights ?
please respond, I am going to dealer in AM...
thx
e74