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Automobile maintenance and repair... Alternator....Please help?

Feb 21, 2011 by Lum | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

Car maintanance question... alterntor question HELP!!?
I left work today and my car wouldn't start...i got a jump and drove home I only live about five minutes from work...i sat in the drive way only about five minutes thinking the battery had

Somehow you need to get that battery charged. Even if you get it jump started, an alternator wasn't designed to re charge a battery that is mostly discharged. It could cause the alternator to burn out. It won't re charge just by sitting overnight unless

Daniel B | Feb 21, 2011

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