My alternator died last Christmas week. My indie sent it to a re-furb specialist but they said it was beyond repair. The main BMW dealers had no alternator in stock (there are no spurious ones for this car) and I was without the car for whole Christmas waiting for a shipment from the UK. Cost me Eur1000 for the parts and labour and a mate hooked me up with the loan of a 7 seater mitsubishi for the week.

You might have been a tad previous in doing the replacement without first determining what the exact fault was since your charger indicated good and the warning light went out (it might have been as simple as a bad power or ground connection or the voltage regulator - or even a loose drive belt!). All irrelevent now of course. How much did he charge?

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Cheers, Brian

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2001 X5 4.4i Sport
Black Sapphire, Hi Gloss Shadowline, Full Privacy Glass.
Too Cool for Jack Bauer