Why do these things fail all the time and why are they so fucking expensive?
How is this any harder to make than the motor off a $50 drill press?
Fuck alternators
Angel Rivera
Nathan Walker
>yfw it isn't actually the stator and rotor itself that are expensive and unreliable, but the rectifier
Asher Hill
>fail all the time
???
Brayden Thompson
If you didn't drive a piece of shit it wouldn't happen.
William Myers
>complains about alternators
>post picture of a turbo
Seriously Family KYS
Nicholas Murphy
This. What's even worse, that in many cases the parts actually cost peanuts, but is mounted in a contraption where you cant just replace the electronics.
Lincoln Richardson
The bearings blew up on my alternator.
Toyota quoted me $450 for a new one
Part source $265 for a rebuilt
A local store manned by poo in loo quoted me $110 for who knows what
There's a auto wrecker nearby, should I even bother calling them?
Blake Brown
That's a turbo you big dummy
Colton Wright
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James Hughes
>30 year old alternator breaks after decades and miles of use
>It lived a long and hard life
>gets replaced by a $30 Autozone piece of shit
>breaks
>warranty it for the same piece of shit again
>breaks
>load up Veeky Forums
>Why do these things fail all the time and why are they so fucking expensive?