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Electrical failure Thoughts? C70 1991

posted by  MikeBel on  Sat Feb 24 04:30 CST 2007
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I was driving and my battery light came on. I was about 40 miles from home. About 15 miles to go and all the warning lights came on and the car died; no juice. It did restart but barely made it home. In the driveway the battery is totally dead. I'm thinking alternator, but does anyone have a beetr idea? If it's the alternator I'll have to find a mechanic; not sure I want to tackle that job without a service manual.

Thanks for the help.








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    Electrical failure Thoughts? 850 1995

    posted by  HO on  Tue Feb 27 07:54 CST 2007
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    I had the same problem with my 855 last year. I also was about 40 miles from home. The battery light came on after I started the car at work's parking lot. All the lights came ON during the last 10 miles especially TRACS and ABS. Gradually, speedometer not working, tachometer not working. Only the fuel gauage and temperature gauage were barely working, UP arrow came on, tranny was jerking. At the last 2 miles, emergency light was not working neither. I had to pull over and waited for a while to restart the car to slowly drive home .

    Alternator was dead so as the battery (drained all the way for 40 miles). I bought both alternator and battery from dealer and replaced them myself. Not too difficult for 850 wagon. I don't know how difficult to replace it in C70.

    Ching-Ho Cheng
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    1995 855 NA, Bilstein Strut & Shocks, Volvo Protective Grill, K&N Filter, E-Code Lens, ClearCorner Light, Alpine CD-Changer, AutoDim RearView Mirror, 6000K HID







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