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97' 850 GLT dashboard lights remain on after starting 850 1997

posted by  850 owner on  Sun Apr 4 09:52 CST 2004
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Definitely a bad alternator. Due to the design of the electric system, all those lights go on if there isn't sufficent charge. How do I know this? I still have the old accessory belt in my 850, and it's known to not to have enough tension on the pulleys as the new 850 belt design (and new belt routing). So whenever I drive over puddles, and am sitting at idle, all those lights flicker for a bit, so I know the alternator's not spinning up to speed at idle in those extreme conditions. My explanations may sound a little scatterbrained, but hopefully it's understandable.
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New 1 97' 850 GLT dashboard lights remain on after starting [850][1997]
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