Rather than sell you some mystery "rebuilt" alternator, for $70 they will rebuild yours. For another $60, they will remove and re-install. They took all of two hours to do my alternator. New bearings, new brushes, turned commutator. Clean and shiny now. One year warranty. For those in Southern California, I highly recommend them. (They may take mail ins, I don't know.)

No relationship to them except as a happy customer.

FWIW

Independent Auto Electric shops will Rebuild your existing Alt. I have had mine rebuilt by my local shop, alts in a couple of the Volvo's I've owned over the years. Even from the WayBack BeforeInternet, when the shop had on the shelf, the super secret Wholesale to rebuilder shops Only Catalog of PARTS.

If you estab a relationship with an Independent shop, they will tell you what's the next thing in your Alt that will need replacement.

These days if you know what you are doing the parts are on the Internet and not so supersecret.

https://www.aspwholesale.com/index.php

http://www.wagneralt.com/

Perhaps shops rebuilding alternators was more common in the past. In any event, in all of greater Los Angeles, this was the only shop I found that would do so rather than sell rebuilds.

Dear U.S. Diver,

Hope you're well. As Los Angeles is a huge place, your survey's results are weighty. The scarcity of shops that do basic re-build work has to do with: (a) the skills required; (b) the workers' efficiency.

Those, who do this work, are very skilled and so not "cheap dates". But if they're very efficient, they can still compete with factory-rebuilt items.

Further, there are some, who will pay a premium for "local" service done promptly and expertly. A factory-rebuilt item may be fine. But if it is not, it has to be returned, which is time-consuming and so costly.

In short, this Los Angeles outfit will do well because they can draw on a huge market area.

If they are willing to ship, they should make that known.

The Volvo 940 Nippon Denso alternator fits into a USPS medium flat-rate box. That box - with a weight up to 70 pounds - will be delivered to any US address for about $14 in postage.

Anyone can set-up an on-line account with the USPS and get USPS shipping boxes free-of-charge via on-line order. Postage-paid box labels can be downloaded from the USPS website and the box handed to a USPS Letter Carrier. So, there's no need to go to the Post Office.

Most USPS flat-rate boxes are delivered within three days of mailing. That's hard to beat, as UPS Ground or FedEx Ground require 5-6 days for a cross-country shipment.

Hope this helps.

Yours faithfully,

Spook