Okay some of you may remember me posting a while back regarding my alternator going out, I didn't have the money to buy a new one so I took it to a shop to have rebuilt.
Long story short I ended up having to take it back to them on 3 separate occasions because the alternator was still not properly charging. Finally I got fed up and took it to another electronics rebuilder who my father knows personally. He took it apart and turns out they never replaced the original regulator. He ordered one and put it in. Well today I got the now rebuilt alternator back in the car.
I crank it up and immediately have a rough idle with blips on the rpms. I think no big deal its been sitting and im a little low on fuel so I take it up the road and it is still not running right, no power, idle wont hold consistent. When I came to a stop the car completely died on me (never done this before entire 4 years I've owned it. I crank it back up and make it to the nearest gas station and put some gas in it.
Still doesn't resolve the issue so I brought it back home. Whats weird is that the car was running perfectly fine before even when I was having trouble with the alternator charging in the first place but now it has a completely random poor idle with the motor dying (has happened 7 times tonight). I took everything back apart to see if I didn't hook something back up but everything is how it should be.
My question is if this new alternator is not charging correctly will it make the car behave this way? The red light hasnt come back on but it's still jumping around with voltage according to the OBC. Most of the time charging at 13.9 but sometimes dropping down to low 12's but the light doesn't come on.
I'm completely at a loss as to whats going on with this thing any help would be greatly appreciated!