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Old May 22, 2005 | 11:06 PM
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What do you guys think???

Hey guys gotta Q for ya,My Wife and I were out Sunday afternoon shopping and on our way home my battery light came on,wife looked in our manual to see what it could be,said battery not getting proper connection or the Ploy-V-Belt broke,so i pulled over in a Dollar store parking lot(good idea wife had to go in that place..yuk)but the Belt was fine,so i went to start the car and it barly started,worked fine allday just left a store not 10mins ago and it was fine but now it would barely start and the batter light came on so did the ABS and ASR light plus my AC wasnt blowing strong anymore still cold ac but not a strong,so i had Tow Truck come out and took it to my Mercedes Tech,Wife called Mercedes and the guy said it WAS the altanator and it went out suddenly to replace it and it would be fine,ite gettign fixed tomorrow morning or afternoon but as any1 had this happen and if so is that normal?

btw the Tow Guy LOVED my mercedes and thought it was a Brand New Benz,i smiled and said it was a 94,he couldnt believe it was that old,lol
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Old May 23, 2005 | 04:48 PM
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This is standard in my experience. I have had this happen a couple of times.
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Old May 23, 2005 | 10:16 PM
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Sounds like an alternator, worse case scenario a starter, but i doubt it....
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Old May 24, 2005 | 12:19 AM
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it was the alt,picking up my baby tomorrow total price is aorund $450.00 plus the $138.00 towing bill,ouch...but hey its only money.....::crying::
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