Buy a spare to keep in the car.Several of us have been down this road. In my 84 190D I couldnt get the pulley to align correctly, Fred gave me a junkyard unit that worked perfectly. My '83 240D went through 3 or 4 before I got a good one at which point it needed a new battery. False economy in those... Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: That was the plan, but there was none in stock at the local store. Just got back home. Charger is on the car and now heading out to pull the alternator. Does not look like local store has one either so maybe they can get one to me by tomorrow.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 23, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Why don't you get a replacement alternator and new battery from autozone, > install in parking lot, and continue the trip? > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '87 300TD > '95 E300 > >> On September 23, 2017 1:34:01 PM EDT, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> Yes electronic transmission ac was going etc. I think the headlights >> might have been on as well. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Remember that car does not have a pure mechanical injection pump, so >> there are more loads on the battery, even though it is a diesel. Does >> that car also have the electronic transmission? Was the AC cranking, >> blower motor sucking up electrons? >>> -- >>> Max Dillon >>> Charleston SC >>> '87 300TD >>> '95 E300 >>> >>>> On September 23, 2017 10:22:50 AM EDT, "Kaleb C. Striplin via >> Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> PS batter is only about a year old. Alternator is probably about >> that >>>> old maybe 2 years. Is it possible the alternator was draining the >>>> battery rather than simply not charging? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> So we left at 7 am this morning heading to Branson for the weekend. >>>> About 40 miles into the 3 hour drive all the sudden in the 97 e300 I >>>> get the red battery charge warning. Great. It went off and came back >> on >>>> again so I got off at next exit to head back home. As I'm driving I >> hit >>>> to button to clear and it didn't come back on. So against my better >>>> judgement turned around to continue the trip. Got to Joplin and >> decided >>>> to stop by hf to get a meter to see what the volts actually were. By >>>> the time I got back out to the car had more warning messages up. >>>> Checked volts it was like 11. Car ran a few more minutes then died. >>>> It's now down to like 10.5. How the heck could it have drained that >>>> fast? Last time I had an alternator issue it was in the r320 and it >>>> made a 3 hour trip home before it died. So now I am sitting the >> parking >>>> lot waiting on aaa to show up to haul me home. Trip is cancelled. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
