My 318iS' regulator took a crap not too long ago. I'd say about 2 months ago?
Stuck on the side of the road I got a ride to pick up a spare alternator I had and put in a used voltage regulator. Since it fixed it well enough, I figured I'd keep driving. As far as I'm concerned, I don't see these things going bad often anyways. Plus the one I put in looked to be in very good shape.
Now today I get stuck on the side of the road with the same symptom (CEL light, radio shut off, etc) again. My dumbass decided to pull over and turn the engine off at the first sight of it, so obviously getting the car running again turned out to be quite the entertaining sight to the traffic passing by.
Anywho, I barely made it home, and before I go buying a new regulator, I want to know if there's anything I should look out for that might be causing the regulator to wear out prematurely.
Thanks,
Erick
Stuck on the side of the road I got a ride to pick up a spare alternator I had and put in a used voltage regulator. Since it fixed it well enough, I figured I'd keep driving. As far as I'm concerned, I don't see these things going bad often anyways. Plus the one I put in looked to be in very good shape.
Now today I get stuck on the side of the road with the same symptom (CEL light, radio shut off, etc) again. My dumbass decided to pull over and turn the engine off at the first sight of it, so obviously getting the car running again turned out to be quite the entertaining sight to the traffic passing by.
Anywho, I barely made it home, and before I go buying a new regulator, I want to know if there's anything I should look out for that might be causing the regulator to wear out prematurely.
Thanks,
Erick
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