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Originally Posted by Scrippy
Replaced my battery maybe a year ago and coded it in. Two weeks ago I got battery discharge warning and my car lost power. AAA jumped me and I dropped it off at the dealer. "Nothing wrong but we coded your battery again for you". A week later and same discharge issue. This time my dealer is replacing my alternator as they say it's dying. Seems like turning the car off for a couple minutes and restarting the alternator kicks in again until it dies because in my case 179,000. Just food for thought OP.
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Do you know how they diagnosed it to be alternator if the alternator would work fine when you start the car (You can see that when Battery voltage goes up after starting the car)?