On Mon, December 17, 2007 2:41 pm, dooger watts wrote: > > By then of course, someone else has come along and given them a jump and > they're on their way, giving me the wary look. Then in a matter of > weeks or a month or two if they're lucky (and with no apparent > connection to the previous incident), their alternator/generator gives > out from overwork at having to charge a dead battery. > > New batt: 40 bux; new alternator: 200 bux. Not much of a decision > there.
"The plural of anecdote not is not data" and all that, but this has never happened to me. And I used to run down batteries like no one's business[1]. Which leads me to the obvious conclusion that Hondas must have massively overbuilt alternators. heh. -ajb [1] The combination of a defective light buzzer, cold weather and youthful haste can be deadly on a car battery. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
