creationtwentytwo
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Hi there,
My girlfriends 02 Seicento Sporting has been making a mild grinding/rattling sound (difficult to describe) over the past week or so and I'm not sure what it could be.
It doesn't increase simultaneously with rpm, although it does appear to be worse at higher speed. It doesn't seem consistent with engine revs at all though.
I had a listen under the bonnet and as much as I can tell, it sounds like it's coming from the alternator.
First thing I thought was alternator bearings, could this be it? Or is it likely something else?
The alternator is obviously working fine as I ran the battery flat a week or so ago while installing a CD player and playing around with it for too long without the engine running and 5 minutes after a jump start, it was back to normal, and had no probs whatsoever since then.
If it is the alternator, how soon should it be looked at? We were gonna be driving it about 150 miles at the weekend but if that's a bad idea then we probably wont!
Many thanks
My girlfriends 02 Seicento Sporting has been making a mild grinding/rattling sound (difficult to describe) over the past week or so and I'm not sure what it could be.
It doesn't increase simultaneously with rpm, although it does appear to be worse at higher speed. It doesn't seem consistent with engine revs at all though.
I had a listen under the bonnet and as much as I can tell, it sounds like it's coming from the alternator.
First thing I thought was alternator bearings, could this be it? Or is it likely something else?
The alternator is obviously working fine as I ran the battery flat a week or so ago while installing a CD player and playing around with it for too long without the engine running and 5 minutes after a jump start, it was back to normal, and had no probs whatsoever since then.
If it is the alternator, how soon should it be looked at? We were gonna be driving it about 150 miles at the weekend but if that's a bad idea then we probably wont!
Many thanks