Buying aftermarket battery

[edmscan]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I would have agreed with you 100% on this before my experience with my Yaris (now I would be about 98% in agreement ). I kept my OEM battery until its dying day, literally (and at 138,000+ miles). I wouldn't have made it even another mile. I thought I was going to have to push the car into the bay at Sears (in Texas). 21,000 miles later I had the same symptoms and it tested out to be the alternator (which I assumed it would be). I was in Minnesota, and (coincidentally) Sears had the best available deal.

So are you saying that my alternator is bad ... and it wasn't the battery ? That would really suck .. as well I just got a new battery. The thing is that I drove my car on Saturday (and it was fine, no problems) and on Monday it was dead. I am going to get my alternator (ie charging system) checked later today .. and I will post the results.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by edmscan

So are you saying that my alternator is bad ... and it wasn't the battery ? That would really suck .. as well I just got a new battery. The thing is that I drove my car on Saturday (and it was fine, no problems) and on Monday it was dead. I am going to get my alternator (ie charging system) checked later today .. and I will post the results.

No, I meant that before my experience with my Yaris I would have 100% agreed with Betrivent that your issue is a bad alternator, but that my first experience of the 'alternator like' symptoms ended up being the battery rather than alternator. So, I learned that the symptoms CAN apply to either a battery problem or an alternator problem. Whenever I'd had such symptoms on previous cars, the problem had always been the alternator. When I had the symptoms for the second time on my Yaris (21,000 miles later), the problem was the alternator.