had this symptom on my partners car - been to the garage - associated problems are - lack of power - radio comes on at will & rear wiper goes bonkers -printed off your suggestions & showed to the garage - they confirm its the voltage regulator - but there is only 1 new one in the country and no alternators - unfortunately the battery has spilt acid due to the overcharging and there is damage to the paintwork cos of this - so beware if it happens to you...

Were they a skoda dealer? Someone must have some alternators, call some local motorfactors (look in the yellow pages). Or try Jorily skoda on ebay, he might be able to source the parts

Battery acid can be nasty stuff, wash it off with a tonne of water.

Yup, Jorily usually can provide Felicia parts:

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ta for the advice - its my local garage and his supplier is out of parts... will have to test the ECU after the new parts are fitted incase its toasted

Hi

You tend to find it is not the whole alternator , but the voltage regualtor

It is overcharging

You will get funny smells too

The reg is only approx £25 and you can get them from Butts Of Bawtry

Dont go ott on the full thing just to help getting a quick one

Sarah

Jorily on ebay should be able to get one

thnx for advice again - it was just the voltage regulatoi & the ECU is not fried - but the garage found the car (1.3 Mpi LXi 1999 T reg) has 90 ampere alternator fitted and its the original factory one... bit big dont you think...

They usually range between 70 and 90amp, depends on model.