I still don't buy it. 5000 miles of 2 mile trips is only 2500 journeys, some of which might not even last 5mins. 500,000 miles of 100 mile trips is 5000 journeys. In all likelihood, the car with 500k on the clock will have spent more time being driven at low temperature than the car with 5k on the clock. And that is really taking things to extremes, assuming the cars never do longer than 2 miles or less than 100 respectively which is basically never going to happen.
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I still don't buy it. 5000 miles of 2 mile trips is only 2500 journeys, some of which might not even last 5mins. 500,000 miles of 100 mile trips is 5000 journeys. In all likelihood, the car with 500k on the clock will have spent more time being driven at low temperature than the car with 5k on the clock. And that is really taking things to extremes, assuming the cars never do longer than 2 miles or less than 100 respectively which is basically never going to happen.
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£1k for that? Jesus!
Impressive mileage (and no surprise its an old school Volvo!) but how he thinks that's a £1k car I'll never know.
You bought a brand new genuine alternator for a £650 Volvo? Should have been a £40 second hand from eBay jobbie! lol
Sounds like a good deal so far though. Aside from that.
My logic (for once!) in buying a new alternator has proved sound, my nice shiny new alternator has decided to burn out its bushes, back to the garage and they are replacing it and the belt free of charge.
Relieved I hadn't bothered with sourcing a cheaper one from ECP ,GSF or a scrappy, I'd have a nice bill for removal and refitting otherwise.
