Okay so the other day I’m out, driving around everything is fine. Stop to get ice cream and turn the Jeep off. It won’t turn on. Sounds like it’s a dead battery, okay cool. At first I thought it was no gas but I know if it had no gas it would at least crank. So I got a spare gallon I had in my trunk and put it in there. It turned on, weird. I’m like okay this day might be okay, head home. On the way home the lights on the dash start to dim. My radio is off the entire time. My horn barely works. Thinking it needed more gas I rushed to a gas station turned it off and put more gas in it. Nothing, had someone jump start me, it turned on but I knew it would die soon, rushed my ass home and it turned off in the driveway. I didn’t mess with it after that.. Next morning my dad checks it out and says it’s the alternator okay so I go get a used one from a junk yard just to get me going for the next few weeks. Me and my dad replace it, still nothing. Then my dad is like it’s the battery, at this point I wanna tell my dad “are you serious” go to autozone and get a new battery. Pop it in, it starts. The gauge however would stay at 12 and then drop to 9 a few minutes later. I drove it 150 miles that day and then when I was getting home it started dying. I noticed when I put the new battery in it would have a slow crank.
My Jeep is a 2000 Wrangler 4.0
What should I do now, I don’t want to take it to a shop and replace the alternator when I could do it myself. My question is how would I know if it’s the alternator because I can believe that both alternators suck but the battery is brand new.
My Jeep is a 2000 Wrangler 4.0
What should I do now, I don’t want to take it to a shop and replace the alternator when I could do it myself. My question is how would I know if it’s the alternator because I can believe that both alternators suck but the battery is brand new.