Alternators

Like any other car or truck on the road, a Volkswagen won't run well without a quality alternator. These sturdy DC generators provide the juice that your vehicle's spark plugs, ignition coils and accessories need to operate. Without them, your VW would pretty much be stranded in the driveway.

If the battery light on your gauge cluster appears, there's a 90% chance that a faulty alternator is the cause. Other symptoms of a failing alternator include malfunctioning radios, dials that won't work and weak headlight output. Generally speaking, alternators tend to fail quickly without a lot of advance notice.

Failure to swap a defective alternator for a new or re-manufactured unit will eventually render your Volkswagen dead in the water. That's because every electrical component in your car or SUV runs off of the alternator's current. The battery is merely used to get a Volkswagen started from a dead stop.

As one of the most important parts in your Volkswagen, an alternator isn't a good place to cut corners by buying cheap hardware. If you don't opt for a genuine OEM Volkswagen alternator, the odds that you'll have to replace it again in the next year or two increase substantially.

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