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    yeah..it's weird. no cel. just the battery light. and yeah...i guess the alternator is prob goin out. its just weird that the idle was hunting..ive never had that happen before when an alternator is goin out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by coreylol
    yeah..it's weird. no cel. just the battery light. and yeah...i guess the alternator is prob goin out. its just weird that the idle was hunting..ive never had that happen before when an alternator is goin out.

    TRUST ME: Having had the Audi die the exact same way, it is very very likely your Alternator. I was driving along one day and let off the gas, came to a stop and battery light popped on. Was freaked out but just kept driving, couple minutes later the battery light went back off and I just forgot about it. three days later I did the same thing, slowing down to stop the battery light popped on and my volts dropped from 14 to 12. I needed to get across Cobb to Acworth from fulton so I just kept driving, when I was on 41 I was down to 9 volts and you could hear my relays clicking as they were running out of juice. It sucked.

    Pull the alt and have it bench tested at slow speeds as well as high. If it checks out it might be wiring.

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