[MR2] Dash lights flash

Kurt Krueger telek2 at att.net
Wed Jan 20 20:46:39 EST 2010


  
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Benn" <benn at sonic.net>
>
> Huh?  Likely just the brushes are worn out...hardly seems a quality issue, 
> unless they wore out at 50k or something.
> Benn

On my MkI's, brushes go somewhere around 100K miles.  I usually go for
a rebuild just because these aren't the easiest thing to get out.
BTW, my '83 Camry went 250K on its alternator brushes.

> 
> > Sure sounds like an intermittently failing Alternator.
> >
> > The alternators on these are not quite up to what you would expect of 
> > Toyota
> > quality...
> 
> 
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