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<blockquote data-quote="mastershake575" data-source="post: 8786831" data-attributes="member: 665251"><p>Alot of cars from 2010 onwards have voltage regulators, it's unfortunate for car audio purposes (lower voltage) but the manufactuers do it so they can pad there MPG rating.</p><p></p><p>Reason why alot of those alts you were looking at are $350+ is because they do way better amperage at idle, they actually use upgraded bearings which is what you need with a smaller pulley, and some of them even bypass the voltage regulator (usually the common trick is the more expensive alternators will come with a harness that has a resistor wire, the restitor will basically trick the power controll module into thinking that the alternator always needs a max load so the alternator will run at full tilt at all times).</p><p></p><p>Seems like you found a way to manually bypass the PCM (wording towards the end was confusing but i'm assuming that's what you did, it's usually either removing a wire or on some older cars you can simply remove it from the fusebox)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mastershake575, post: 8786831, member: 665251"] Alot of cars from 2010 onwards have voltage regulators, it's unfortunate for car audio purposes (lower voltage) but the manufactuers do it so they can pad there MPG rating. Reason why alot of those alts you were looking at are $350+ is because they do way better amperage at idle, they actually use upgraded bearings which is what you need with a smaller pulley, and some of them even bypass the voltage regulator (usually the common trick is the more expensive alternators will come with a harness that has a resistor wire, the restitor will basically trick the power controll module into thinking that the alternator always needs a max load so the alternator will run at full tilt at all times). Seems like you found a way to manually bypass the PCM (wording towards the end was confusing but i'm assuming that's what you did, it's usually either removing a wire or on some older cars you can simply remove it from the fusebox) [/QUOTE]
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