i just had an alternator check out ok in the store and then have a bad diode on my car. so i had to put my old alternator back on the car(so i can have flickering lights again;thats a whole other story in itself) and go back to advance auto parts to exchange it for another one. then the guy tells me that my belt tensioner could be bad so now i get to spend another $40 on a new tensioner. so now i am up to almost $1500 in 6 months on the car so far in parts and labor(of which i have done 90% of the labor).
