Wife gets the typical plethora of DIM alerts, low voltage, low performance, ABS faults etc . Amazingly, she makes it home but I can't restart the car - dead battery. Charge battery, start car, measure voltage 12.0. Remove alternator - yeah.... Seriously, Volvo, whenever the instructions for servicing the alternator start with "remove intake" you know your design is ****ing stupid. Okay, intake off, alternator out. Run around town for an hour trying to find a decent auto shop that can test it. Turns out alternator is fine. WTF? A bolt. Yes, a bolt connecting the alternator drive to the accessory cam shaft is loose. A whole effing day written off because Volvo can't put some Loctite on a bolt! Put the darn thing back in with an impact wrench and red Loctite! Ha! And of course the car runs fine. Only good thing to come out of it is my wife thinks I'm a genius (not the small-handed kind ) for fixing her car without spending a dime.
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