Valeo alt is standard fitment I believe

Cheers - but at those prices its a toss up whether I take it off the road and get a cheap diesel for now especially when I have spent so much on it this year already and it still needs bits of work doing....

Will probably cost me more to get a cheap decent diesel than it would to repair all the faults. But then at least I have the economy to help me save to get the 6 back up to scratch maybe.

Going to have to have a good think about it.

WOW just got my quote back from Robins and Day (Peugeot Dealers):

'This part is not in stock anywhere and would have to come from France ( if they have stock )
The price would be £362.52 Inv vat with no return and payment before ordering'

I think I will stick with the Bosch from ECP!

I have a spare one here if interested

So I picked up my new alternator and set about being towed from my flat down to our make shift garage for the day:



As it was raining we had to improvise using an old rabbit run and the top from a gazebo:



Somebody told us the best way to change the alternator would be to take the manifold out.... So we set about undoing all the screws/ bolts etc:



Keeping an Hammer handy just in case:



About 3 hours later we finally located and unscrewed all the bolts and could finally list the manifold out enough to move to the side:



Oh joy - looks like I need a new Gasket too! and nowhere has any instock for a couple of days:



Time to take the PAS pump out:



another oh joy - After getting the PAS out of the way we start taking the aux belt off and see that it pretty much has a slice across the full width which seems very odd thing to happen:



Finally got the old Alternator out the dirty b!tch:



And the new Alternator in place:





A quick run to Bullseye to get a new aux cable and everything is quickly put back in place waiting the new gasket to arrive:



Moral of the story - don't listen to people telling you taking the manifold out is the easiest way! haha

Hopefully once I've picked the new Gasket up and we have it all fitter it will come back to life.

haha after we had already ordered one in I was thinking to myself whether that would work or not.

Three hours to get the manifold off?

I guess if you've never removed one before, but really it's a half hour job including a cuppa.
You should have ordered a new gasket when you bought the alternator, that way it could have been completed in one day.

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Well its all back together and fingers crossed working fine so far! Infact its working even better than usual.

We jump started the car and left it running to get some charge back in the battery and it got pretty hot and the fans kicked in about 3/4's and cooled it back down to half. Never has this happened before.

Also so far ive done about 30/40 miles in the car and the speedo has worked the whole way! Usually it cuts in and out.

I haven't even fitted my new fans or speed sensor yet.... Hopefully unplugging just about all the cables and sensors around the manifold and reconnecting them has done so good.

Lets see how long it lasts for!