2004 Bmw x5 3.0i having battery light come on drove for fifteen minutes car dies Had changed battery drove great for a couple hours then same issue battery light came on car dead Had alternator chan

Asked by Roxy12212012 Dec 07, 2016 at 12:35 PM about the BMW X5

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2004 Bmw x5 3.0i having battery light come on drove for fifteen minutes car
dies Had changed battery drove great for a couple hours then same issue
battery light came on car dead Had alternator changed drove car lost power
again and is dead

Roxy12212012 answered 7 years ago

It was the alternator , they had put in a faulty one.

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