I recently got stranded with a non charging battery. The battery was brand new so it simply was not charging. I figured it was the stator or the regulator. I took it to the shop and they diagnosed as the stator and replaced it. Then today they call and say that the charge is dropping so the regulator would eventually die and possibly leave me stranded again. It seems like they misdianosed the stator as the the problem because the tech told me they were reducing the cost of the the stator and gaskets. He also said that it was possibly that the bad regulator could have killed my stator, which doesn't sound right to me. I think I got reemed by a misdiagnosis. What do you think?
You ran into another bunch of incompetants ! If they didn't diagnose it carefully enough, run some tests, naturally they couldn't fix it and just charged you for throwing parts at the problem. Could a bad r/r kill a stator?? Could a mountain lion kill a bear ?? Maybe !! But what WILL kill a stator every time is contact between any of the three wires in the plug to the r/r if it's melting.
If the shop was competent they would have diagnosed that it was both stator and regulator or the stator only or the R/R only. Its not rocket science. They are full of it. Chance's are it was a R/R upfront. --- Find a new shop. - Agree with squirrel they should have looked at the connectors too. -----
