MattWill
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Setting off today for the start of a 2 week driving tour of Scotland organised by the UK Maserati club and my 26,000 mile 2005 car stopped on the M1 After 4 hours driving. It’s been a hot day and we’d been crawling but the orange engine light came on, along with a message in red saying ‘Slow down’. Max speed we’d been doing was 80/85 and it came on while we we crawling off the slip road in a queue. All fluid levels look fine, no obvious sign of overheating.
i turned the engine back on, it sounded a bit rough. I put it into 1st (paddle shift) and the engine stalled. Tried it a couple more times and called for recovery.
i had noticed on the way up that the alternator was only charging at 11 volts or so. Jay, the excellent recovery man said it was common for failing alternators to trigger lights and other problems. He turned the engine on and this time it did go into gear and he could drive onto the low loader but it was in limp mode with only four cylinders working.
I found a Maserati specialist nearby so the car is there tonight and hoping he might find a fix tomorrow so we can carry on…
Anyone have any ideas what the problem is and, if it is the alternator, is there any way of getting one quickly - hoping it’s out of Fiat 500 or something!
i turned the engine back on, it sounded a bit rough. I put it into 1st (paddle shift) and the engine stalled. Tried it a couple more times and called for recovery.
i had noticed on the way up that the alternator was only charging at 11 volts or so. Jay, the excellent recovery man said it was common for failing alternators to trigger lights and other problems. He turned the engine on and this time it did go into gear and he could drive onto the low loader but it was in limp mode with only four cylinders working.
I found a Maserati specialist nearby so the car is there tonight and hoping he might find a fix tomorrow so we can carry on…
Anyone have any ideas what the problem is and, if it is the alternator, is there any way of getting one quickly - hoping it’s out of Fiat 500 or something!