Hi all
I have had a intermittent squeek off maybe the belt on tick over for sometime but I just thought it was the belt. Last night a relay in the box in the passenger footwell was clicking like mad on side lights and went off when I switched on the main lights! The windscreen washer tries to clean the roof and the wipers are now nearly going as fast as helicopter blades! Me thinks its the voltage regulator in the alternator? I suppose if thats the case I will have to be careful not to boil the battery.
Do you agree?
Well, I had an intermittent squeak that rapidly developed into a full blown 'all the time' squeak. It turned out to be the tensioner pulley bearing. I had it replaced, along with the belt, and that cured the problem. In addition, I also had the battery light coming on (and tacho not working) albeit sporadically, and whilst the belt and pulley were being replaced, I had the engineer look at the electrical connections on the back of the alternator, and he tightened/lubed the connector. No problems since then.
Regarding the windscreen washer, not sure what that is, but when I bought my Disco the washers needed a great deal of readjusting with a pin, before they hit the right spot. Now you mention it, they were rather weak (I posted a post on here for that), but now seem to be quite strong, and I can't pinpoint why or when that happened!
Electrics are certainly not my forte, so I won't even begin to diagnose that. Have you got the Landrover TIS disc, the one that the Techies use to diagnose/fix spurious problems? They are available on Ebay, for £5-ish.
BTW, the tensioner pulley and belt replacement cost £117 all in, with approved LR parts. I know you can just replace the bearing in the pulley (£7 from Ebay), but I didn't have the time or the inclination. It only took my local LR independent specialist 15 minutes to do the work.