Chaps, like many of you I've been out taking advantage of the recent nice weather and pushing the car a little to hear the exhaust note with the windows down and generally loving it.
Last week I was driving and a clear road presented itself so naturally I put my foot down in 2nd gear, but as I was approaching the rev limiter there was a slight bump in the road which threw me and the car off so I missed the manual change and the engine hit the limiter which immediately cut the power and warned of transmission failure and EBD errors. It remained in 2nd gear and I had to turn off feeling rather chastened.
This lasted for around 30 seconds after which everything went back to normal. Using a Carista scan tool afterwards there was an error P0563 System Voltage High which cleared on the next drive cycle.
However a week later I'm getting an intermittent battery light and associated error warnings. It still drives fine but below 3000RPM the battery light comes on. Battery is a year old, but bought a new one just to test and rule that out too.
I'm thinking the alternator is borked after that bit of amateur driving. Anyone have any experience or advice with system voltage errors? I know these cars can be notoriously volatile with their electrics and that I need to test the alternator, but if anyone has experienced similar I'd be grateful for the advice. Car is a 2010 GTS.
Last week I was driving and a clear road presented itself so naturally I put my foot down in 2nd gear, but as I was approaching the rev limiter there was a slight bump in the road which threw me and the car off so I missed the manual change and the engine hit the limiter which immediately cut the power and warned of transmission failure and EBD errors. It remained in 2nd gear and I had to turn off feeling rather chastened.
This lasted for around 30 seconds after which everything went back to normal. Using a Carista scan tool afterwards there was an error P0563 System Voltage High which cleared on the next drive cycle.
However a week later I'm getting an intermittent battery light and associated error warnings. It still drives fine but below 3000RPM the battery light comes on. Battery is a year old, but bought a new one just to test and rule that out too.
I'm thinking the alternator is borked after that bit of amateur driving. Anyone have any experience or advice with system voltage errors? I know these cars can be notoriously volatile with their electrics and that I need to test the alternator, but if anyone has experienced similar I'd be grateful for the advice. Car is a 2010 GTS.