Hi there:
A few days ago as I was driving my 2005 camry the battery light came on and thinking that the problem was the battery (my battery had some leakage the last 2 years - i.e. white "sugar" at the 2 poles but working fine) I stopped at the local Sears to have my car checked.
There they found that the alternator belt was out of position; this resulted from a lousy rotating cylinder attached to the alternator. Thus, they replaced the belt (some small damage), the entire alternator (they told me that its rotating cylinder is not sold separately) and the battery (being bad).
Thus I have the following questions:
(a) It is ok to replace a Toyota battery with a DieHard Gold battery? (b) Is it common that the rotating alternator cylinder is found lousy? (c) Is this repair part of the warranty? My car is still under the
5year/50,000 miles initial warranty.The amazing and quite dangerous thing was that this belt is part of the power steering system; it was very difficult to turn the car to park it at the local Sears - and I am a strong person! ???
Thank you in advance,
/PB