With the replacement battery on, we had measured the voltage and it was slowly rising from 12V or so with the engine running, so we thought that was that!
However, since then the battery voltage has been slowly dropping, so he had a look and noticed the fanbelt wasn't very tight. That lead him to look at the alternator, which was only held in place with the adjustment strap!!
The bracket, with its spacers (for the 200TDi mod) had sheared off!
Patrick says he had noticed the radio playing up early on in the journey back from Scotland, so the belt had, luckily, stayed on the pulleys and must have been spinning the water pump and the alternator just enough to put the light out!
Anyway - all sorted now with Dad laying in a puddle in torrential rain to get it re-mounted
So, he's all set for Leafers at t'Pit at the weekend
. Here we will spend a couple of days in and around the area before heading west, then south via the coast to Ullapool for a couple of days, then off to Oban via Skye, where we too hope to get a ferry at short notice. The penultimate stage of the trip will be down to Dumfries, then the last stage will be back home to the West Mid's.