Overrevved, now weird dashlight problem

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Overrevved, now weird dashlight problem

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I accidently shifted from 5th to 2nd instead of 4th, and hit around 9,000RPM very briefly (pushed the clutch back in almost instantly)

Now they ABS, brake and battery lights all stay on below 4500rpm, but turn off after

any ideas what could cause that?
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Post by Splinter »

apparently I fried the alternator.

Replaced it with a spare, and its all gravy.
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Post by tris91ricer »

Yup, I've done that before, just not the way you did it. In fact, you can drive the car that way for a long time. . . It just gets annoying. Some of my first posts here were about just this. ..
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Post by Splinter »

Alternator was dead so the car eventually died when the battery ran out of go juice
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Eeeeek!
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Post by stef1825 »

Wow what a weird consequence to a bad downshift .. did you guess it was the alternator or did a super subaru guru help you out?
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