Hi All,

I just got home from our trip to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine....I
stopped for gas about a mile from home....started it up and the alternator
light stayed on very dimly. So I turned on the lights and heater fan,
blipped the throttle ( the same thing happened to my 86 GTI years ago), and
the alt. light went out.

Later on I went to the store and the light came on brighter, and it took a
little more than blipping the throttle to make it go away.

Now, my memory of what was wrong with my GTI's alternator is all but faded,
so I'm posing the question to the group...

Is my problem:
        a. Bad voltage regulator
        b. bad brushes
        c. bad diodes
        d. nothing that a piece of black tape over the alternator light can't fix.

Thanks in advance...

Ric