I don't know the particulars in this specific Alt warning light case..

and..I sure hear and witness a lot of cases where people will Not Even
JUST LOOK !! ...
like aim their eyeballs at things in the engine compartment .

My own daughter when she was 6 yr old might easily notice a flopping
alternator belt is probably not right.

I'll stop ...I have  even know vanagon owners to see the two classic
symtoms of Alt Light on, and Temp Needle rising .
( classic signs of loosing the alt / water pump belt ) ..
not even look at the engine ..
and when they finally did ..fail to notice a massively split apart and
just 'gone' crankshaft pulley ..on a diesel vanagon.

It never hurts to just look.
One doesn't have to be a real technician to see something obvious
completely weird looking, which does happen sometimes.

In my perception a lot of people "believe" they can't fix things ..so
they don't even look.

On 2/7/2014 12:35 PM, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 2/7/2014 3:22:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> fuzzmeister@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
> Anyone  available in Berkeley to help me with this? Or on the  phone?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
> Fuzzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> check your alternator belt.. it may be loose...
>