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problem battery sparking?

when tryin put connection on battery of my corsa it spaks and a strange ping noise then smoke and burning down near fan belt earth wire alt area

s entwistle
February 2011
sounds like you've tried to reconnect the leads the wrong way round and the regulator/rectifier at the alternator has fried. Always re-connect red lead to positive (+) first then black lead to negative (-)

crabbiepattie
February 2011

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