One nice thing about eBay is that if you discover it's counterfeit within 30 days of delivery, they come down hard on that sort of crap. Put in for a return with "doesn't match description" for the reason and they approve it automatically, even if the item is nominally non-returnable. The vendor gets no say in the matter. I sell on eBay and I can tell you, bogus item descriptions are the one thing they take as seriously as a heart attack. Complain to customer service that it was counterfeit and not just mis-described, and I guarantee the vendor won't hear the end of it for months.
Entirely possible, lots of places do that.
Have you gotten it tested after reassembly?? If it worked fine until the defect finally took it down could it possibly be just a reconditioner's error? You've been on here for a while and if you don't know of a surefire way to distinguish between genuine alternators it may have just been a legitimate mistake on Hitachi's end. I'd be open to buy it if you got it tested.Q451990 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:10 pmI put the China alternator with the bad wire back together and it's been sitting in a box. It'll go back to get my core charge back if all goes well. So at that point I'll have the new alternator I bought today, and original one from my Q that I repaired with new bearings and the nearly new diode pack back in 2012. I've put about 10,000 miles on it in the last 10ish years. I should probably go with "if it ain't broke..."
I never repaired the China alternator. In addition to the broken wire, one of the brushes broke when I took it apart. I think the other brush broke when I put it back together. I had some doubts about this alternator before I installed it, and sent pictures to Hitachi to see if they could confirm that it was genuine. At that point their best guess was that it was.No1Dad wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 7:26 amHave you gotten it tested after reassembly?? If it worked fine until the defect finally took it down could it possibly be just a reconditioner's error? You've been on here for a while and if you don't know of a surefire way to distinguish between genuine alternators it may have just been a legitimate mistake on Hitachi's end. I'd be open to buy it if you got it tested.
I showed your pictures to our QA manager and we both feel it is more than likely that alternator is a genuine remanufactured LR1110-701BR. A true tell tale sign would be a little silver unit label somewhere on the side of the alternator with our name on it. If you find it please take a picture and send it to us. The box is definitely Hitachi. Obviously we cannot say for sure with all the different after market companies out there building alternators.
It'll make a great core to send back to get my core charge back, but I wouldn't consider trying to fix it and use it unless I really had no other options. Here are some more pictures of the interior.Thanks for the pictures they really helped. You are correct about root cause of alternator failure, is rotor. We went over the pictures of the box and alternator you sent perviously. If the box is truly the one the alternator came in, the alternator must of been tampered. A remanufactured Hitachi alternator that would come in that box would have all Hitachi components and a silver unit label on the side.