# Volt Gauge Fluctuating **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** batteries, gauges, alternators\ **Created:** [November 27, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188 "2014-11-27T09:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PapaScott1972](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/papascott1972/32/46874_2.png) [@PapaScott1972](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PapaScott1972)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188/21 "2017-08-03T03:48:44Z")
Lol… YEARS late! Relax man. No one was belittling you. Perhaps instead of getting angry, you just move on… ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188/22 "2017-08-03T15:34:14Z")
> [@PapaScott1972](#): > > Lol… YEARS late! So, what solved your original problem? ---
**Author:** ![PapaScott1972](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/papascott1972/32/46874_2.png) [@PapaScott1972](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PapaScott1972)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188/23 "2017-08-03T15:50:48Z")
Selling the truck. Lol. It never did go away. The sister of the kid who bought it, wrecked it a month after he bought it. ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188/24 "2017-08-03T16:46:38Z")
> [@PapaScott1972](#): > > Selling the truck. Thanks. “Inquiring minds want to know!” ;-] ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188/25 "2017-08-03T16:56:57Z")
> [@cravinbob](#): > > Long time but must say thanks for the slam on me. I am 63 next month and have done my own mechanics since forever. Half-assed info gets bad answers but its the info giver not the helper so bite a big one. You seriously reopened an old thread for that?! Glad I’m not related to you if you’re going to hold a forum grudge that long… @PapaScott1972 Thanks for giving us a solution 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cravinbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@cravinbob](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cravinbob)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188/26 "2018-03-27T19:05:24Z")
I must have missed the side post mention! Thanks ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188/27 "2018-03-27T21:47:43Z")
Like I said three years ago, I could notice a flicker in my lights and NAPA tested the alternator and said it was fine. I changed it anyway and fluctuation disappeared. So I really don’t trust the auto parts test equipment for intermittent or maybe mild fluctuations. They can tell you if it is dead but they are not an electric shop. So I still say it was the voltage regulator in the alternator. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/volt-gauge-fluctuating/88188.md?page=1)