Sorry I'm having a power issue as well my 2014 dodge journey 3.6 all lights on dash came on a battery saver shut car down completely drained no power I hooked up starter box last night just touched the connection and power restored was able to move it to driveway and did something chuck volts to batter was like 3 volts took nagitve off disconnected power to alt and stop drain too meter to power post on alt and to power on battery and its grounded is there any other test I should do or just pay the 500 for a new alt I don't want to be wrong and be out 500 buck thank you for any input and sorry about bump on this page but thought I could get the help I needed here thax