I got it all back now.Alt charging fine at last.I followed your advice and checked out bmwe30.net and read about the si batterys and changed those,but,it still didn't work so i pulled my ground on the alt.looked it over real good and there it was plane as day,wire broke on the inside of my ground wire,clean in half!!!!!!!!! thanks for all the help,sometimes it's just pure stupid little things like this.Thank god!!!!!!!!!