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OK, so aside from my previous headlight short that would cause the head lights to perodicaly go on and off with thempature drops when the car was off, i have a new short.
SO I was riding down the road a few days ago and it started, severl times a minit every so offten my BRAKE and BATTERY light will flicker on and off and sometimes stay on for a few seconds, whle at the gas station I looked up under the dash and jiggled wires. from that brief test the lights did nothing, BUT as soon as I left they continued. and IDEAS????
sorry about the bad speeling my spell check isnt working..
Mods:courtest fstb, progress adjustable rsb, place racing cai, pacesetter headers, hyperco gen 2 (to be installed), gti-r turbo manifold (to be installed)
Well that sucks as I have exactly the same problem. The flickering is just as described and started less than a month ago.
Since my battery is in the trunk I checked all the cables, made sure I had good ground up front, too, including MAF ground (which cleared up my idle issue last month).
Now I get this flickering which tends to go away (or not happen) under acceleration, happens mostly when backing off the throttle. I rechecked all the ground wires, the battery is pretty new (this year anyway), and the cables from the trunk appear to be in very good shape. It's all clean w/o rust anywhere and the cable insultator is like new.
Alternator makes sense, as the flicker also can be seen in the dome light when parked at idle; if I rev the engine just a little the dome light flickering stops. However when driving the car, the 2 dash lights (Brake and Battery) flicker when the engine could be at 5000 rpm backing off to 4000. I thought maybe the combo of UD pulleys and trunk battery was messing with me, but it was set up that way for a long time and works fine.
When I had the so-so ground last month turning on lights, stereo, radar detector messed with the idle - car would start to stumble at idle a bit when I put extra load with Acc's on it. Sounds like maybe the alternator is getting tempermental.
Thanks, hadn't really thought to look there since I have put 5k miles on the car since buying it running all kinds of juice to cell phone, radar detector, lights, etc. and I just figured usually when an alternator goes bad, it does not give you a month's warning. I'll check it out...
