Flickering lights, big three fix?
Flickering lights, big three fix? Ok so a little background. Ive had little electrical annoyances since I bought the car back in 09.
First I had the lights pulsing at idle, turned out to be a bad alternator, no biggie.
Then my lights were dimming on decel and the voltage was dropping in the red...took me a while to weed out the problems but it turned out to be a bad tensioner.
I fixed that with the bigger buick pulley on my stock bad tensioner. Since that it has been better but they lights were still dimming on decel but the voltage stopped dropping to the red.
Installed a Katech tensioner last night, which is awesome btw. I took it for a spin last night and while the lights dont dim anymore and my voltage no longer drops, the lights will flicker intermittenly while at cruising speeds like 2-2500 on the highway in 6th...Not a big problem but it annoys the hell out of me, anyone know if it would be worth doing the big three? Any input on whether or not thatll make a difference? Thanks!
First I had the lights pulsing at idle, turned out to be a bad alternator, no biggie.
Then my lights were dimming on decel and the voltage was dropping in the red...took me a while to weed out the problems but it turned out to be a bad tensioner.
I fixed that with the bigger buick pulley on my stock bad tensioner. Since that it has been better but they lights were still dimming on decel but the voltage stopped dropping to the red.
Installed a Katech tensioner last night, which is awesome btw. I took it for a spin last night and while the lights dont dim anymore and my voltage no longer drops, the lights will flicker intermittenly while at cruising speeds like 2-2500 on the highway in 6th...Not a big problem but it annoys the hell out of me, anyone know if it would be worth doing the big three? Any input on whether or not thatll make a difference? Thanks!
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Do you have any special mods to the car that would draw more power? If not:
- You gotta think about why the car worked fine up until a certain point and what broke.
- You gotta think if something is broken, will adding more juice (and spending more money) to the system really fix the issue or will it just hide it for a bit longer?
- You gotta think about why the car worked fine up until a certain point and what broke.
- You gotta think if something is broken, will adding more juice (and spending more money) to the system really fix the issue or will it just hide it for a bit longer?
Do you have any special mods to the car that would draw more power? If not:
- You gotta think about why the car worked fine up until a certain point and what broke.
- You gotta think if something is broken, will adding more juice (and spending more money) to the system really fix the issue or will it just hide it for a bit longer?
- You gotta think about why the car worked fine up until a certain point and what broke.
- You gotta think if something is broken, will adding more juice (and spending more money) to the system really fix the issue or will it just hide it for a bit longer?
The only thing I have in my car electrical wise that didnt come stock is a head unit and 2 gauges. No amp or subs or anything like that.
