dash, interior, and head lights flicker!!
dash, interior, and head lights flicker!! Hey guys. I have a 99 Z28 and I have noticed that at night time when I have the lights on the dash lights, interior lights, and headlights flicker just a bit. Most of the time it is barely noticeable and other people can't even tell it is doing it but I can tell because I am **** like that. I have done a search on this topic and it seemed that there were a few different things that people did to fix this problem. From what I could tell it seemed most people replaced the alternator and it fixed the problem. My car has 118k miles on it and I am pretty sure its the stock alternator. I am going to clean up the grounds on it for sure since that is easy but do you guys think I should try a new alternator as a first step to fixing this? thanks in advance.
Staging Lane
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I have a 2002 TA that only has 20,000 on it and it does the same thing. I noticed a split second flicker in the headlights but I guess now I'll notice the dash too
I'm not going to worry about it unless it gets worse.
I'm not going to worry about it unless it gets worse. ![Luder[PAK9]'s Avatar](data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 50 50'><circle class='avatar-circle-default' fill='%237aab38' cx='25px' cy='25px' r='20px'></circle><text class='avatar-text-default' x='49%' y='53%' fill='white' text-anchor='middle' alignment-baseline='middle'>L</text></svg>)
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if it only does it at idle then the alt. will test out ok.
The replacement alt. will probably start to flicker again after a few thousand miles, sorry to say. Mine was flickering for years and then at 95k it went out and the replacement AZ Gold did not flicker for a few months... but then it start to.
The replacement alt. will probably start to flicker again after a few thousand miles, sorry to say. Mine was flickering for years and then at 95k it went out and the replacement AZ Gold did not flicker for a few months... but then it start to.
