dash lights and tripometer resetting randomly...
05-01-2008, 12:02 AM
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dash lights and tripometer resetting randomly... Everytime I start my car, and even sometimes when I'm driving, all of my dash lights will come on and the gages will go almost all the way over and then back down and the lights turn off after a second.
I know when starting the car the lights are supposed to come on for a little bit just to show you that they are working and then go off, but why would this happen when I'm already driving?
And before this problem, when I started my car the gauges never went all the way over and then back down. I was wandering about this too. Its like I have a loose connection but the gauges have never done this when starting the car till this whole problem came up.
When this happens, during driving and after this problem is over the gauges read like they are supposed to. if I'm moving the speed goes back to normal and the rpms read fine but the tripometer resets to zero.
I know when starting the car the lights are supposed to come on for a little bit just to show you that they are working and then go off, but why would this happen when I'm already driving?
And before this problem, when I started my car the gauges never went all the way over and then back down. I was wandering about this too. Its like I have a loose connection but the gauges have never done this when starting the car till this whole problem came up.
When this happens, during driving and after this problem is over the gauges read like they are supposed to. if I'm moving the speed goes back to normal and the rpms read fine but the tripometer resets to zero.
05-04-2008, 09:20 PM
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If it still does, look for corosion. It can hide in strange places. On my 89 Yoda it was in the main starter wire. One day it just did not want to start, yet the battery voltage was good. So I took the truck to Checker to see if those tards can se if the starter was good, they said my starter was bad. I said **** that and bypassed the wiring and hooked up the battery straight to the starter and it worked.
Long story short, I cut the wire open and it was just full of corrosion. But, everything on the outside of the wire looked just fine.
Long story short, I cut the wire open and it was just full of corrosion. But, everything on the outside of the wire looked just fine.
