Help! My car has gone crazy
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Help! My car has gone crazy
I'm thinking it's a grounding issue but couldn't find any problems like mine in the other electrical threads i found.
A few months back my horn started beeping about every other week while i was driving down the road. It would just be a short beep and nothing else. Now i have other problems. 1 out of 5 times when i turn on my lights my dashboard will not light up. Today when i finished washing my car and was on my way to work my wipers try to come on. They won't come on all the way but they constantly move about an inch or 2 and go back down. They still work if i turn them on, but as soon as i turn my key to the on position they start all over again.
I tried cleaning the grounds and connectors in the front of the engine compartment G101 and G102. found a little corrosion on G102 and cleaned it up. No fix. Can anyone tell me what ground is common to these systems, or do i have a short some where?
Update: after a little more searching i found the likely culprit of the wiper issue. clogged drains. Still no idea on the horn and dash lights though. will continue cleaning grounds and searching.
A few months back my horn started beeping about every other week while i was driving down the road. It would just be a short beep and nothing else. Now i have other problems. 1 out of 5 times when i turn on my lights my dashboard will not light up. Today when i finished washing my car and was on my way to work my wipers try to come on. They won't come on all the way but they constantly move about an inch or 2 and go back down. They still work if i turn them on, but as soon as i turn my key to the on position they start all over again.
I tried cleaning the grounds and connectors in the front of the engine compartment G101 and G102. found a little corrosion on G102 and cleaned it up. No fix. Can anyone tell me what ground is common to these systems, or do i have a short some where?
Update: after a little more searching i found the likely culprit of the wiper issue. clogged drains. Still no idea on the horn and dash lights though. will continue cleaning grounds and searching.
Last edited by jakeF16; Feb 23, 2007 at 06:43 PM.
