Flashing Dash Lights and DRLs after Engine Start
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Racer
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From: Kansas
Flashing Dash Lights and DRLs after Engine Start
Went out and started the 02 this morning to move it out of barn. When I started the car and after the engine runs for about 30 sec all the dash lights and the DRLs start flashing off and on. When I turn on the parking lights the flashing stops. When I turn them off it starts up again. I have led lights in the DRLs as well as in the door panels and tail lights. I have the hyper flash harness also. There are also resistors that the person before me put in for the front turn signal leds. I’m at a loss because everything was working for several months until this morning. I’ve been having problems with the battery so I replaced the battery this morning but still have this darn flashing issue. Any ideas where to start? I’ve done several searches and don’t really see a similar instance. I have no codes on DIC.
Forgot to mention car has 63k on it and has been barged most of it life. Also don’t have the switchback DRLs on it.
Thanks
Forgot to mention car has 63k on it and has been barged most of it life. Also don’t have the switchback DRLs on it.
Thanks
Last edited by roelkers; May 30, 2020 at 08:00 PM.
Melting Slicks
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Make sure your battery cables are nice and tight, check if you can move cable terminals on battery' There have been posts of batteries sold with shallow terminals where it appears that the bolt is tight but is not pushing the cable against the battery terminal.
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Racer
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From: Kansas
Well I’ve unhooked the DRLs and they stop blinking so I removed the extra resisters (I bought the hyper flash harness for my rear lights because I didn’t want to have to put resistors in each location) inline with front turn and DRLs and still no luck. Could my alternator be bad? After about 1 min run time it’s hotter than blue blazes. If it’s not the Alt can anyone tell which grounding block I need to look at for the DRLs?
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Racer
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Well I’ve figured out the problem. It was one of the switchback DRL lights. The DRL part of the bulb was burned out. Noticed when I had the lights turned on and the turn signal on the DRL part of the bulb was not lit between turn signal lighting. Got new bulbs coming from vette lights.
