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I have a 2008 Chevy Silverado 1500. My dash lights and the lights around my radio and heat and air knobs flicker at night when I hit a bump in the road, but the lights on my dash cluster are on durning the day. They will go off and eventually come back on but they won't attempt to come until I hit a bump in the road what could be causing this?
Sounds like a loose connection to me, the only way you can find out just what is causing the problem is to have a car mechanic check it out.
I have a 2001 Chevy Suburban with what sounds like a similar issue, every time I would hit a bump all the dash lights and gauges went haywire and cycled like I was starting the vehicle up. I remember this starting after driving on a washboard dirt road so I figured it jarred something loose. I've been driving it this way for a while saving my money for what I assumed could be a pricy repair. I bought a bluetooth OBDII reader for my other vehicle to check a code and the crazy thing is that when I plugged it into my Suburban and drove it all the dash lights worked perfectly.
I own a Mercedes clk320 amg. Sometimes after turning off the ignition and opening the boot, the dashboard lights up all lights flickering and the light warning says turn off the lights. The lights are already turned off.
It may be that some part of the electronic system is faulty and this triggers off a wholesale warning. This happened to us when a particulate filter clogged up and did not respond to high rev driving to clear it. One by one the warning lights came on, and did not disappear.
Cars are computerized now. It could be nothing. Bring it in to a reliable shop and they will test out the car. If you don't have the equipment you can't do this yourself.
On my 2006 PT Cruiser the dashboard lights will go off than back on. What would cause that?
I have a 2006 nissan quest and it is very hard to get an accurate oil check unless it sits overnight If your oil is low that last thing to get oil is the timig chain tenshioner and it will make te chain loose and it will rattle when it does this I add aquart of oil and the noise goes away
I have a 2006 nissan quest and it is very hard to get an accurate oil check unless it sits overnight If your oil is low that last thing to get oil is the timig chain tenshioner and it will make te chain loose and it will rattle when it does this I add aquart of oil and the noise goes away
My dash lights flicker intermittently, at idle or at speed. When at idle, the engine revs a bit and if I listen closely, it sounds like there is an old tape rewinding, no joke. It is becoming more frequent.
By Charlie
My dashboard lights go on and off, my does the same thing and it also sounds like a tape is rewinding
