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·About 3 days ago, my 1987 Turbo started doing wierdness...
As soon as the key goes to ON (whether the engine is runnign or not, and for the ENTIRE time the key is ON), 3 idiot light light up -- but they light up slightly dimmed (maybe 80% normal brightness):
- The Brake light (for the hand-brake)
- The Battery light (Charging system)
- The Tail Light light (for when a tail light is out).
Now here's the thing. The charging system is and was working perfectly. The hand-brake is obviously off, and the tail lights are fine.
Now the hand brake is an easy one to test... yup, it's down.
The charging system has been tested and is in fact fine.
The tail lights are all on and operational. I once had a loose connection in there (about 6 months ago) that would flash the light once in a while, but that's fixed, and there is nothign else wrong with them that I can find.
Essentially, these systems seem fine. One more detail: when I DO put the hand-brake on, the BRAKE light gets a bit brighter, which is how I twigged onto the fact that these 3 lights aren't on at full brightness....
My best guess is it's a probable short somewhere. I pulled the dash apart and cant find any worn or broken wires behind there anywhere... Even the dealership (on the phone) agreed it's a pretty strange combination of indicators to be going on...
So my question to you: What on earth could do this?? Where can I look for possible faults? I have tried tracing wiring diagrams, but because these systems seem basically unrelated, I can't figure out where the fault could be... COULD this be a short? If so, any ideas where? Could this be caused by the computer having a hairball on me?
Any ideas on what to try next?? I really can't afford to pay a shop hundreds of dollars to trace a short right now... And I'd really rather find the problem instead of say disconnecting the indicators =)
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance (and sorry for the long post)
Dave
As soon as the key goes to ON (whether the engine is runnign or not, and for the ENTIRE time the key is ON), 3 idiot light light up -- but they light up slightly dimmed (maybe 80% normal brightness):
- The Brake light (for the hand-brake)
- The Battery light (Charging system)
- The Tail Light light (for when a tail light is out).
Now here's the thing. The charging system is and was working perfectly. The hand-brake is obviously off, and the tail lights are fine.
Now the hand brake is an easy one to test... yup, it's down.
The charging system has been tested and is in fact fine.
The tail lights are all on and operational. I once had a loose connection in there (about 6 months ago) that would flash the light once in a while, but that's fixed, and there is nothign else wrong with them that I can find.
Essentially, these systems seem fine. One more detail: when I DO put the hand-brake on, the BRAKE light gets a bit brighter, which is how I twigged onto the fact that these 3 lights aren't on at full brightness....
My best guess is it's a probable short somewhere. I pulled the dash apart and cant find any worn or broken wires behind there anywhere... Even the dealership (on the phone) agreed it's a pretty strange combination of indicators to be going on...
So my question to you: What on earth could do this?? Where can I look for possible faults? I have tried tracing wiring diagrams, but because these systems seem basically unrelated, I can't figure out where the fault could be... COULD this be a short? If so, any ideas where? Could this be caused by the computer having a hairball on me?
Any ideas on what to try next?? I really can't afford to pay a shop hundreds of dollars to trace a short right now... And I'd really rather find the problem instead of say disconnecting the indicators =)
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance (and sorry for the long post)
Dave