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02-23-2010 #1
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Flashing/flickering lights
This is on the wife's car - an 02 Chevy Tracker (rebadged Suzuki Grand Vitara).
Sometimes - and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it - the lights will start to flash bright/dim about twice a second. The only real bothersome symptom, to me, with this, is the whining sound from the other person in the car when the flicker starts - but I'd better fix it to make her happy.
Initially it was only off-idle, but lately it'll even do it at highway speeds. My thought would be voltage regulator but those are insanely pricey - Autozone says almost 250$ for one, so I don't want to just start randomly swapping parts.
Anyone have any experience with these/that sort of problem to tell me if I'm on the right track?
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02-23-2010 #2
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My wife says that her 01 Tahoe does that occasionally as well. I haven't seen it do that while I was driving, so I don't know where to start looking. Dash lights I think are the main culprit, but then again, I haven't seen it happen yet.
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02-23-2010 #3
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Yeah, dash lights are where I notice it most of the time - but headlights and taillights do it too.
My 98 Camaro did it sometimes too, but not to the extent that this one does.
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