What Crazy Electrical gremlins do you have??

[s13gold]

uhmmm....my right blinker blinks fast as hell while the left is normal

[corey240]

well im getting a weird code 13 on my sr, which shouldnt be happening. see, everything worked fine befor, but i got a blown motor. so now that i finished building my motor and put it back in, im getting this bs code 13 which is coolant temp sensor. so i replace the sensors, yes both for the hell of it. still, and after checking all voltages (fine) its still gayed.

[J-Style]

This is an awesome thread! Here are my gremlin's...

* My high-beams don't work.

*My passanger-side seatbelt works when it feels like it.

*My check engine light is always on or flashing.

*My gauge lights don't work.

*My left-rear side-marker doesn't work.

*My entire C.D. deck and speaker's no longer work.

*My ignition switch is temperamental.

I can't seem to remember my other electrical problems, but there are more. My 240sx seems to have a new electrical problem everyday.

[Taniguchi_Is_#1]

my low beams like to work on one side only and they alternate at various times. sometimes they don't work at all.

[Addicted2Kouki]

when i turn my driver side speakers dont put out any sound. opening and closing the door sometimes helps.. hard to do on the freeway though.

[eminem_rh25]

Originally Posted by Addicted2Kouki

when i turn my driver side speakers dont put out any sound. opening and closing the door sometimes helps.. hard to do on the freeway though.

Pull your speaker out and make sure the wires are making good contact with the speaker and there is no loose exposed connections.. Sounds like when you turn, the wire grounds to the inside of the door.

My current problem is my car's battery will not charge. I've replaced the alternator and the battery, and still the same problem! I'm going to replace the battery cables. I got a charge kit and ground kit from a member of Club-S12 so I'm gonna see if that works..

[street240]

My car has the 5 spd swap so I get the check engine light sometimes for the neutral switch.

[jussjepbrox]

i got a funny one whhanged my steering wheel to a momo i didnt have cruise control anymore. later on my wiring got fucked up long story and i had to redo the wires in the harness and now when i signal right my cruise control works i have no idea how, its safe tho as soon as i tap the brakes or clutch the cruise turns off

[wannabe_drifter]

when I am accelerating, I get to about 5500-6000 rpm, all the lights dim and the car almost stops accelerating. (can anyone help for this it is really annoying!!)

The wipers turn on randomly sometimes when I start the car.

When I first got the car I would accelerate up to 5000 rpm and then the wipers would come on, speedo would stop working, some lights in the dash would light up and the car would brutally stop accelerating... Turned ou to be a blown 80 amp fuse, can't remember which though.

[love_free_robots]

no brights they just turn off, horn works sometimes, seat belt kept on going back and forth i had to unplugg it, no back up lamps, tachometer not working, the list goes on.

[TheTimanator]

lol, i never realized how many people had eletrical problems...
I fixed all my electrical gremlins when I first got the car.... replaced headlight motor and unplugged the ebrake sensor so the light would stop randomly flashing.

The only weird thing it does now is the car pulses (idle doesn't change or anything) when the radiator fans come on. Also the my pilot fcg-x (fan control and digital water temp gauge) gets horribly inaccurate when the fans are on. This will soon be fixed b/c I switching to a clutch fan....

[WERDdabuilder]

when i press my brake..idle goes down a little.

[zaneithan]

the daily has a mess of electrical gremlins (s13 btw), seatbelt light comes on randomly all the time, the dimmer on the gauges doesnt work at all, all four speakers have a short and come in and out at random times and just recently the climate control light has been going dimmer and brighter randomly

[ILiveToDrift]

I cannot turn my running lights on without blowing a fuse that is connected to my taillights, running lights, and back lighting to my gauges. I have the tailights hooked up so they are on all the time but I cant see how fast I'm going at night unless I use my cell phone as a light and of course no running lights. I belive its shorting out somewhere inside because I've had the running lights disconected and it still blows that fuse. Any thoughts?

[SexPanda]

I got the usual no gauge cluster lights thing...

I can live with it...

[hay_hay13]

Originally Posted by rancid240

Same here.......

yeah that happens to me too. but whenever that happens the lights for the ac/fan/temp controls are either off or flickering its weird.....

[tangch]

my radio goes on and off randomly...not sure if it is the power source, cuz i can still eject or put in the cd

[trsilvias13]

Werddabuilder - you have a loose vacuum.

I have code 1008 - stupid obd2 s14

[LongGrain]

my rear wiper used to wipe whenever i pushed the brake pedal. and it would shut off when i let go of the pedal most of the time, sometimes it would keep going...even if i shut the car off completely, but now i have a wingless/wiperless hatch.

[240AM]

This is a great thread. Only one headlight will close. (fixed with permanent sleepy eye) Car dies when high beams are turned on. (fixed with better fuse)

And the best one, I had a problem when I first got the car that when I put the key in the ignition the headlights would go up and down and the seat belts would move back and forward. It looked like a scene from poltergeist. That problem went away when I removed the auto seat belts and I have subsequently rewired almost everything in the car.

[Sidewayzzz]

if i put my key in and turn to acc, then take the key out, the lights on my gauge cluster stay lit. I must start the car first, then turn it off and take the key out to get the lights to turn off.

[FinalDrive]

Originally Posted by FinalDrive

My s13's dash & cluster lights don't work. The fuse is fine and I work too much to mess with it.
My s14 works perfect, never had an electrical issue with it

fixed the lights on the s13... it was the white TCU box in the kick panel
new problem: the gas gauge points straight down, waaaay past E when I first start the car

[delphis]

well I am glad to say the only thing I have is no dome light and my backlight to my clock doesn't work.

[Liger]

if parked in the sun too long, automatic doorlocks malfunction

[sr20boostn20]

if i turn my radio up to loud, which isnt that loud at all, it shuts off and rests,

seatbelt lite comes on whenever then makes the ding ding noise for a little, goes off then repeats

my windshield wipers dont do the automatic go down thing, and they only have 2 speeds no intermittent, and if i dont realize and leave them on intermitten cause it dosent work, then race, or go over 110mph, they magically start to work.

[slideattack]

Originally Posted by ILiveToDrift

I cannot turn my running lights on without blowing a fuse that is connected to my taillights, running lights, and back lighting to my gauges. I have the tailights hooked up so they are on all the time but I cant see how fast I'm going at night unless I use my cell phone as a light and of course no running lights. I belive its shorting out somewhere inside because I've had the running lights disconected and it still blows that fuse. Any thoughts?

I am having the same problem.....tailights, guage lights and parking lights dont work. I replaced the fuses mulitple times and it still blows...WTF.... looks like I am going to have to run new wires from my headlight switch out to all of the lights. I cant find the short

[ride 4 lame]

When i make right turns my dome light turns on.
I think there is something wrong with the driver door striker.

[flclsteve]

dash lights dont work

dash clock light works but when i turn lights on shuts off

near my center console theres a lil green light that is only on when my car lights are on

and the green lights on to show the ac is on goes on and off as it wants to

but those are just minor things

[Dinosource]

My gauge cluster only illuminates after the car has been warmed up. By warm, I mean it's been ran for 20-some odd minutes. When I do turn on my headlights, my clock stops illuminating. All of these great features come from my HUD.

Any idea what I should do? It's rather annoying, and I'd hate to replace the cluster if that wasn't really the problem.

[powersteeringless180sx]

sometimes my headlights have a delay when flipping up. when i turn my lights on sometimes it'll take them 10-15 seconds to flip up.