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Anonymous Posted on Aug 14, 2014

Why when i drive like stop and go my dash dials dip as if the power is being drained, but when the car stand and idles and this day or night time but my battery is always strong and the car starts up one time even if i drove the whole night plus my headlights only works on hi beam

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Sounds like you have an electrical problem. Possibly. A wire is loose touching something

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    tace899 Aug 14, 2014

    You possibly have a dirty fuse connection. Pull out all fuses (one by one) and clean the contacts with fine sand paper. A bad connection on the fuses can cause a voltage drop when you stop (stop lights come on). It is also likely if you had high voltage that you could have had a carbon build up on the fuses. All of this is just "could be", so you need to check the basics. Headlight problem could also be a blown fuse or bad connection.

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