Hey
havent posted much but been looking around alot. love this place.

Thing is my headlights arent working properly and i cant figure it out, gauges are playing up aswell, i know its a fault of some kind, a short perhaps?
See when i release my handrbake my gauges all of a sudden work, then theyd randomly drop and come on again... i dont understand.
Now with my lights, one of them works... i think its the parking light or whatever you may call it?? not sure, and again the lights(both of them, i have only two) will work when they seem to feel like it.
Ive checked fuses, cleaned the terminals and so forth, nothing... then when i figured the thing out with the handbrake it made me wonder if theres a faulty wire conected to it, handbrake light for the dashboard... once again im not sure.
id like to be able to drive at night, so i was just wondering if theres anything i should look at, before i take it to some auto electrician who will charge me some ridiculous amount like last time... $250 to tell me my clock is sucking too much power, dissconecting it and then allowing me to figure out that all that was needed was a new freaking battery, id thought that was the first thing you'd do... check the battery if its on its last leg. sorry for advance for that irrelevant story.

any help would be appreciated
thanks

Well i almost had a problem like this, my radio would shut off when i went in reverse. And what i did was, change all the the light bulbs, clean all the terminals, change all my fuses, and cleaned out under my fuse box. Because only god know what is under there after 27 years of driver. Hope this helps, Cheers.

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could be a bad ground check the bat. ground

Don't overlook infamous hazard switch.

Sounds like back feeding (+) electricity. Remove fuses one at a time until an accessory doesn't act up to find the power (+) source. Check and eliminate slowly and methodically. Good luck.

thanks for the suggestions, ill try all of the above.