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Dashboard lights flickering and lost power

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so about a week and a half ago my ESP and BAS light came on. later that night out of no where, all my lights on my dashboard started flickering all crazy (battery, abs, brake , etc. ALL LIGHTS). while I was driving. then all of a sudden my car actually started like stalling on me(losing power) that I had to pull over to the side of the road. I waited for about like minute, without actually turning off the car, and put it back on drive and kept going. didn't do it again till later. and now here and there it does it.

went online and seen that it might be the ignition switch, so I changed and it still was doing. went ahead and changed the ignition cylinder, and it still did. so now I'm stuck on not knowing WHAT THE **** IT IS!! my thinking it's a short somewhere but idk.

talk to someone today and said it might be the,alternator but once again have no idea. I'm trying to figure it out before actually taking it to the dealer and spending allot of money there.

Has anybody had this problem before? or know what it is??

If someone could tell me how to upload a video so u guys can see.

please help fam!!!
 

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#2 ·
all dash lights on at the same time

I wanted to respond to - WICKEDX5150 - I have had the same problem on my 07 dodge charger r/t (all dash lights come on while driving and seem to reset before vehicle is shut off) and is very intermittent. I haven't changed anything due to not being able to pin point exactly what is causing the issue. I am writing this because I am curious as well as to how to trouble shoot the problem. Any feedback is appreciated!!
 
#3 ·
I had the same issue with my Charger, was driving then all of the lights came on and with the ding sound, lost all power no matter how hard I stepped on the accelerator. I pulled over, turned the car off for a minute, started it up and it seemed fine as i started driving all the lights cam back on and loss of power, fortunately I was only about a mile, so it literally limped all the way to the house. so it's been sitting for months, i don't know if it the ECM or faulty connections somewhere. I've started it up a few times and it runs fine other times, ding sound and all the lights
 
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so about a week and a half ago my ESP and BAS light came on. later that night out of no where, all my lights on my dashboard started flickering all crazy (battery, abs, brake , etc. ALL LIGHTS). while I was driving. then all of a sudden my car actually started like stalling on me(losing power) that I had to pull over to the side of the road. I waited for about like minute, without actually turning off the car, and put it back on drive and kept going. didn't do it again till later. and now here and there it does it.

went online and seen that it might be the ignition switch, so I changed and it still was doing. went ahead and changed the ignition cylinder, and it still did. so now I'm stuck on not knowing WHAT THE **** IT IS!! my thinking it's a short somewhere but idk.

talk to someone today and said it might be the,alternator but once again have no idea. I'm trying to figure it out before actually taking it to the dealer and spending allot of money there.

Has anybody had this problem before? or know what it is??

If someone could tell me how to upload a video so u guys can see.

please help fam!!!
so about a week and a half ago my ESP and BAS light came on. later that night out of no where, all my lights on my dashboard started flickering all crazy (battery, abs, brake , etc. ALL LIGHTS). while I was driving. then all of a sudden my car actually started like stalling on me(losing power) that I had to pull over to the side of the road. I waited for about like minute, without actually turning off the car, and put it back on drive and kept going. didn't do it again till later. and now here and there it does it.

went online and seen that it might be the ignition switch, so I changed and it still was doing. went ahead and changed the ignition cylinder, and it still did. so now I'm stuck on not knowing WHAT THE **** IT IS!! my thinking it's a short somewhere but idk.

talk to someone today and said it might be the,alternator but once again have no idea. I'm trying to figure it out before actually taking it to the dealer and spending allot of money there.

Has anybody had this problem before? or know what it is??

If someone could tell me how to upload a video so u guys can see.

please help fam!!!
bro I have the same exact problem did you ever figure it out? I would love to know because I bought the damm charger in February 2021 and have been able to use it all year because of it ! my mechanic said I should sue the dealer I already replaced the PCM twice and i just really want to figure this out. after I got a new pcm the first time the car actually worked for about a month but then started doing the same thing again . 2006 charger rt
 
#8 ·
I have a 2010 SXT 6v 3.5 and it looks like the problem only existed when I had a fast charger plugged into one of the car plugs. For some reason, the katernator can't distribute enough power to the plug without shorting the dash gagues. Might vhrck my fuse and alternator tomorrow and I'll post back if I figure something out.
 
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ONEZ ST - forum police 😁
 
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so about a week and a half ago my ESP and BAS light came on. later that night out of no where, all my lights on my dashboard started flickering all crazy (battery, abs, brake , etc. ALL LIGHTS). while I was driving. then all of a sudden my car actually started like stalling on me(losing power) that I had to pull over to the side of the road. I waited for about like minute, without actually turning off the car, and put it back on drive and kept going. didn't do it again till later. and now here and there it does it.

went online and seen that it might be the ignition switch, so I changed and it still was doing. went ahead and changed the ignition cylinder, and it still did. so now I'm stuck on not knowing WHAT THE **** IT IS!! my thinking it's a short somewhere but idk.

talk to someone today and said it might be the,alternator but once again have no idea. I'm trying to figure it out before actually taking it to the dealer and spending allot of money there.

Has anybody had this problem before? or know what it is??

If someone could tell me how to upload a video so u guys can see.

please help fam!!!
Please let me know if you did found a solution on this…
I was driving home from work all of a sudden battery lights came on and every lights started blinking even wipers turn on themselves.. not only that when i was starting to slow down on a traffic lights, steering wheel was really hard to turn…luckily in a split seconds from crashing into another vehicle, instead of just hit the breaks and stop, I automatically hit gas pedal and everything started to working again🫨🫨😮‍💨 thank god i was safe…but pls if you can help me with this i would be much appreciated..thank you