Electrical Glitches

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RUMBLE BEE 1546

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Recently I have been having some strange things going on with a few things on my truck and it's getting a little bit aggravating.

1. The passenger side rear parking lamps won't work and then they do and then they stop again... It is almost like they work when they feel like it. It started last week when I noticed it wasn't working (upper or lower) so I contacted the guy I got them on ebay thinking it was the lights (aftermarket led tails). Then I come out that afternoon and it is functioning normally. It has been like that for a few days now and I don't want to get a ticket for it plus it looks bad.

2. Wipers on intermediate will go twice. I will put it on the lowest setting which is where it almost always is when it is raining and about every 10th pass, it will do it twice without stopping. This one is just making me scratch my head on why it all of the sudden started doing it within the last week.

3. The headlights will flash every once in a while. I was at a friends house picking something up so I had the truck running in his driveway to keep the heater going. We were standing by the front of my truck talking when all of the sudden the headlights flashed on and off real quick. Then last week I unlocked the truck and they did it again. I know when I had my HIDs installed they would do this after the truck was sitting for any length of time as a bulb check but it has never happened with my halogens in the past. When it happened by friend said that they do the occasionally when were driving together.

Someone told me it might've been the SC tuner somehow so I set the truck to stock and no dice.

I am concerned that all of these issues are linked somehow. I have heard of the fusebox going band and I really don't want it to be something like that. :shakehead: Any help would be appreciated.
 

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Not sure about the flashing lights, but the wipers acting crazy is pretty common. My 03 and my 07 both did this as well, and neither truck had more then 30k miles on it when I noticed this.
 
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RUMBLE BEE 1546

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That is interesting about the wipers, I haven't heard of that before. Is there a way to fix it or is it just a shrug it off thing? It has been raining off and on for the past few weeks and it just started last week.

I'm not too concerned about the wipers. The headlights are a lil frustrating but hopefully it will stop when I reinstall the HIDs. I'm just a perfectionist with things and want them to be flawless :secret:

I need for the tail light to work though before I get stopped for it. I did some digging and apparently there was an issue with some 2nd gen ram's where the headlights would flash on and off rapidly sometimes and it ended up being the headlight switch. The owners would replace that and it went away. I don't know if this could be a possibility...
 

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