What Crazy Electrical gremlins do you have??

[tacotacotaco]

Ill start off. When I turn on my map lights my seatbelt lights turn on. Also before i redid my steering wheel my horn would only honk when turned 180deg. Also when my auto seatbelt opens my clock turns of and only turns on when its closed.

What strange elec problems do you guys have?

[ManoNegra]

My headlights turn on but don't pop up, I have to push the dash button for them to come up. Just started happening a couple of months ago.

[ThatGuy]

Whenever I adjust my drivers seat (slide it forward or back) my seatbelt chime will randomly go off for the following week. That's my S13 Electrical Gremlin. Also when I bought the car my tailights were dimmer on one side, but I solved that by cleaning the grounds inside the housings.

[FlyingChicken]

steering wheel horn only honks at 180 degrees

for the guy that has this problem, you should take the steering wheel off lightly sand and then re-grease the contact points.

this happened to me when i put on a momo hub, i had to dremel off the plastic surrounding the hub to get a nice contact.

[DrIvEsldEwAyS]

if i open my door twice after the car cutting off the hazard lights flicker untill i put the key in and turn it. also if i use my windshield wipers for a good amount of time a day they will not cut off unless i take the fuse out.

[Pennyman]

My girlfriend's S13 dash lights flicker between the day setting and the night setting when she has the headlights on. She also has the most schizophrenic temperature gauge known to man. I mean it jumps all over the place. Goes down while cruising goes up to max at idle. I checked the engine, it was not overheated.

My 280z doesn't have too many gremlins, but here's kinda one: I had to rewire the turnsignals, so whenever the headlights are on, it takes like 2 seconds for the signal to light up after I flip the switch.

[rancid240]

My headlights turn on but don't pop up, I have to push the dash button for them to come up. Just started happening a couple of months ago.


Same here.......

[hellion240sx]

i have my headlights up all the time (all the way up not sleepy eyes) and sometimes the passengers sicde will go out every now and then. till i either hit the hi beams or turn it off and on again. DAMN THESE ELECTRICAL GREMLINS!!!!!

[Dousan_PG]

painless wiring now
no problems to be reported, sir!

['90RPS13]

I got the deal with the headlights not coming up. Other then that, thats about it. *a

[REDSH!FT]

painless wiring now
no problems to be reported, sir!

I hope to say the same thing once my car is all wired up.

[tacotacotaco]

steering wheel horn only honks at 180 degrees

for the guy that has this problem, you should take the steering wheel off lightly sand and then re-grease the contact points.

this happened to me when i put on a momo hub, i had to dremel off the plastic surrounding the hub to get a nice contact.


Thanks flying chicken yeah i knocked it out when i changed to a personal wheel.

[Gnnr]

I can only get the sunroof to go into the tilt position if its the third thursday of the month on a leap year and there is a full moon.

My horn stays stuck in a wierd way. The sound it makes is like a plusing type beep not one long beep. I pulled the fuse out months ago. lol.

I have the stock radio, when I turn it on it'll stay on for a few seconds, then turn off. I have to do this back and forth for a while untill it stays on. The CD player no longer works. (Alpine HU coming when I'm no longer broke)

[undesiredshoe]

if i touch my wiper switch, my wipers turn on for a couple minutes then stop. People look at me for having my wipers on when all i did was use some wiper fluid.

[sean350z]

all of my interior lights (except boost controller and gauges) and exterior lights pulse when the car is idling...alternator is good and so is battery

once driving everything seems to be fine or it just pulses so fast I can't tell it's happening

[WERDdabuilder]

when i press my brake, all dash lights dim.

all my brake lights work..but when i press it..one of em turns off.

[ThatGuy]

Sounds like a lot of people need to go through their vehicles and clean all the grounding points they can find. Myself included. :keke: That should solve alot of the light dimming problems at least.

[IWantRWD]

my passanger low-beam is wired into the drivers low-beam, and when i hit the brights all my lights cut out..hopefully im going to fix that this weekend

[Team Rootbeer]

when i roll my drivers side window down all the way, the little automatic power window amp box thingy will click, and idle drops about 200rpm, then click again and idle goes back up-i guess that thing drains alot of power lol

id fix it or get a new one, but im lazy and s14s are scarce at the local pull-a-part and those boxes are even harder to find!

[sean350z]

when i roll my drivers side window down all the way, the little automatic power window amp box thingy will click, and idle drops about 200rpm, then click again and idle goes back up-i guess that thing drains alot of power lol

id fix it or get a new one, but im lazy and s14s are scarce at the local pull-a-part and those boxes are even harder to find!

mine does that too...a simple solution is to put it up a centimeter after all the way down...it will not click anymore :hsdance:

[downshift_sideways]

This is a bit wierd, bit on my s14 whenever I push on the brakes the stereo resets hahaha. I've been cleaning out the wires in my dash, I've located all of the stereo component wires, along with the negative postiive and nneutral.

Hopefully i can get this shit solved asap. Because I would like to listen to the music for at least 1 minute or so before the bitch resets on me.

[2iv0 sx]

Well.. my auto seatbelt doesnt like to work whenever my gas tank is low... WTF?

[Team Rootbeer]

mine does that too...a simple solution is to put it up a centimeter after all the way down...it will not click anymore :hsdance:

haha, thats exactly what i do......laziness ftw

[tacotacotaco]

Well.. my auto seatbelt doesnt like to work whenever my gas tank is low... WTF?

Lol thats a crazy one' "hmm seatbelts not working i should get gas"

[Gnnr]

^That may have something to do with the fuel pump and its ground/power wires?

[Brian]

turn signals don't work, but hazards do.
radio won't work right. will turn and and off and on and off.

[ledzeppelin240]

When I turn on my map lights my seatbelt lights turn on. Also when my auto seatbelt opens my clock turns of and only turns on when its closed.

This same thing happen to my car. It was a short just behind the radio in the wiring harness there. What happens is when you turn on the map light it is allowing the seat belt light to ground therefore tuning it on and so on with the other problems...

[juice.def]

if i situp in my seat or move quickly my stereo will cut out its pretty wack because i cant get hyphy while drivin haha.

[SimpleSexy180]

my car doesnt start. =[









AT ALL.

[skylinekin]

my headlights wont go down, and my seatbelt light always stays on and when I drive it flickers on and off, my cluster clock doesnt work, my third brake light doesnt work.

[MOUNTAINGARAGE]

My brake light acts like a shift light. comes on about 5500rpms. The tool that owned the car before me probably put a crap alternator in it, or the volt reg is going bad :hammer:

[Flipzide]

my headlights go up, but they dont go down. they also get stuck downsometimes and turn on without popping up.

[P4rD0nM3]

No problems reported. Thank god.

[cosil8e]

my e-brake light and battery lights stay on since my last track day. so if you want to steal my car while the turbo timer is counting down you can for that couple of minutes or so then of course it shuts down. i probably should fix that.

[Max_PSi]

My HVAC only blows air on setting 4. 1,2, and 3 don't work. I recently replaced the little lights that light up the HVAC controls, prolly did something then, but don't really feel like opening it all up again.

[ledzeppelin240]

My HVAC only blows air on setting 4. 1,2, and 3 don't work. I recently replaced the little lights that light up the HVAC controls, prolly did something then, but don't really feel like opening it all up again.

Your blower motor resisters are shot. All you need to do is replace the little resister chip that is just behind the glove box. Speed 4 is run off the battery and does not pass through the resister thats why it works.

[mRclARK1]

My ebrake light stays on all the time...It's annoying, but I haven't bothered to figure out whats wrong and fix it.

[NismoSilvia270R]

my car doesnt start. =[









AT ALL.

well mine started, 6months ago. then i come back try to start it and sparks fly from near(cant verify FROM) the injectors.

NOW the car wont start, Fpump wont turn on with key...blabla. long story short cars gotta go/*shameless plug*

[s14slide]

Well lets see. My whole dash will randomly flick off for a split second every once in a while. The right headlight do some weird stuff. The right one is disconnected cuz it's possessed and I haven't diagnosed it yet. But the headlights come on for no particular reason every once in a while. At first it was only when it rained. Not when it was drying out and I hit puddle after puddle, but only when it rained. Not even the car wash did it. It would do it even if it just sprinkled enough to make the car look wet then stopped. Thats all I can think of for now.

[AllenRPS13]

all of the interior lights on the dash... i mean those on the hazard button, rear wiper, etc...

[Max_PSi]

Your blower motor resisters are shot. All you need to do is replace the little resister chip that is just behind the glove box. Speed 4 is run off the battery and does not pass through the resister thats why it works.


Good looking out. I'll look into it. :rawk:

[rancid240]

If your ebrake light is on, your brake fluid might be low...

[axiomatik]

For most of the people with headlights not popping up and/or retracting, the problem is most likely your headlights switch is worn out. The same thing happened to me, a couple of years ago, the headlights started to hesitate before the would go down, and occasionally hesitate when going up. Finally, they stopped going down at all (though they would pop up fine). The problem was worn out contacts within the stalk of the headlight switch. You can diagnose it easily by looking which pins have continuity for each position in the FSM and checking with a multimeter, only takes about 10 minutes to test. I bought a replacement combination switch from Performance Nissan for ~$75, $50-60 cheaper than my local dealer.

[skylinekin]

^^^thanks man, thats what I had it narrowed down too, ill see if it a new one works. New problems, every once in a while my wipers will randomly go on when start the car, or put the key in the on position.

[Kn1ves]

my fuel pump works 50% of the time

[skylinekin]

wow, so I replace my headlight stalk with a new "used" one. The plus side is now the headlights go up and down, but the highbeams dont work! Anyone know a fix for this, with my old stalk the high beams worked, is there a way I can take something from the old stalk and put it in the new one?

[SoSideways]

I touched the + terminal on the starter to the block via a wrench, then sparks flew, and now my car only gets 3.5v between the battery cables.

Checked all the fuses and fusible links, they are all fine.

The battery terminals show that the battery is still putting out 12.75v, and I even took it to Autozone and got the battery tested, and it came out fine.

So basically, I got another main harness with fuse boxes and relays and all that to put into the car. Hopefully that will fix the problems.

Prior to that though, I was messing with the HL retracting relay and crossed the wire, and I messed up the HL timer unit, so the HLs will only come up when I either use the button on the dash, or do a quick "high beam flash" for the lights to pop up.

[axiomatik]

wow, so I replace my headlight stalk with a new "used" one. The plus side is now the headlights go up and down, but the highbeams dont work! Anyone know a fix for this, with my old stalk the high beams worked, is there a way I can take something from the old stalk and put it in the new one?

You might be able to clean the contacts for the hi/lo beams by disassembling the combination switch, iirc. I had tried doing that for my headlight problem, but the contacts for the popup/retract switch are located within the stalk itself, and unreachable. I'm pretty sure you can access the hi/lo contacts.

[skylinekin]

k, ill give it a try

[rancid240]

I touched the + terminal on the starter to the block via a wrench, then sparks flew, and now my car only gets 3.5v between the battery cables.

Checked all the fuses and fusible links, they are all fine.

The battery terminals show that the battery is still putting out 12.75v, and I even took it to Autozone and got the battery tested, and it came out fine.

So basically, I got another main harness with fuse boxes and relays and all that to put into the car. Hopefully that will fix the problems.

Prior to that though, I was messing with the HL retracting relay and crossed the wire, and I messed up the HL timer unit, so the HLs will only come up when I either use the button on the dash, or do a quick "high beam flash" for the lights to pop up.

I have the same kind of thing going on right now, i have a intermittent drain on the battery, its putting out 7 volts disconnected but only 1 volt when its connected. Let me know if you fix that, Ill do the same.

[soreballz]

My radio and cluster clock stay on even when the key is off. I have to pull the fuse that controls them any time I park my car for more than 1 day. >_<

My clock only turns on when the headlights are off... Prolly something related to the wiring issue previously stated.

Also... my HUD cluster likes to pick and choose when it will light up at night. Its not really a weird electrical gremlin, just a broken solder koint that occasionally joins or something like that, but I figured it was worth mentioning anyway.

[redsuns3838]

my alarm goes off at random when i lock the car. guess it was just a bad alarm install..

i used to have a problem where the odometer would click the faster i drove the faster it would click. eventually my harness was rewired and the clicking went away

[rancid240]

My radio and cluster clock stay on even when the key is off. I have to pull the fuse that controls them any time I park my car for more than 1 day. >_<

My clock only turns on when the headlights are off... Prolly something related to the wiring issue previously stated.

Also... my HUD cluster likes to pick and choose when it will light up at night. Its not really a weird electrical gremlin, just a broken solder koint that occasionally joins or something like that, but I figured it was worth mentioning anyway.


Cluster clock is always on like that from the factory

[DaPCWiz]

hmmm.

defroster light is out...

i had a wierd problem where my pass side low beam would shut off when I put the high beams on... but then I punched the harness and it fixed it so idk...

my right rear corner light kept burning out when I bought the car... no idea why... ended up cutting and splicing the wire and powering it from somewhere else....

nothing else I can think of...

[Kallikak]

Driver's side headlight sometimes doesn't like to come on. I'm guessing there's a bad relay somewhere.

[Gearhead_42]

S14-
Passenger tails only come on after you thump 'em (or drive a few miles)... but only first thing in the morning. After that they're fine
Blower resistor blown, hi-fan
Driver window auto down at slightest touch of switch, no 2-position anymore
Airbag light blinkin, can't figure out the right resistor value to fool it...

S13-
Cluster doesn't work on cool damp mornings... then lights up nice as ever after you warm the car up. Tach always works
Slow drain on the battery, sometimes 3 days, sometimes overnight, and not enough juice to turn over. Charges fine when driving, a 30 minute drive charges it right up... just drains when the car is off...
E-fan never comes on, but not sure what temp it's set at.. or if it'll work at all with the SR harness. No AC anymore and no decent temp gauge yet...

[yokotas13]

my only problem is that the greddy FATT stays turned on saying off and illuminated all the time.

other than that, nothing

[sepulchral]

what would cause the e-brake and battery light to flicker under acceleration?

[DaPCWiz]

hmmm.

defroster light is out...

i had a wierd problem where my pass side low beam would shut off when I put the high beams on... but then I punched the harness and it fixed it so idk...

my right rear corner light kept burning out when I bought the car... no idea why... ended up cutting and splicing the wire and powering it from somewhere else....

nothing else I can think of...

Ahhhh I still have the right low beam turning off when the high beams are on problem. I find that if i kick / punch the headlight a few times it clicks on and stays on.... the harness looks pretty dried out / brittle.... maybe I should replace it.

[DaPCWiz]

what would cause the e-brake and battery light to flicker under acceleration?

alternator is on its way out. Had the same problem in both my 240 and g20.... died within hours of the lights starting to flash on the 240.... took 1.5 years to die on the G20.

[backroadtouge]

i think mines real funny. sometimes when my passengers have to open the door, the autobelts onnly move to top of the pillar, and they usually close the door and the belt will squeeze them to the seat. its all a funny action watching it :D

my friends s14 always has soem problem, like thebrake lights will sometimes not work. the radio will have to be reset if it get a little hot. other general fun stuff

[YucA]

if i switch the hvac to #4, my compressor shuts off, but the fans still blow.

Also, if i leave the ignition on without starting the car for a little while, when i pull the key out the EGI relay under the hood stays buzzing, and it will kill the batt. unless i start the car and shut it off again. 0_o

[Nuisance Crew]

if i touch my wiper switch, my wipers turn on for a couple minutes then stop. People look at me for having my wipers on when all i did was use some wiper fluid.

I used to have the same problem, wipers wouldn't turn off unless I turned off the engine for a sec. After years of dealing with it, I replaced the wiper amp and they work perfecly again, in my SOHC it's the green box mounted to the drivers side inner fender close to the firewall

[Gnnr]

if i switch the hvac to #4, my compressor shuts off, but the fans still blow.

May want to look at what ledzeppelin240 posted:

Your blower motor resisters are shot. All you need to do is replace the little resister chip that is just behind the glove box. Speed 4 is run off the battery and does not pass through the resister thats why it works.

[DaPCWiz]

Another wierd issue I had when I bought the car... the temp gauge looked like a boost gauge. It would go up with the revs until it hit the actual temp, stay there until I shifted, and then drop to C and start over again. I used to tell people I wired that to be my boost gauge until I fixed it by replacing the coolant temp sensor (stock na ka... lol)

[woodchuck]

my s14 isn't too bad. my wipers don't work and my door open indicator goes off and on while all the doors are closed shut.

my 200sx is on its death bed. odometer stoped working, max rpm on my tach is 3k. it will climb then just hold at 3k or drop back down. before my stereo got stolen i had to bust a fonz (punds on the juke box) to get it going.
:bigok: ayeeeh!

[YucA]

May want to look at what ledzeppelin240 posted:

yea, i was looking at what he said. But if #4 doesnt pass through the resistor, then how would i fix my problem?

[DaPCWiz]

yea, i was looking at what he said. But if #4 doesnt pass through the resistor, then how would i fix my problem?

mmmm there are 4 pathways, 1,2,3 go thru a resistor to reduce the current, which results in the fan running at slower speeds. 4 doesn't run thru the resister, and therefore the fan runs at full speed. When the resistor blows out (notice I said when, not if) 1,2,3 will stop working since they don't have an electrical pathway anymore. There is a little card with 4 pathways on it under the pass side dash called the blower motor resistor, it contains all four pathways. It must be replaced to make 1,2,3 work again.

'bout $20 new, cheaper used. quick fix. had the problem in both my 240 and G20.

[SoSideways]

I found out what my problem was.

It was a shorted out battery ground cable.

And now I have a new problem. Now everytime I open the door the clock goes away and I get no interior light. Everytime I go to replace that 10a fuse it will blow right away. There's a short somewhere in that circuit.

[Shocker_YO!]

were to start...
when any doors are open the clock disappears, then reappears when they shut at 1:00. when the car shuts off clock is done, start it up back at 1:00... Sometimes random unreal times 1:96.
Push in the dome light, open door light on the cluster turns on.
Auto belts wont move unless key is in the ON position.
Electric door locks randomly unlock themselves after a period of time.
Sometimes the guage cluster lights wont turn on.

GOOD TIMES!

[honduh]

defrost and hazard button lights burnt out
slider LED for hot/cold on climate control burnt out
sometimes one cluster light is half lit, then turns on all the way after awhile



also, u s14 guys should try this, its the "nissan wink" basically turn your headlight switch on verrrry slowly, and only one light turns on, works also if they are on and u start to turn them off very slowly, one will go out. i only did this once to see if my car was like my buddies (he showed me the "wink") and then I got HIDs, so I didnt want to mess them up. also works in my friends j30...

[DoriftoPnoy]

haha my shits a mess. all the wiring leading back to the ecu has some plugged in and some just laying around and just grounding themself. here's a couple things i noticed:
1. no horn
2. one speed windshield wiper that you have to bust a quick reaction time to have it turn off when its completely down
3. one of my dash lights would always be on but i took out the bulb so it duznt bug me. i forgot what light it was lol.
4. a lot of things could be wrong since the harness is a mess

so if anyone has a wiring harness prewired for an s14 sr20det in a s14 chassis let me knooow. i'll post this again in wtb

[Bigballin]

S14: speedometer would go out and my tachometer would start working or my tachometer would go out and the speedometer would work. rarely both would work ok at the same time.

also my tach. likes to bounce all over the place then just quit and not work :(

[PhoebusApollo]

I bet I've had more nightmares than anyone on here.

The positive connection to my alternator rotted out about 2 years ago and since then I've had one problem after another. It took me 2 weeks to realize that the wire was bad because the rotted part was in a plastic sheath. When I felt the sheath I hit a soft spot and when I opened it up powdered rusty wire came out. Ugh...

I replaced it with a wire sealed with heatwrap at both ends. Now, though, my car eats positive battery terminals. I go through 1 a year. I bought a new terminal this year that has an LED readout and it shows that the voltage is like 13.25v when the car is on, which I think is normal. But no matter what I do it gets this nasty powder all over the place and the insides of the terminals rot out.

Also my heater completely stopped working shortly after this all happened. I replaced the fuse (the one under the passengers side dash that looks like a card that screws in). Now the knob on the dash works (when I set it to on the engine idles harder so there's some kind of signal going on there) but the fan never comes on.

Lets see... that's about it.

[DaPCWiz]

also, u s14 guys should try this, its the "nissan wink" basically turn your headlight switch on verrrry slowly, and only one light turns on, works also if they are on and u start to turn them off very slowly, one will go out. i only did this once to see if my car was like my buddies (he showed me the "wink") and then I got HIDs, so I didnt want to mess them up. also works in my friends j30...

Infiniti G20s do the same thing...

I think all 90's nissans have the same type of highbeam switch & all do that...

[alpalwal1]

when i press my brake, all dash lights dim.

all my brake lights work..but when i press it..one of em turns off.

I've got something like that goind on..........

when i press the brakes my dash lights and parking lights light up

when I put the headlights on my brake lights are always on.

WTF

[Azzazzyn]

my driverside window is testy, it rolls up and down when it wants to, you can hear the relay click and you can roll it up and down, and it will click again and stop. my favorite gremlin is that you can't start my car unless you click on the corner lights. I had a chick steal my keys once and try to take my car, i laughed and said fine, you win take it. 15 minutes later, she gave up, came back in and threw my keys at me and told me i suck.

[ledzeppelin240]

when i press my brake, all dash lights dim.

all my brake lights work..but when i press it..one of em turns off.


I've got something like that goind on..........

when i press the brakes my dash lights and parking lights light up

when I put the headlights on my brake lights are always on.

WTF

I would check any grounds related to those circuits, the power could be backfeeding due to high resistance grounds. I have seen where bulb filiments have shorted to the other filiment and when the brakes were applied it lights up the dash lights because they are electrically connected. Shorts and high resistance grounds cause quite a lot of problems...

[smily_vigor]

(S13) One day my wipers stopped working, but the way it happened I was sure it was the motor that went bad. They slowly came to a jerking stop and nerver worked again. I checked the fuse and it was perfectly fine. Being lazy I decided not to fix it (used rain x in the meanwhile). Then one day I was driving in the rain and they suddenly came on but the switch was in the off position. While that was occuring I noticed that the Cuise light on my cluster was on (the switch for that was also off). Then every bump I would hit the cruise light and the ABS (antilock) light would alternate. While one was on the other was off and vice versa. When the cruise light was on the wipers would be going but then hitting a bump the ABS light would come on and the wipers would be dead again. This went on for about three days then everything stopped (wipers stopped working again and cruise light went off) but the ABS light stayed on constant now. I drove with it like that for about a month then yesterday I decided to check all my fuses in the car again. Now the wiper fuse was blown so I replaced that and the ABS actuator relay fuse was blown too so I replaced that. (remember these fuses were all good when the problems were going on) Started the car and the ABS light was no longer on and now my wipers work perfectly with the switch. Now that is some weired shit. Now my only problem is that the car is always fogging up. The vent (or recirculation) button on the climate control works perfectly lighting up when pressed on and going on when pressed again but I don't think it's actually opening the little door or whatever it does. This obiously just started as soon as the other problems were fixed. Just my luck

[Gnnr]

Heh, I had a similar situation with my wipers acting up. One time it was because I had my e-fan ghetto wired and unfused. The other time was because the clamps for my battery terminals where loose and corroded.

[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

[Sir]

my gas gauge doesn't work untill i got less than a 1/4 left

my wipers are weird. sometimes work fine, sometimes the delay doesn't work at all. if i touch the green box - they'll go on for a single swipe - every time!! I already replaced it with another one that I had from a car that it was working fine. his is still working fine (with my box) and mine is still fubared :(

thinking about painless wiring

[DaPCWiz]

my gas gauge doesn't work untill i got less than a 1/4 left

That's not a wiring issue... the sender in your gas tank by the fuel pump is shot... pretty common problem on '95s..... my old '95 had that problem.

[upSLIDEdown]

Something is shorting out in my fuse panel behind the kickpanel. Sometimes my dash lights don't come on (which also includes my tail lights) when I turn on the headlights. If I kick on the kick panel or push on the fuse panel behind it, they will flicker and come on.

Also, highbeams are ghey. Used to be the passenger one would work sometimes, sometimes not. Now neither high beam works most of the time, but sometimes the drivers will... GHEY!

[Jefferson]

My problems in my '95 are not too bad but are annoying as hell
-drivers side window only goes up when it wants
-temp gauge acts crazy unless I am in 5th gear around 3-3.5k
-airbag light came on all of a sudden and hasn't shut off since
-usual gas gauge not reading correctly
Thats about it I think (I hope)
if anyone can help me out with any of these problems let me know

[articdragon192]

Power door locks kinda work. Driver side doesnt open or close passenger side. However passenger side opens driver side, but doesnt lock it.
Also the electronics in my hatch dont work ;_;

[Azzazzyn]

My problems in my '95 are not too bad but are annoying as hell
-drivers side window only goes up when it wants
-temp gauge acts crazy unless I am in 5th gear around 3-3.5k
-airbag light came on all of a sudden and hasn't shut off since
-usual gas gauge not reading correctly
Thats about it I think (I hope)
if anyone can help me out with any of these problems let me know
I have the same driver side issue, still don't know what makes it so tempermental, and i had the same airbag deal, took it to the dealer but they couldn't fit me in for a check, so i checked the fuses, and low and behold, the fuse was blown, saved my ass alot of money.

[DaPCWiz]

My problems in my '95 are not too bad but are annoying as hell
-drivers side window only goes up when it wants
-temp gauge acts crazy unless I am in 5th gear around 3-3.5k
-airbag light came on all of a sudden and hasn't shut off since
-usual gas gauge not reading correctly
Thats about it I think (I hope)
if anyone can help me out with any of these problems let me know

-window: i'm not sure... could be the power window amp?

-temp gauge: take the connector off the intake temp sensor near the intake manifold (by the upper radiator hose to the block), clean off the contact point and put it back

-airbag light: there is a reset procedure... I think 240sx.org has it? something about pushing the door sensor 7 times with the key on acc also point to note: on my '95 the airbag light was blinking from the day I bought it... got into an accident a few months ago, and they deployed as they should anyway...

-gas gauge: the sender in ur tank is misaligned or broken... need to dive into there from the plate on the hump between the back seats and trunk

[WERDdabuilder]

got more stuff.

pass auto belt works when it wants to.

when i press the brake..it blows the fuse.

sometimes car doesnt want to start. ill let it roll and pop the clutch once(but engine doesnt start) then turn the key and maybe ill get lucky and the car will start. sometimes ill just wait it out and the car will start whenever.

any help?

[[email protected]]

the only gremlin i have is the lights for my gauge cluster not turning on and if that isnt on it doesnt show my MPH damn electrical speedo gauge.

[bardabe]

The only electrical issue that I got that after I take the key out of the ignition sometimes the Temp gauge and the Ebrake light wont turn off. ohh yeah and I replaced my wiper motor with a USDM one and my wipers are backwards I gotta figure out how ot wire it up to make it work. lol

[hollywood7]

when i press the brake..it blows the fuse.
i had that problem. it was water getting in the tailight housing creating the short

my current problems are

1.the intermittent wipers won't work and when i turn off the wiper it just stops right where it is.:confused:

2.whenever i push the rear defrost button the brake lights come on. but the 3rd brake light doesn't work any other time.:loco:

[WERDdabuilder]

yeah, i thought it was a short in the housing cause the wires were all melted and nasty from the pre-owner. so i picked up one from the junkyard..replaced it...and still blew the fuse..so im guessing it might be a bad ground somewhere in the wiring of the fuse box.

[NismoStoner]

when i push my brakes, my day lights come on, dashlights, turn signals, and tail lights. Also at night when i have my lights on my tail lights are lit as if im pressing the brake, all the time. yay for 240s haha

[S13 Charlie]

Just recently, my gas gauge has started to act weird. I know gas gauge issues have been mentioned, but only for 95's, and I have a 1991. It reads fine until there's about 1/3 of a tank left, then it just dips down, down, down, until it's below E. I assume it's the sending unit in the tank, do I access it from the trunk? Are there any seals that I need to replace if I open it up from there? One other general question.. Does anyone have any good tips for cleaning up battery terminals? Mine are getting pretty nasty, and I want to do some maintenance.

[ms!3]

drivers side seatbelt doesnt work sometimes, they only work when the key is in. no inside lights work except cluster and hud. when i press the button for the map light my seatbelt light comes on in the cluster. and my light on the cluster that says the doors are open is always on. lol alot of problems that need to be fixed.

['90RPS13]

Well with the new hatch I have a few:

1. Let off the gas, ebrake light comes on.
2. No gauge cluster lights
3. Pass. seatrail jam's!

Thats all I have found in the day I have had it. *a

[SlowCoupe]

none really =) knock on wood, besides the a/c heating controls are somewhat dimm.

[S13 Charlie]

Well, my gas gauge has decided to work well again, though sometimes it slips up. I'm pretty sure the float in the tank was just getting stuck.. New problem: I turned on my headlights this AM and the gauge cluster did not light up. I gave it a couple of taps and it came on. A few minutes later, I went to get gas and when I turned my lights on that time, the cluster didn't light up again, even after some tapping. It came on after I got on the freeway though. I'm thinking I might have to just pull the cluster and check the connectors behind it. 15+ years and daily driving on coilovers probably knocked something loose. Also, I was looking under the hood and in the corner behind the driver side headlight I found what looked like 50 wires all connected to a bolt. Is this what people are referring to when they say Nissan tends to ground too many connections together? Does anyone have any advice on cleaning this area up? Thanks,

Charlie

[steve shadows]

well recently on my hatch, which is awaiting an new reubuilt engine by dec,


the freakin head lamp (s13) s both of them will only go down via motor but not up, the motor is fine the arms are fine, the relays have all been replaced wtih new ones, the fuses are fine, the wiring looks to be ain great shatpe, i guess its time for a conversion of some sort. :mepoke:

[hellion240sx]

so i installed some indiglo gauges. lol. i had them and they burnt out like 8 years ago, and i never had the balls to install them myself cuz it was a real pain. so it rained on night really hard and i left both windows cracked. long story short guttted the whole car. too dash off seats out no carpet. just a one seater now. well turbo times stopped working. not sure but a fuse kept blowing, chime and clock would notwork. anf when it did, i would open the door and they would stop working. a/c lights don't work anymore. thats about it. but ppl say that the greddy turbo timer craps out. not sure if thats what this one did. i'll poke around again later on.

[r_seng]

when i turn on my wiper, my brake light flickers.

[WERDdabuilder]

well elec problem i had..fixed =D. had to remove old alarm system(pre owner) that was eating all the power to start my car. brake fuse problem..random wire hangin down in teh trunk.

woot.

[Vlasic]

when i push my brakes, my day lights come on, dashlights, turn signals, and tail lights. Also at night when i have my lights on my tail lights are lit as if im pressing the brake, all the time. yay for 240s haha

I got the same problem on my '96. When I press my brake pedal my parking lights come on and all my interior dash lights come on.

[spinitsidewayz]

My lights dim when i press the brake, but they get brighter when i rev my engine. Thats about it.

My odometer just took a crap on me today...

[FaLKoN240]

IF ANYONE CAN HELP.

That's the only reason I'm posting in this thread.

My car's climate control venting system doesn't work.

The fan's work, and the heat works, but the VENT DUCTS are stuck on FACE and FOOT vent.

I can't get my windshield defrost to work, it's really shitty on these cold days.

The LEDs above the buttons don't light up, my AC button doesn't work either. I dunno if that can help anyone that knows how to diagnose and/or fix my problem, if you know what to do, please PM me. I don't wanna take my dash apart if I don't have to.

[Wykydtron]

There is a back lit issue on my tac. the ones that turn on around the tac are fine but the back lits down kick in. I also have issues with the pivot control modulator.

My last coupe had a wierd grimlen... I'd always take the back roads at night and max out on this one straight away. at around 100mph I'd see all the dash lights/accessories flicker. The car would then start pulling harder then before. x_X really wierd shit.

[foodawg]

after the sr swap my hud and digital display stopped reading , my reverse lights dont work and my front right signal doesnt work... damnit its not hard to fix but its a hassle lol

[Ninjabread]

My HVAC lights decide when they are on/off and also, sometimes my temp gauge trips out if i bring the motor up around 6k.

[Gnnr]

My lights dim when i press the brake, but they get brighter when i rev my engine.

Well, to get you brainstorming- when you hit your brakes, your brake lights turn on, thus drawing power. They get brighter when you rev up, because the alternator is producing more juice. So something isn't getting enough power for some reason or something. Don't know that may be.

[smelly240]

im guessing his battery is in th etrunk ^^^ run some more groun wiring to more places - it stopped my problem just like that

My gremlin - my Wipers no longer work since i got the car back from paint - and im not letting them touch my car again - im guessing somewhere from the wiper amplifier to the rest of th estuff theres a problem... because i am pretty sure i checked continuity between the switch and the wiper amplifier

[dopeyx27]

When I step on the gas hard enough, the Overdrive flickers on and off and my car wobbles back and forth. LOL. Still working on that problem.

[racedk6]

When its really cold outside like 20 degrees my light on in the gauge cluster for the door flickers.

My temp gauge works when it wants and so does my trip and odometer.

If I put my map light to the postition where you open the door and it comes on, it will turn itself on taking corners fast.

My open door chime is always on when the door is open even without the key in the ignition.

Once in a great while when I push the clutch in the eheck engine light will turn on in between shifts.

Im just gonna leave it till I get the SR swap done

[Sir]

sometimes when i turn on my wipers to the first click, the tach stops working. off/2/3rd it works just fine :(
1998 SE

[Matej]

http://a162.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/9/l_b258abeefd810ee488ecd3405d53a389.gif

[ZX88]

my pasenger side head light when the high beams are applied doesnt come on well it does every once in a while and when i flash the high beams when pulling back on the head light knob every thing is fine. can someone pm me if they know how to fix this.

[lucky7]

someone spliced a wire into my TPS. so i fried 2 PFC's and 3 AEM ems's...
but it runs now.

[timlush]

I got a good one, when I open the passenger door, my gas light comes on... WTF??

I need a new cluster. Car has a JDM cluster and the gas gauge is broke and some of the cluster lights stay dimly lit even with the car completely off.

['90RPS13]

E-Brake Light Flashes
Oil Light Flashes
Headlights Occasionally work

Wierd one:

Air Cuts off 10-12 seconds after the ignition is turned off. Never had that happen in the 5 S13's I have owned.

[ALEXTHESUS*PECT]

if i make a right turn with my headlights on the wipers go on by themselves. the only way to stop it is to put the wiper controller arm down one "click" to the intermitent position. now i no longer have intermittent wipers.

[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. :confused:

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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 :bash::bash:

[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.

[Roc]

Mine, is when my battery becomes disconnected the key wil get locked in the ignition thats when I have to turn the key to have it become released... after I regain power. Oh my dash stays lit up and I have to start the car and turn it off to fix it.. IT might be fixed now I just put in a new cluster...

[louisdaboois]

i dont have much, but I have a 240 hatch and when i turn the headlight off, the eyes come down at the same time, but the passenger winks up and down a couple times. kind of like it's waving good bye to me haha.

[Mangudai]

nvm..fixed.

[SleepR 240sx]

When I turn on my headlights my dash lights go out. Yeah driving at night is an adventure. lol

Gas gauge goes from full to below empty to 1/4 to empty in five seconds....then stays at empty lol

Odo doesn't work...clock backlight doesn't work...interior lights randomly flicker when I hit a bump...sometimes they just flicker lol

drivers side seatbelt doesn't work...radiator fans turn on with the acc...speaker wires were so f'ed up i pulled em all and rewired everything myself...dimmer switch doesn't work...i'm sure there's more

[kuruptR]

when i press my brake lights, one of my highbeams goes on. My reverse dont work any more. :( I had to get HIDs to fix the brake light problem.

[decco]

My wipers refuse to turn on sometimes until the car has been running for 5-10 minutes, I know when I can use them because they'll sweep accross twice and then stop.

[B_mart24]

ive got a couple:

1.) my tach never works, only time i see a flicker is when i first start the car (jumps up to 1500 then striaght back down to 0) and when i am at WOT it jumps a little, but thats it...

2.)my center dash light used to flicker on and off every once in a while, now they never come on any more...

3.)my stock fog lights dont work, ive checked all the wireing and replaced the bulbs and check voltage and everything seems to be ok, just they NEVER turn on...

any help is greatly appreciated...thank you

[steve shadows]

let me see....



none

[Mr. H]

not really mine but a friends speedo turned off everytime she turned on the ac.

[629RWHPstang]

dam hondas are so much better when it come to wire problems

[shade]

My seatbelts only work when the key is in. I'm getting tired of having to disconnect both lap and shoulder, then sit, then connect both again.

[muddafakka]

1) The interior lighting flickers if I hit a bump.

2) The AC lights don't come on sometimes at night, but other times they do.

3) My top goes up and down fine but getting the quarter windows back up takes a bit of effort. The buttons for them can be unresponsive at times. Gotta press them real hard for them to work.

4) The seat belt light will show even though I have my seatbelt on.

[midnightouge]

Sometimes my car wont turn on untill the seatbelts are all the way back, and only one of my highbeams work.

[DreamN]

Umm... my dimmer doesn't seem to work and each time I press on my brake lights the far left one goes out. I think that's pretty much it.


Oh and my HVAC unit sometimes needs a gentle tap so the lights turn on.

[dsc4130]

my taillights have a problem, when the running lights are on all 4 lights are on but when i step on the brakethe lights will just switch to the right side lights working, so it kinda looks like my lights are dancing. it was awsome until i failed safety hahaha other than that, been through ka24e, ka24deX2, ca18det,sr20det, and rb20det with no problems

[DreamN]

Anyone know what the "Stop Light" fuse is all about? My brake lights work fine, but this fuse keeps blowing on me. It's frustrating. I don't even know what the damn thing is for or notice anything wrong lighting wise yet this sucker keeps going out.

[HS13KLS]

When I turn on my headlights my dash lights go out. Yeah driving at night is an adventure. lol

Gas gauge goes from full to below empty to 1/4 to empty in five seconds....then stays at empty lol

Odo doesn't work...clock backlight doesn't work...interior lights randomly flicker when I hit a bump...sometimes they just flicker lol

drivers side seatbelt doesn't work...radiator fans turn on with the acc...speaker wires were so f'ed up i pulled em all and rewired everything myself...dimmer switch doesn't work...i'm sure there's more


i have the same problem...(only with the dashlights turning off when the headlights turn on... i cant figure it out.. but when i do.. ill get a hold of you. ha.

[blackej7]

Heres a good one:

Watch my coolant temperature gauge while I open and close the glove box.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny0Uv1k96Nc



(This problem no longer exists haha)

[HS13KLS]

^^

WTF!!! hahahha i laughed for so long..

and +1 for 2 reasons... you live in illinois/funny video

[Skeeg]

best video..... ever!

[Future240]

I don't have a 240 yet, but in my current vehicle if my driver side door speaker gets in the wrong position, it can either turn off the mids and leave the subs playing or it can make the subs and the mids play as if some one was flippin an on off swith really fast

[wangan_cruiser]

my driver side seatbelt do act up once in a while too. it pisses me off when itll stop working :madfawk: :madfawk: :madfawk:

[wangan_cruiser]

Heres a good one:

Watch my coolant temperature gauge while I open and close the glove box.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny0Uv1k96Nc



(This problem no longer exists haha)


holy shit....hahaha cool vid....



i need to turn my steering wheel so i can use my horn

[wangan_cruiser]

Anyone know what the "Stop Light" fuse is all about? My brake lights work fine, but this fuse keeps blowing on me. It's frustrating. I don't even know what the damn thing is for or notice anything wrong lighting wise yet this sucker keeps going out.


you have a short in your wires. find it and fix it, itll never go away unless u fix it

[Oo_Skyline_oO]

hahahahahaha that video was hella funny. I beleive tha'd be the blue and black wire on your dash plug. correct me if i was wrong please. Also, my new hatch, when one pop up goes up, one goes down, and visaversa. its like she winks!!!!! lol

[WERDdabuilder]

um, my driver brake light goes out when i press the brake. i guess in the housing, the wire that hooks the tab to the light gets too hot and melts the plastic that its screwed down to. and it only happens to the driver side.

[Pink Slut]

my rear wiper stops whenever it feels like it. halfway on the window or where ever.
my HU display flashes occasionally
whenever the shed stalls, it just wont start for excactly a minute, but that might be my immobiliser

[BustedS13]

when my car's between like 2000-3000 rpm's, there's a buzzing noise that comes from AROUND the instrument cluster. but it's not the cluster. i've had two clusters in it and both times, buzzing. no idea what it is, it's annoying as shit.

[SuicidnS13]

My passenger side taillight/ brake light causes the inside light to go out when I press on the brakes. Or it just stays bright or doesnt work at all. LOL

[sijia10358]

when i turn off my car, my windshield wiper water light goes on...its like an alarm light!!...weird...

[TurboNetic05]

I dont really have any big ones but...
-Driver side window clicks but will not go up or down
-Dome and reading lights do not work unless the key is in the on position
-Not sure if its an electrical problem but i have to hit my power lock switch to unlock, lock, unlock, lock to get my driver side door to lock.
-Antenna just now stopped going up and down. Dunno why

But thats it, nothing bothers me really other than the window and lock

[snowmansent2hel]

heater fan motor is stuck has to be "persuaded" to work, and when i turn my steering wheel to the right the heat cuts out until the wheel is straightened back out or turning left

[dori_sil8t]

my hvac only works on 4 replaced everything.. umm one night out dickn around my head lights went out at 1am next day workd fine??? some times the right side pop up stays up but goes down after a min. swapd back to pop ups wired everything prefect and now no hi beams?

[yellowxhoodie]

in my s13, seatbelts only work when the car is on, headunit doesnt work, just flahses at the same time as the 'open door' light on the dash, dome lights dont work, and when i try to turn them on, 'door light' on dash stays on.

im sure its a fuse, anyone know which one off the top of their head so i dont have to check a bunch?

[airhead]

Same here.......

me too!!! wat could it be?

[Dazzla]

If i hit a pothole really hard, the alarm's immobilizer prevents me from starting the car after i've turned it off...

[MandTPhotography]

My digital dash will randomly decide to change MPH, and sometimes change from MPH to KMH when it's cold.

My dash lights flicker like a crackhead at night and sometimes just don't work.

My turbo timer randomly cuts off and on by itself.

[MandTPhotography]

Fucking double post.

[s14>integra]

^^ my dash lights flicker too, but only when i have my high beams on. also recently my car temp and gas gauge lights went out.

[turbotofu]

none of my electricals work until i turn on the car, and give a light rev, then everything works. Well my headlights are the only thing that can turn on while the cars off lol, only the lights they can't pop up or close.

[s.steven18]

push in the hazzards and my blinkers dont work.

[Gordo714]

1. clock works but resets everytime car turn off so its always 1:00 when i get in the car
2. if i turn the dome light on the clock turns off but the dome light does not even work
3. power windows will not roll up when its hot?.. so i sit there and hit the switch up and down or down 3 times fast then up and it works
4. seat belt light and door light turn on and start to chime even if seat belt is on and door closed.
5. seat belt does not slide forward when i open the door unless the car is still on... so when i park and turn car off car i have to unbuckle manualy
6. and my radio did not work for a while but i did some crazy rewiring on the fuse box and it worked


this is why all this happens
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h23/passthewire/IMG00127-20090705-1508.jpg

[yellowxhoodie]

damn, alot of the same problems im having, except my fuse looks fine, i even tried replacing it and it still didnt fix the problems

[omgshawn]

On my friends coupe, if you tapped the EGI relay 3 times in a row the headlights would come up. no lie I was like wtfff

On my car the alarm would randomly go off and cut my starter. And it would auto lock itself. And my wipers would come on by themself and not shut off unless I turned the car off. It ended being from my harness being rubbed through cause it wasn't tucked.

[driven_]

when i start my car and its at the "on" position, i have to slightly turn it 2-3mm again for the clock/stereo to work.

[AE_Racer]

no wipers, no cluster power, and it takes 2+ bumps of the starter to start my car...all after rubbing my harnesses in the fenders

[roninwon]

the ignition switch fuse blew leaving me stranded so xspertsnowcarver came out with new fuses, put one in and it blew,tried it again same result. so he towed me back to his place, we went over the FSM and saw that the ignition switch only goes to one place one the colum. so we ran a new wire put in a new fuse and car started right up we were stoked. i pulled the car out and started driving it about 80 feet until the fuse popped again. again we ripped out everything looking for a problem, couldnt find a thing so we buttoned it back up and started it everything is fine no more blown fuses. i dont get it cause we didnt fix a thing after the fuse blew again.

[jworks]

-clock is blank most of the time, but when I hit a bump it would sometimes turn on
-map lights don't work, but if I turn it on seatbelt warning light turns on
-seatbelt warning light comes on and off randomly
-passanger side headlight turns on and off sometimes
-high beams don't work

Hmmm I'm pretty sure theres more

[kuppler8]

my car shuts off at red line, like never makes it to the limiter, then wont start again for a little while. it makes it really hard to mslide in the city, cause if it revs to high i become a sitting duck lol

[stinky_180]

only one i have

one light pops up when turning the headlights on. randomly, the other light will pop up. both wont go down after turning the headlights off.

im sure theres solutions but i dont mind twistin dem knobs

[KoukiMonsta]

my car wont always start, random ass shit i hate it so much,. damn 240's

[Rabboni]

I had a heck engine light for every single emissions component on my s14. Drove without registration for 8.5 months cause it wouldnt pass smog. I figured out that no component had power. Alldata lied to me and said each component had a different fuse, but the fsm proved that they did. When i check that fuse in the box it was missing. I replaced it and nothing. I soon found out that the idiot who owned it before me yanked the wire out of the fuse box to cheaply delete his emissions stuff. FUCKING MORON!
Also whenever i accelerate and go for a shift the coolant temp gauge goes out for a second.

[nathanong87]

speedo/odo doesn't work register anything. and my vss is plugged in.

[s13dan]

HUD dosnt work if it 20 degrees or colder unless the car has a long time to warm up.

On my race car the headlights will NOT go down on there own! The will come up fine, and even go down then up if i leave a switch in the on posistion and try to close them manually??

[iviScYth3ivi]

When I plug my alternator fuse in, the windshield wipers turn on and go up and down twice and then stop, and my HVAC turns on and off but none of the buttons work to change the vents, when I hooked it up to battery charger, it tries to start itself lol

[repda916]

can some help me:
my car was bought with a battery kill switch
therefore, i turn the switch and all my lights go on(head lights, side markers, guage cluster etc) i turn the key my car starts.
how do i get rid of this kill switch? what wires make the lights stay on allll the time?

[Geezy]

http://a162.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/9/l_b258abeefd810ee488ecd3405d53a389.gif
ROFLMAO. WTF?

anyway... here are my gremlins.
91 S13 with redtop sr. and my battery is in the trunk.

1. flip ups are stuck in the up position.
-when i manually screw them down, and hit the flip switch, they'll dance up and down once or twice and stay up.
(I already replaced the multifunctional switch tree stack.)

2. passenger side low beam doesn't work. but high beams work all around. (used to be the opposite.)

3. power door locks: passenger door wont unlock using driver's side switch, but locks driver's side door using passenger side switch.

4. passenger window goes down really slow. window amp maybe??

5. speedo will jump to show a higher than actual speed. tap it, and it will drop to normal. sometimes will stay all the way pass 120mph and stick there, then ODO wont work.

6. driver side seat belt wont go forward. but i got manual belts to install, so its whatever.


ANY ADVICE???

[LayNLow]

http://a162.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/9/l_b258abeefd810ee488ecd3405d53a389.gif
ROFLMAO. WTF?

anyway... here are my gremlins.
91 S13 with redtop sr. and my battery is in the trunk.

1. flip ups are stuck in the up position.
-when i manually screw them down, and hit the flip switch, they'll dance up and down once or twice and stay up.
(I already replaced the multifunctional switch tree stack.)

2. passenger side low beam doesn't work. but high beams work all around. (used to be the opposite.)

3. power door locks: passenger door wont unlock using driver's side switch, but locks driver's side door using passenger side switch.

4. passenger window goes down really slow. window amp maybe??

5. speedo will jump to show a higher than actual speed. tap it, and it will drop to normal. sometimes will stay all the way pass 120mph and stick there, then ODO wont work.

6. driver side seat belt wont go forward. but i got manual belts to install, so its whatever.


ANY ADVICE???

That would be your headlight switch. Replace it and you should be good.

[devnull]

I splashed a large puddle and my whole car shut down for several seconds. Even the radio memory lost power. After that my left turn signal was stuck on until I turned the flashers on and off.

[Geezy]

That would be your headlight switch. Replace it and you should be good.

which switch are you referring to?
the one on the dash that controls the motion, or the multifunction tree?

[Mangudai]

when i roll my drivers side window down all the way, the little automatic power window amp box thingy will click, and idle drops about 200rpm, then click again and idle goes back up-i guess that thing drains alot of power lol

id fix it or get a new one, but im lazy and s14s are scarce at the local pull-a-part and those boxes are even harder to find!


Thought it was just me..except if I dont move it up it will just keep clicking and causing the idle to go down at idle till I move it up.


haha, thats exactly what i do......laziness ftw


x3



Also I dont know if its considered a gremlin but the backlight for my clock works but the digits dont, my stereo doesnt work ever since i hit a pothole..if i shake my car while the stereo is playing it will cut in and out intermittently

[ki_JDM_ds]

my tach goes apeshit from time to time, other times it doesn't work at all, and usually it works like it should.

my my hvac fan speed wont work unless its on full blast (blower motor resistor i think?)

sometimes my ignition stutters when i start the car, like its not getting power or somthing, but it works fine afterwards

other than that she's sound as a pound. s14 btw

[backroadtouge]

My car wont hold a charge over a day it seems... time to find a voltmeter and pull fuses :(

[ghudson]

1991 s13:
Just bought it. The dash backlighting and digital speedo reading (along with hud) likes to cut on about halfway through driving somewhere.
Passenger window will work beautifully sometimes and other times (happening right now in my driveway) it likes to only operate when either passenger window switch is depressed down but wont operate when pressed up.
And wipers like to work about 5% of the time.
Taillights were a little dim, so I cleaned grounds and put dielectric grease on em. Theyre good now.
reverse lights dont work right now either, ill have to check up on that later (its not the bulbs, either switch or power problems...)

[stockbee]

The other day I looked at my boost gauge out of my peripheral in my 96 S14 w/S14 SR swap, and it was sitting at 7 lbs at like 15 percent throttle, which should have been reading some vacuum at that point. it works right half the time, but I have no idea what happened to it. Its a Pro sport, not the best but t's not the worst either.

[Xbroke_kidX]

My old hatch used to pop a fuse and the tail lights and cluster would go out. Searched everywhere in the car for a short and could never find a damn thing.

[DrifTGeeK510]

my ebrake light stays on and my speedo freaks out sometimes im sure its due to harness rubbing not sure about the ebrake light though

[Sterlz]

When I lock the semi power door locks, the passenger side cocks 3 or 4 times like a machine gun before it locks :confused:

[ReLiC]

When i'm driving (in gear) the oil, emergency, airbag lights turn on in cluster. But when i disengage gear, and roll in neutral, they all turn off and go back to normal... :goyou:

haven't had time to check the wiring, plus it isn't my dd, so i just have it parked.

[wolfvq37]

In my Charger the parking brake light was constantly on no matter if the pedal was all the way to the floor or all the way released...

I finally found out what the problem was after thinking it was an "electrical gremlin" the whole time... the brake actually was engaged all the time :hahano:

[JAYTRON]

Uhh.. My oil light comes on when I turn off my car.


but when I start the car it goes away. I changed the oil and oil pressure sensor and it still dose that.

pretty sure it's an electrical gremlin

[rbsilvias13]

EGI relay sticks on when i turn my car on. So i have to disconnect the negative cable to get the relay to click off because if i dont it will drain my battery. Tried different relays but still sticks on. I still dont know what it is. I hate it...

[s13drob]

my right sidemarker turns on when the ignition is on. its not a big deal but its wierd

[DRFT180]

EGI relay sticks on when i turn my car on. So i have to disconnect the negative cable to get the relay to click off because if i dont it will drain my battery. Tried different relays but still sticks on. I still dont know what it is. I hate it...


Same here, but now my car won't start.

During and event I came back and parked the car. It would not start again and the EGI relay was buzzing.

If I pulled the Alternator fuse (75amp) I was able to start the car but the cluster, radio, etc. wouldn't work. Then I was able to put the fuse back in and drive fine.

Now it will not start at all.

List of problems:

With EGI relay and ALT fuse in the cluster lights up without keys in the ignition.

If I press and hold the Cruise Control OFF button, lights go off and everything looks normal. Relay stops buzzing, but car will still not start.

I'm not getting voltage to the starter signal wire when the key is turned.


It's driving me crazy, any suggestions?

[punxva]

whenever i flip my efan switch it damn near stalls the car out, or sometimes it raises the idle.

[dRift_g0ddess]

So on my 96 s14 ka-t when on full boost, when lights are on the dash cluster flickers.. (also flickers while turning sometimes)
one day out of no where my airbag light started flashing.. im sure its probably just a sensor.
i replaced my dome light with a multi led dome light and it flickers when the passenger door opens.. but works perfectly fine when driver door opens :squint:

[thestreetzking]

I think this happened after I put my electic fan to a fuse

If I turn the key on (without starting the car) and then off, the brake and door light (in cluster) stay on, and it will drain the battery. I have to literally start the car and shut it off for everything to be off.

[Dignity]

On hot days or when I use my 240 a lot that day, when I either signal left/right or throw up the hazards, the lights will stay frozen "on". It even shows up on the dash as "on". Not blinking or anything. They'll stay until i flick the hazards off and on repeatedly until they start working again, and even after that, they'll still freeze up.

[Dignity]

When I lock the semi power door locks, the passenger side cocks 3 or 4 times like a machine gun before it locks :confused:
I have the same crap. Also, when I lock the driver side door, the passenger side doesn't lock occasionally; I usually have to fiddle with my side before it locks the other side.

[sterlinge]

not to many problems, but my 240 with a new battery will drain within a month, and my backlite on my clock flashes crazy anytime i have my key in.

[TravisSW]

None of my lights work. In or out.

This just happened out of the blue. At least my HIDs/high beams work. Didn't find any bad fuses so I don't have much of a clue.

95 S14 Zenki.

[pacotaco345]

When I flash my hi beams during the day with my pop ups down they come up, then both headlights come on, then the left side goes off and the right side stays on... Then they don't go down till I turn the lights on and off...

[Bullet01]

Frayed through the wire harness under the driverside fender and caused my wipers to short out. Re-soldered them back together, replaced the fuse and now my intermittent wiper setting doesnt work properly and I have to time the wipers to shut off to get them down. High and low settings work fine. Changed out the green wiper box and TCU, but it still does the same thing. So annoying when it drizzles! lol

[GldnBbyNuts]

where to start lol

91 s13...
hit the brake, radio flickers on and off
sometimes i turn the ignition off and the e-brake light stays on
had to remove door jam because if i rolled the driver side window all the way up
reverse lights used to stay on anytime the car was on but now dont work at all
....thats all i can think of lol

[Ithical]

my gas gauge moves up and down depending on my left and right turns.Already changed the sender and that helped a bit but meh, Pretty annoying.

[frifox]

one day lights under gas gauge stopped working, next day the clock stopped working, another day the light on button for switching between outside and inside air stopped working. few days later air blower stopped spinning but the light on inside/outside air switch started working again.

i think my s14 has achieved self awareness and is trying to communicate something

[BOROSUN]

my house heater hvac ( not water heater ) was flashing red again. it's suppose to flash green so, i turned it off.

this happened previously before...

what the hell makes it flash red? does poweroutage or gas temp shutoff usually resets and kills the ignition?

[unreal-]

Nothing crazy:

- Driver side window switch sometimes gets stuff in the down position, which causes my idle to fluctuate

- Pass side turn signal sometimes stops working for a few weeks/months, then without reason blinks happily like nothing happened.

- When parking my car, while i have the brake held, clutch in (about to release it so that i can park in gear) and i let it all go, my dome light gives the faintest flash of light.

- Every time i take a turn too hard, accel too hard, brake too hard,etc. my gas gauge dips down to a low point, then comes back up. Even if im going straight at a constant speed it sometimes does this.

[s14fbs]

whats up with the threads from 06 that keep coming up this week

for no reason

[usdm180sx]

My radio randomly shuts off

[stephens14sr]

my windshield wipers dont stay on i have to flick the switch up and down.....so annoying.

[s13 loverr]

my low beams work when they want to

[zo0d]

Whenever I push on the throttle my seatbelt off indicator pops up on my dash. lol

[nyka435]

My headlights turn on, but don't pop up until I switch the high beams on real quick.

[Highway Riding]

First windshield wiper setting doesn't work after SR swap... Not a big deal at all! Just annoying

[92s13Widebody]

My head lights worked then only one worked now both dont work but they still go up and down I wish they worked and didnt go up and down

[ghoti]

My headlights turn on, but don't pop up until I switch the high beams on real quick.

Pull headlight switch out. I bet the brown wire is cut

[comablack783]

my wipers wont return to stop position, and I can not control the speed settings, first intermittent setting does nothing...

http://home.comcast.net/~meccathor/wiperamp3.jpg
im 99.999991% sure its this green box that im missing tho, rubbed out the sub harness when I first dropped the car and never bothered to wire it up...

[240sxdriftin]

My headlights turn on, but don't pop up until I switch the high beams on real quick.

mine do that same thing. also if my key is out and i turn my lights on all my accessories turn on like my key is set to the on position.... haha

[Kenzo]

Hazards and Horn don't work, sometimes my nifty little ashtray light won't work... not sure why I need that one though...