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    Lights flicker and electrical system resets randomly

    Found time today to clean all connections (both positive and negative) from the battery. Neg to the bottom of the battery tray, and also connected across to the block. Pos on both cables as well. Also remove and cleaned all the positive cables in the positive cable tray terminal block. Used...
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    Lights flicker and electrical system resets randomly

    One more thing I will clarify, While the car is running and if the dash lights and headlights appear to be flickering, when I turn off the car the radio, clock and trip meter reset will always reset. (and sometimes the horm will sound) While the car is running and the lights appear normal...
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    Lights flicker and electrical system resets randomly

    Bkcorso: That's correct. When the lights are flickering (and that's not all the time) the use of anything with heavy load, like two windows at once, causes the car to nearly stall and resets the clock, the radio and the trip distance meter. But if the lights are not flickering (running normal...
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    Lights flicker and electrical system resets randomly

    They replaced the battery last visit, along with new gen. Could the bat be bad again?
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    Lights flicker and electrical system resets randomly

    Hello all. This is my first post! I have a 2004 Jetta TDI. 8 months ago it started showing signs of electrical problems, but not consistently. The dash lights and head lights will flicker while the car was at low RPM's. If I used the power windows during this condition, often the car would...
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