Welcome Visitor! Please take a few seconds and I have a 2004 B2300 2-wheel drive with 4 cylinder and 5 speed transmission. I recently installed LED headlights and turn signal and brake lights with LED. I added a clip-on resistor to the headlight wires (recommended) and put in a LED flasher designed for LED lights. Recently The alternator light would flash on. If I turned on the A/C and blower fan it would go off. Intermittently it would flash back on, but if I repeated the above process, it would go off. I took it to the mechanic shop and after much troubleshooting they replace the alternator and the battery. That fixed it for a while.
Now the ABS and Parking Brake light will flash on. Most times they stay on. When I set the cruise, they turn off. Sometimes I can turn on A/C full blast and fan blower on full blast and all the dash lights shut off. Recently the 4-way flasher makes the clicking noise as if they are turned on, BUT the 4-ways are off. I also noticed that the windshield wipers do not turn on either. If I turn on the headlights, A/C full blast, blower fan full blast, radio on, cruise on, the windshield wipers will work, but only intermittently. This has been going on for a few months. The battery stays charged so I "think" I've eliminated the alternator or battery from the equation. I do not know what is causing this issue. I'm thinking maybe the Instrument cluster.... Any ideas? About a month ago I installed one of the modules in the OBDII port that is "supposed" to increase gas mileage. I did NOT see any improvement or difference in this issue, BUT I did remove it this morning and did NOT see any change. I'm thinking about getting a replacement Instrument cluster off eBay or local salvage yard to see if that fixes it.
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Now the ABS and Parking Brake light will flash on. Most times they stay on. When I set the cruise, they turn off. Sometimes I can turn on A/C full blast and fan blower on full blast and all the dash lights shut off. Recently the 4-way flasher makes the clicking noise as if they are turned on, BUT the 4-ways are off. I also noticed that the windshield wipers do not turn on either. If I turn on the headlights, A/C full blast, blower fan full blast, radio on, cruise on, the windshield wipers will work, but only intermittently. This has been going on for a few months. The battery stays charged so I "think" I've eliminated the alternator or battery from the equation. I do not know what is causing this issue. I'm thinking maybe the Instrument cluster.... Any ideas? About a month ago I installed one of the modules in the OBDII port that is "supposed" to increase gas mileage. I did NOT see any improvement or difference in this issue, BUT I did remove it this morning and did NOT see any change. I'm thinking about getting a replacement Instrument cluster off eBay or local salvage yard to see if that fixes it.
What say You?
