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Headlights and wipers randomly go out
Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:12 PM
My sister's 02 cavalier is having a weird electrical issue. Her headlights will randomly go out when her wipers are on. The wipers will stop in the middle of the windshield, and I can hear a faint buzzing sound in the middle of the dash.

There's no rhyme or reason for it going out or coming back on. I thought it could be whenever you hit a bump but I don't think that causes it.

Any ideas?? I havent gotten the time to take off the top of the dash to see what exactly is buzzing. It seems to be close to the center windshield vent.




Re: Headlights and wipers randomly go out
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:54 AM
Dunno why I bother asking anymore.

For people who have this similar problem, we found that the wiper motor had a bad ground wire. Still no idea how that would have caused the headlights to go out too, but whatever. It works.



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