Dash board light flicker, gauges start bouncing sometimes engine quits

Tiny
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  • 2005 DODGE CARAVAN
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Dashboard light flicker, gauges start bouncing sometimes engine quits. Then everything goes back to normal
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 AT 3:18 AM

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Tiny
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This sounds like a possible battery or low voltage issue. So that means we need to start with checking the voltage of the battery and make sure it is able to handle the required load by load testing it.

Here is a guide that will help with this:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/car-battery-load-test

No matter if the battery passes or fails, we need to test the alternator as well.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-check-a-car-alternator

Lastly the negative battery cable needs to be checked to find out if it good ground and both battery terminals are clean and tight.

Please run through this info and let us know what you find with this, and we can go from there.

Thanks
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