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hey just got the car and its already showing all the common symptons skylines have

1. driving for a while and when going at low speed the whole engine just cuts off and hicas lights turn on aswell as the other red lights. steering wheel loses power steering. have to stop and start engine again to make it go away. ive read threads of same problem but can't find a general solution?

2. Left light doesn't turn on till i accelerate sometimes

3. cabin light flickers like a strobe light when i open car door sometimes.

4. one of the red lights in the dash flicker on for a micro sec when i'm turning. dunno which one but ill find out tomolo.

and i got some general questions.

the oil pressue guage i assume (the one on the lower right of the dash), what is the normal value it should be at? and what does oil pressure mean? what happens if it is low or high?

i opened up the boot to look for hicas and i find the battery and some kinda white translucent plastic box with all these wires coming out of it and next to that stuck on the parcel shelf is a metal box. is that the hicas? and is there sposed to be jus one metal box?

where can i find the ecu? i read you can pull it out and it shows a lil led display which you can set certain values?

and how long does it take to reset ecu? unclip the battery at the back right? and then press on the brake lights till it diminishes? and then connect it all back up and start her up and give her a good run?

sorry about all the questions guys. i'm jus curious after reading this forum for so long and just want to get full use of my beloved skyline.

hehe thanks

:burnout:

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yes i do have a blow off valve

all fluids are full up since its been serviced twice

im not sure how to get into the headlights, im not very technical, i dunno mess it up, but my importer did change the right globe back to stock yellow today cos it was blue lol.

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NOOOOOO!

Just stopping you from ripping anything out.

The kick panel is the plastic cover on the left hand side wall where your (passenger's) feet stay, just below the glove box. Remove the nut on the far wall and unclip the front of the panel.

I heard this happen in another car (not skyline). Look at your lights (front and back), can you see water trapped inside? This other car had water trapped inside the light and some times when he turned a corner or took off hard the car would stall (steering stiffens, light on dash light up, etc). He would then restart the car and kept on driving. After taking the car to a few mechanics and changing the ecu (for another new facory item) the poblem still occured. Eventually the problem was solved. They found that water was trapped in the tail light cluster, and that when the car turned, the water would rush to one side and shorten the wiring, that caused a spike and shut down the ecu. This may nto be your problem but is worth a mention, i think.

It may also be you idle controll.

The flickering light sounds like the switch is durty and need to be disassembled and cleaned, or replaced. As the contacts inside the switch are not conducting the electricity properly (sorry if that sounded like a physics lecture :P).

Take a GOOD look for water in all your lights. Re-reading your post and the syptoms can definately be caused by a short due to water!! :uh-huh: :uh-huh: :uh-huh:

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