clipto
10+ Year Contributor
- 2,317
- 5
- Oct 8, 2011
-
Portland,
Oregon
My friends 1g has an issue when he drives at night and the headlights are on when he goes to apply the brakes the car wants to die. But only when the headlights are on. Any ideas I tried reading some threads but nothing was really a understandable answer for this. Any idea or points to where and what might causing this? Tested the battery and it came back strong. Should still check the alternator? Or if anything I read is a bad ground but I am no electrician as I have no idea anything about the wiring for this car or any car beyond basic install of a stereo . I do see on the log that the battery volt does drop when applying the brakes down to 12v when fully braking to a stop from a steady 14v at cruising/idle. Or maybe its the dinky small ground wire that goes from the negative on the battery to the back firewall.