On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:39:42 -0800, richardpars wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2:33 pm, Joe LaVigne <jlavi...@hits-buffalo.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:51:51 -0800, richardpars wrote:
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > This morning for the first time the turn signals did not work until 10
>> > min. into my drive and then they randomly started working again.
>> > Earlier problems that still are persisting and that tell me it is
>> > definately electrical were when I use the break either hours into a
>> > trip or sometimes minutes, the radio goes out and the speedometer goes
>> > out for a few seconds and the dash lights flicker.
>>
>> > I have read through some posts and what I have found is that some say
>> > it is the alternator. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated
>> > b/c as anyone knows who have had this problem it is very annoying and
>> > dangerous to drive like this.
>>
>> My initial suspect would be a ground somewhere. Can cause some pretty
>> flaky results.
>>
>> The Alternator can, too, but it sounds more like a ground to me.
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> Well that is interesting I can't say that this didn't happen before I
> got my radio installed by Best buy but it did and I installed my last
> radio and it didn't nearly happen as frequently, I would say once in a
> blue moon. Now it is like every other day and I feel like it may be
> linked to the new radio install but wouldn't that be closer to
> touching the ignition wire than alternator. Maybe it is time for a
> new alternator, any tricks to troubleshooting to see what the culprit
> is?

A radio install did not hurt your alternator. Worse case scenario would
be blowing out the radio from cross-polarity.

I would still be looking for grounding problems. Check the ground strap.