Recently my E30's headlights have begun to turn themselves on from time to time. It seems to happen completely randomly, and when it does the "rear light" and "license plate light" lights illuminate on my check panel. When they're on randomly, the headlights, parking lights, sidemarkers, and passenger tail light come on. When I pull the headlight switch out once there's no change, and when I pull it out all the way the headlights get a little brighter, my fogs come on, and the driver's tail comes on. I also recently left my lights on, and when I came out the radio was still on as well. When I switched off the lights, the radio turned off. Not sure if that's related.
The only thing I've done to this car electrically was to dig out the stock foglight wiring and wire in my ghetto Wal-Mart fogs. However, I didn't have this problem when I first wired them up, so I doubt that's the issue. I also removed this random wire that was connected to an OEM plug and ended with bare, live wires. I have a pic of this piece if necessary, but I can't imagine how removing that would cause an issue because it wasn't plugged in to anything before. Another thing to note is that my alternator is rigged in a pretty ghetto-tastic way: the bold / stud / whatever that held the alternator bracket to the front of the engine got torn off somehow. I've got a wooden wedge between the engine and the alternator to keep the belt tight, and I hammer in the wedge every time I go to start the car. My battery still occasionally drains however, so I've had to jump start the car many times. I usually jump directly to the battery in the trunk, and I occasionally have to connect a battery charger to help keep the charge up.
Any ideas? I know I saw a similar thread recently, but I don't think a solution was found and I can't seem to find it now.
The only thing I've done to this car electrically was to dig out the stock foglight wiring and wire in my ghetto Wal-Mart fogs. However, I didn't have this problem when I first wired them up, so I doubt that's the issue. I also removed this random wire that was connected to an OEM plug and ended with bare, live wires. I have a pic of this piece if necessary, but I can't imagine how removing that would cause an issue because it wasn't plugged in to anything before. Another thing to note is that my alternator is rigged in a pretty ghetto-tastic way: the bold / stud / whatever that held the alternator bracket to the front of the engine got torn off somehow. I've got a wooden wedge between the engine and the alternator to keep the belt tight, and I hammer in the wedge every time I go to start the car. My battery still occasionally drains however, so I've had to jump start the car many times. I usually jump directly to the battery in the trunk, and I occasionally have to connect a battery charger to help keep the charge up.
Any ideas? I know I saw a similar thread recently, but I don't think a solution was found and I can't seem to find it now.
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