Q: Battery light and break light on at the same time???

asked by on February 01, 2017

Yesterday, I turned my car on and as I was driving both the break and battery light came on. Throughout my drive these lights would blink occasionally, turn off, but then proceed to come back on whenever I touched the break. After work I had turned my car on and started to drive home, and as I was driving the radio turned off, my heat turned off, my headlights started to dim, and my speedometer stopped showing me how fast I was going. When I got home I shut my car off and tried to restart it but the battery had died. I jumped the car and the lights were still on. This morning I went to start the car and it had died again.. The battery won't hold charge.

My car has 160000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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