Q: I have a 1998 grand marquis as I was driving to night my head lights dash board lights and tail lights started flicking as I was

asked by on March 02, 2018

I have a grad marquis as I was driving tonight all my lights on the car starts to flicking what do that mean
My car has a manual transmission.

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