Q: My dash lights don't come on in the morning until I'm just about to my jobsite at around 6:45 or so.
My dash lights don't come on until about quarter to 7 before I'm pulling into work every morning and you know and also my blinkers sometimes will stop working and I can get them going by turning my fan motor to my heater I can switch back and forth and then they'll start working again
My car has 184000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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