Hi group,
A friend of mine at work is experiencing some strange behavior from the headlights on her 2001 Escape, and I was wondering if anybody here may have seen this issue before.
This problem first surfaced a couple of weeks ago while driving in daylight, when a pedestrian on the street asked if she was aware that her headlights were flashing on and off. Since that time, she has noticed the headlights flashing on several occasions when pulling into parking spaces in front of plate glass windows, where she can see the relection of the front of her truck as she drives in. I'm aware that the headlights are normally turned on when the ignition switch is turned on, it's the intermittent flashing on and off bit that I'd like to get figured out.
She says that the headlights are flashing on and off roughly once per second, and this problem seems to occur only during the daylight hours when the headlight switch is in the "off" position. The headlights function normally after dark when turned on with the dashboard switch.
One more clue appeared yesterday when she was parking in a spot up against a concrete wall. She noticed that the headlights immediately stopped flashing when she applied the parking brake, suggesting that the parking brake switch is somehow involved in the guilty circuit path that is causing this behavior.
Any opinions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Ken