A similar "powder blue" model.
Most recently, it has started to simultaneously flash a battery light, skid warning light, electronic brake light, spin the speedometer needle back to zero, and flicker the headlights.
Some of the lights that will occasionally flash on my dashboard.
Even with my limited knowledge of cars, I made the assumption that there was an issue with either the battery or the alternator, both of which I have had issues with in the past. When I took it in to the shop today, though, the mechanics found nothing wrong with either of those and failed to diagnose the problem. After some investigation online, I came across what could be the issue: rusted or loosened connections between the internal wirings of the car. Because of this disconnect, the car's central processing unit is receiving mixed messages. There is likely an internal voltmeter connected to the battery that reads the level of the battery continuously. With the poor connection, however, this reading is only occasionally being transmitted. Thus, when the connections are jolted loose, by perhaps a hard acceleration or turn, the central processing unit does not receive the input from the voltmeter and reads the voltage of the battery as 0.
There are likely similar signal transmission errors relating to the speedometer (causing it to assume the car is not moving), connection to the electronic break (it may be programmed with a statement such as if the electronic break is not engaged, do not display the light, so no input would turn the light on), and skid sensors, although I am not sure how this lapse in the internal algorithm causes the headlights to flicker. Unfortunately, I do not have even close to the proper understanding of what goes on under the hood of a car to fix these issues, so for now, I will continue to monitor the situation and hope for the best.
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