# 2008 Toyota Yaris - Electrical issues

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2008-toyota-yaris-electrical-issues/140721>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** toyota\
**Created:** [May 20, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2008-toyota-yaris-electrical-issues/140721 "2019-05-20T19:03:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![lyngokweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@lyngokweed](https://community.cartalk.com/u/lyngokweed)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2008-toyota-yaris-electrical-issues/140721/1 "2019-05-20T19:03:55Z")

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I’ve had a 2008 yaris almost 4 years I put about 80k miles on it,now has about 145k,a short time after I got it w 55k I noticed the radio would go off if I put hi beams on ,the whole car would shut down sometimes and the power steering wouldn’t work and other similar tricks,not always but you never knew, I took it to the best electric troubleshooter around,(Riley’s),so I had to bring it when it was doing it,he said it was a “positive draw” on system,the car was fixed…for a year, now the fuel gauge goes dim and if I’m driving slow the trans eems to lag behind…not always . is anyone else having this issue and what did you find out or do? thanks