The ground will spark a little when you connect it to the battery, that's normal.

Alternator ground wire is the primary engine bonding jumper from the right side of the timing chain cover to the chassis below the coolant reservoir.

Was it raining recently or did you go through a car wash shortly before these problems happened? Might have gotten water in the IPDM fuse box.

 

No car wash or heavy rain, just snowing. I did have a previous problem with my IPDM getting wet from a car wash. Had it soaked in rice and regained the headlight controls but maybe due its back to haunt me again. Could the IPDM cause the brake and battery light to intermediately go on and off?

 

Possibly if you're getting BOTH those lights on at the same time. However I would definitely start with a DMM to see if the alternator is working as well as checking the big fuse in the fusible link for the alternator circuit.

 

It’s sometimes both at the same time, sometimes one after the other. It’s very random. Voltages are correct for both battery and alternator. Can I just remove the high beam fuse for a temporary fix as I don’t want to keep flashing people at night?

 

If these issues started after you replaced your cluster, chances are there is either something connected wrong or perhaps your solder ran into an adjacent line on the circuit board causing a drain. You may want to double check the cluster.

 

The lights appeared before I swapped my cluster. I had issues with my light previously when my IPDM got wet. But that never affected my high beams until now. I’ll look into checking my fuses again.

 

Update, it wasn’t the high beams but my HID flickering. I removed my high beam fuse so they can’t turn on anymore but I still notice flickering from my headlights. Could it be a dying HID bulb?

 

It could be a bad bulb or a bad ballast.

 

I would start by cleaning up the headlight ground wires, in the engine bay, at the front of the two wheel wells is a single wire landed on a bolt, literally on the wheel well itself.

Unbolt, wire brush the lug, the bolt threads, apply a little electrical anti-oxidation grease to all mating surfaces, bolt it back together.

Ballasts can get super finicky if they're getting a voltage drop due to bad connections. They're just a fancy transformer that takes your 12v dc and turns it into like 5,000 v dc then ramps voltage down to like 500v or so. Even a LITTLE resistance makes a massive difference in it's output voltage which is very noticeable in the lamp.

It's also possible it's re-striking due to a failing ballast. When the ballast initially turns on it's strike circuit blasts the 5k volts through the gas in the lamp which causes it so basically explode (ionize) and you see a visible flicker in the light output. Once it's ionized the voltage drops rapidly because the gas is basically already on fire and it takes less power to keep it running. If the ballast is restriking intermittently it will create a flicker that you will see.

Cleaning the ground wire is free, if it's still doing it then stand in front of your car and see if BOTH headlights are flickering or if it's just one, if it's just one you can swap components from one side to the other to try to get the problem to follow to the other side. That way you can narrow down to EXACTLY what the failing component is rather than throwing money into parts you might not need to replace.

And don't touch the lamps glass with your skin, the oil from your skin makes hot spots, use a clean paper towel or hold it by the socket. If you do accidentally touch them you can always clean the lamp with isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol).

 

So it’s not a bad bulb because I just swapped both of them since I had them already. Here is a vid of the lights randomly flickering. It kind of seems like my high berms are coming on and off despite the fuses for them have been pulled out. Could it be my IPDM box?

The battery light and brake light seem to have magically disappeared yet I didn’t do anything. It’s been around 4 days since seeing them frequenting appearing.

 

If your IPDM box got wet and all you did was soak it in rice, I'd revisit that with another look. I would take it out of the car and inspect the wiring harness connectors and the pins on the IPDM. Then I would pop out all the fuses and relays and clean everything up with DeOxit D5 cleaner and they also sell small electrical files.