light thingy

[griffink1 at nku.edu (Kathryn Griffin)]

my shift key-thingy blinks on pretty much anytime i have my foot on the gas. my biggest prob is sometimes i think my oil light is flickering, and freak out and have to stop and check (i drove a saturn completly dry once. bad scene.) ive mentioned that my dashboard goes dark when i turn my lights on- is the shifty thing another relay gone bad? 
 
-P.S. anyone heard of a heater core recall for pretty much any scirocco?
 
-katy
('84 silver wolfsburg)