A bad ground sometimes cause electric feedback issues and can provide many different, weird, acting light problems. Remember you are working on an isolated electrical system with rubber tires acting as the insulator. For all of the lights to operate as they should, 12 volt power has to get to each light element and 12 volt power must return to the source through the ground. I have seen blinkers reverse, etc, all because of a poor ground. Just saying that a poor ground can cause weird problems that do not always make sense.