Hi!
Nagging little issue:
Just every now and then, once in 200 miles, my right turn signal will go silent and start flashing rapidly: a safety feature, I'm sure, to let me know that my light isn't working; though I wasn't about to hop out of the car and verify!
Trouble is, it's only occasional. Like, a few seconds at a time --it has never been off for the entirety of even one right turn-- and that one time will be once in a tank of gas. So it won't be easy to pinpoint!
Assuming that it IS an electrical problem, my question would be: did this happen to you, and is there a particular harness or solder point or place where the wire might nick itself on a screw, where I could go in and look?
My other option, is that sometimes, I think maybe more on left turns than on right, my turn signal handle doesn't like to stay in place; at the extreme I might want to hold it down, but it's rarely that bad.
THAT is strictly mechanical, but I'm wondering, if the hold tabs are worn, maybe however that switch that's built in there works, is not contacting adequately.
To test that theory, the next time this happens to me, I'll hold the turn signal lever up with force, and see if the signal immediately responds and starts to work again.
But until then, what are your thoughts, has this happened to your car?
thanks!
-Bernard
Nagging little issue:
Just every now and then, once in 200 miles, my right turn signal will go silent and start flashing rapidly: a safety feature, I'm sure, to let me know that my light isn't working; though I wasn't about to hop out of the car and verify!
Trouble is, it's only occasional. Like, a few seconds at a time --it has never been off for the entirety of even one right turn-- and that one time will be once in a tank of gas. So it won't be easy to pinpoint!
Assuming that it IS an electrical problem, my question would be: did this happen to you, and is there a particular harness or solder point or place where the wire might nick itself on a screw, where I could go in and look?
My other option, is that sometimes, I think maybe more on left turns than on right, my turn signal handle doesn't like to stay in place; at the extreme I might want to hold it down, but it's rarely that bad.
THAT is strictly mechanical, but I'm wondering, if the hold tabs are worn, maybe however that switch that's built in there works, is not contacting adequately.
To test that theory, the next time this happens to me, I'll hold the turn signal lever up with force, and see if the signal immediately responds and starts to work again.
But until then, what are your thoughts, has this happened to your car?
thanks!
-Bernard
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