FLASHER!
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:44 pm
Hi everyone,
I may have a problem with the indicator flasher unit on my S130/5 . It may have been toasted when I mistakenly changed the hazard flasher unit for a high wattage one thinking it controlled both hazard and indicators.
The indicators worked fine with the new unit connected (obviously). Then I tried the hazards and there was a high-pitched buzz from behind the dash so I immediately switched off. I replaced the original (hazard) unit and soon after that the indicators (offside) stopped flashing and now just stay on and the nearside ones are slower. The hazards work fine on their old unit. The diagram shows the indicator circuit passing through the hazard switch and when the hazard flasher was disconected the indicators wouldn't work. Surely the higher wattage from the hazard relay, for the brief moment it was on, couldn't have cooked the indicator flasher?
Any suggestions - other than 'look at the wiring diagram in future you idiot' - will be gratefully received as I'd like to take the car to Stoneleigh.
I've resigned myself to the probability of the indicator flasher relay being attached to the back of the dash near the hazard switch. Can someone please tell me where it is?
Thanking you in anticipation of any help,
Si
Ps the green indicator light can now be seen to glow slightly under braking
at night!
I may have a problem with the indicator flasher unit on my S130/5 . It may have been toasted when I mistakenly changed the hazard flasher unit for a high wattage one thinking it controlled both hazard and indicators.
The indicators worked fine with the new unit connected (obviously). Then I tried the hazards and there was a high-pitched buzz from behind the dash so I immediately switched off. I replaced the original (hazard) unit and soon after that the indicators (offside) stopped flashing and now just stay on and the nearside ones are slower. The hazards work fine on their old unit. The diagram shows the indicator circuit passing through the hazard switch and when the hazard flasher was disconected the indicators wouldn't work. Surely the higher wattage from the hazard relay, for the brief moment it was on, couldn't have cooked the indicator flasher?
Any suggestions - other than 'look at the wiring diagram in future you idiot' - will be gratefully received as I'd like to take the car to Stoneleigh.
I've resigned myself to the probability of the indicator flasher relay being attached to the back of the dash near the hazard switch. Can someone please tell me where it is?
Thanking you in anticipation of any help,
Si
Ps the green indicator light can now be seen to glow slightly under braking
at night!