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Intermittent Turn Signal Indicator Fail

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by maximike, Jan 24, 2013.

  1. maximike

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    I had a noisy speedo(again) and a burned out neutral light, and a sketchy right side signal indicator that was only flashing once then going out, so I took off the Atari Fish Finder (tm) to see what was up.

    Got all that taken care of, pretty much, except I still have a weird turn signal thing. Just to be clear, talking about the signal indicator on the instrument panel, the actual signals work fine. What happens is, I turn on the right blinkers, I get about one blink, and then the signals keep working but the light on the dash isn't coming on. Sometimes it does, sometimes no, so it's not the bulb(I pulled it out and checked, it's fine, and used electronics cleaner on the socket and all connectors in the headlight bucket, again)

    I know it's probably a connector or wire somewhere, has anybody had this exact issue? Just to save some time on the diagnosis, otherwise I'll have to basically re-wire that silly light, I think. Old wiring, sheesh. I also have a horn issue going on, but that's another story...
     
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    i had both indicator idiot lights coming on with the headlight, then the relevant light flashing with the indicator. I found that i had pinched about four of the black wires when reassembling the console. I ended up replacing that section of the wiring harness to sort the problem.
     
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    Yeah, now I've lost the left one, either bad bulb or bad connection. Just realized one of my taillight bulbs is out (turns out there's two bulbs in there, who knew?) Anyway, might be time for LEDs all around.
     

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