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Old 05-05-2019, 02:21 PM
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All of a sudden my turn signals and flashers do not work. The fuse is good and the relay clicks, any ideas before I order a new relay?
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Originally Posted by shmelvin
All of a sudden my turn signals and flashers do not work. The fuse is good and the relay clicks, any ideas before I order a new relay?
Always check the obvious... like the bulbs. The green arrows work on the gauge cluster? In my experience, it was usually a simple bulb or contact issue with the wiring harness. I've rarely have had problems with the relays. When they go bad, they usually start to show signs of weird blinking and such.
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The arrows are not working on the cluster, left, right, or hazard?
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I think you are right...replace the relay. It is the common point for all of what is wrong.
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As apparently this is not a common issue, I just wanted to let you know a new flasher totally fixed the problem. I'm wondering as I have LED tail lights if the extra load tends to burn out the flasher? (even though it is LED rated)
I think I will buy a spare just to keep in the glove box. I used to keep 4 or 5 relays for my 928 as they failed constantly.
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Originally Posted by shmelvin
As apparently this is not a common issue, I just wanted to let you know a new flasher totally fixed the problem. I'm wondering as I have LED tail lights if the extra load tends to burn out the flasher? (even though it is LED rated)
I think I will buy a spare just to keep in the glove box. I used to keep 4 or 5 relays for my 928 as they failed constantly.
I just replaced my failed flasher yesterday. FWIW the original flasher was very silent, you could not even hear it when it worked, The FIBI $3 flasher that replaces it is very loud, I guess that could be a good thing as to not forget to cancel the turn signal in the event the auto-cancel didn't do it. So $30 bucks for a quite one or $3 bucks for a loud one.



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