Well I drove home tonight, lights and flashers working fine. Before going inside I thought I might check if the rear lights were functioning properly.
Everything was working properly, but I noticed on the far left that a portion of my "plasma" LED tail light globe was a little flaky.
So I ran inside, grabbed another plasma globe. I still had the lights on and the left flasher working when I swapped out the globe, which was clearly a mistake. Because when I inserted the globe I put it in backwards first up, and while it did briefly light up, it was clear I had inserted it backwards as the globe wouldn't spin into position because of the staggered pins being in the wrong orientation.
So I spun it around and inserted it correctly, all good, the taillight lit up and the rear flasher functioned normally.
However, when I disengaged the flasher lever, the rear flasher stopped but the front flasher was running all by itself. Also the headlights were out.
I traced the headlight problem to a severely burnt out inline fuse. When I had put the rear globe in backwards I surmise it shorted out somehow....
But that front left indicator still now blinks all by itself when the ignition is turned on and the flasher lever is in the off position. Moving the flasher lever to the left gets the rear light flashing normally in unison with the front. Moving the lever to the right gets the right flasher working properly, but the front left keeps blinking at the same time. Turning on the hazard flashers works correctly, and the hazard flasher unit correctly overides the turn flasher unit above the glovebox, so I don't think this problem has anything to do with the hazard circuit.
So in summary, is there any electrical guru's out there that would know why a front flasher light would operate by itself with the indicator lever in the off position??
Everything was working properly, but I noticed on the far left that a portion of my "plasma" LED tail light globe was a little flaky.
So I ran inside, grabbed another plasma globe. I still had the lights on and the left flasher working when I swapped out the globe, which was clearly a mistake. Because when I inserted the globe I put it in backwards first up, and while it did briefly light up, it was clear I had inserted it backwards as the globe wouldn't spin into position because of the staggered pins being in the wrong orientation.
So I spun it around and inserted it correctly, all good, the taillight lit up and the rear flasher functioned normally.
However, when I disengaged the flasher lever, the rear flasher stopped but the front flasher was running all by itself. Also the headlights were out.
I traced the headlight problem to a severely burnt out inline fuse. When I had put the rear globe in backwards I surmise it shorted out somehow....
But that front left indicator still now blinks all by itself when the ignition is turned on and the flasher lever is in the off position. Moving the flasher lever to the left gets the rear light flashing normally in unison with the front. Moving the lever to the right gets the right flasher working properly, but the front left keeps blinking at the same time. Turning on the hazard flashers works correctly, and the hazard flasher unit correctly overides the turn flasher unit above the glovebox, so I don't think this problem has anything to do with the hazard circuit.
So in summary, is there any electrical guru's out there that would know why a front flasher light would operate by itself with the indicator lever in the off position??
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