indicator stalk 93 200tdi

[old joe]

ok guys

i must be on the 3rd indicator stalk on joe, started playing this time the other night i flashed the full beam and it stayed on?

i mentioned to it my garage and they will have another look on Wednesday just starting to get rather annoying.

Dazza

[petergalileo]

May be buy a brand new one and keep the receipt ??

These do have a tendancy to give problems, I have seen ones that have melted plugs.  Might be worth testing your alternator output just in case but I cant see that that would cause just the problem with the indicator stalk, if the alternator output was too high you would be blowing bulbs faster too.

[dazzawhipple]

Dazza

The stalks fail due to the all the power going through the stalk there is a mod that can be done to try and slove this problem

Basicually you wire the stalk to switch a relay and feed the relay directly (through a fuse ) from the battery, aparently this will make your lights brighter as well

Darren

[old joe]

seemed to have cured it it was the cowling around the stalk.

all seems good so far mechanic fixed iot with a an old piece of plastic?

dazza

[Disco Inferno]

i suffered this problem 5 or 6 times until i realised what was going on

It was a crap connection on the multi plug on the back of the stalk

crap connection = high resistance = heat etc etc

my anser to the problem was to go to the scrappy and carve up some old metros for the stalks and loom ends

i then replaced the multiplug ont he end of the loom with a decent 2nd hand one and attached the new stalks, for the 18 months i had the car for after that i never had a problem

[Bush Tucker Man]

For future referance.

Aren't they the same as  (mid-life) Metros, Maestros & Montegos

Might be worthwhile trawling round the local scrappers???

[Matt_H]

relays will only really improve the brightness if there is a problem with the original wiring, like said before high resistance connections are a prime area.  A bit of WD40 can help to clean them up if needed.  switch cleaner is better but wd will do.

You've found your problem but sticky relays are not unheard of.

I relayed my lights, dim dip will cause problems if fitted so you have to be careful.  I also took the opportunity to use 80/100 (off road) as I used cable specked to be fine with that kind of load (potentially 180 watt on each bulb if you flash your lights with dipped already on, so if you earth through one wire it needs to be able to handle 15 amps.

Matthew