Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: graham2306 on May 20, 2006, 20:49:11
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Went out to the beast this morning and the indicators wouldn't work. I'd been meesing about with the wiring for the brake fluid sensor earlier in the week and decided I must have disturbed something in the loom. Quick investigation showed all the connections to be OK, so hadn't disconnected anything. Tried the hazard lights, they didn't work either.
Set off anyway, using hand signals. Whilst driving I thought, must be the flasher unit, wonder where it is? Managed to find it on the back of fuse panel and got into it fairly quickly. It was soaking wet where water had been getting in while it had been standing in the week. Dried the contacts all off and gave it a good shake, stuck it back together and still nothing. Racked my brains for what else it could be whilst dismantling a Discovery for its 200Tdi engine.
Came out the workshop at 6:00 pm, tried the hazards and they worked! Indicators all still working fine. I hate Land Rovers.
Graham
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Ah the joys of Land Rover ownership.
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that's most likely the hazard switch that was knocked slightly then... When the hazards are on it disconencts the indicator as it were. You can prove it by removing the switch all together.... the indicators will no longer work. The contacts that disconnect the indicators often stay disconnected when you switch off the hazards for some reason.
The hazard switches are a particularly cheap and nasty switch which seems to go on a regular basis.
Matthew
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Thanks Matthew, was going that way having looked at the wiring diagram and replaced the flasher unit.
Graham