turn signals stopped working
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 7:23 pm
I've got a hunch some other glitches in the car have been leading up to this so I'll start from the beginning:
A couple months ago the hazard lights came on and wouldn't go off. The hazard button was on and wouldn't stay pushed in to turn them off. Weird thing(to me) was that when we took the fuse for the hazards out the turn signals wouldn't work even though they seem to be controlled by a different fuse. Anyway, my dad happened to have another switch, we put that in, and problem solved.
Then a couple days ago I drove home and the hazards were on again. Same thing, hazard switch wouldn't stay in. I thought it was weird they both would die in such short time but figured they were just old parts.
I took the second switch apart and in doing so broke the tiny metal arm that holds the button in against the spring. So I took the spring out so the button would stay down and off. Seemed to be ok until the blinkers stopped working the next day....
From what the fuse box says the hazards and the wipers are the same fuse and the wipers work and then stop when I take that fuse out so I'm pretty sure that it's not the fuse.
I also noticed that there are some 25's in my fuse box in place of 16's(the blinker fuse is a 16 though) so that's something I want to fix.
Any ideas? I'm starting to suspect there is an electrical gremlin unless there is something I'm overlooking...
Thanks in advance.
A couple months ago the hazard lights came on and wouldn't go off. The hazard button was on and wouldn't stay pushed in to turn them off. Weird thing(to me) was that when we took the fuse for the hazards out the turn signals wouldn't work even though they seem to be controlled by a different fuse. Anyway, my dad happened to have another switch, we put that in, and problem solved.
Then a couple days ago I drove home and the hazards were on again. Same thing, hazard switch wouldn't stay in. I thought it was weird they both would die in such short time but figured they were just old parts.
I took the second switch apart and in doing so broke the tiny metal arm that holds the button in against the spring. So I took the spring out so the button would stay down and off. Seemed to be ok until the blinkers stopped working the next day....
From what the fuse box says the hazards and the wipers are the same fuse and the wipers work and then stop when I take that fuse out so I'm pretty sure that it's not the fuse.
I also noticed that there are some 25's in my fuse box in place of 16's(the blinker fuse is a 16 though) so that's something I want to fix.
Any ideas? I'm starting to suspect there is an electrical gremlin unless there is something I'm overlooking...
Thanks in advance.