indicators

[catwill74]

thanks to the earlier answers. it turned out to be a copper bar in the indicator stalk had dislocated and fused......didn't have a spanner big enough to get the wheel off so passed a new indictor stalk to a garage. However......

they fitted the indicator and they found the flasher unit had gone as well and replaced that, but the light on the end of the new indicator stalk does not flash.(its not the bulb). £80 later and the garage washed their hands.....'with a circuit diagram mate it'll cost hundreds to sort out'.....was the direct quote!!!!!

Also the indicators flash alot quicker than before...and the fuel gauge which worked fine now seems to have 'shrunk' and a full tank reads as just under half and drops slower to empty when the tank gets near empty.


any ideas?

one thing its done..is that its prompted me to buy a workshop manual and invest in proper tools.....and start to learn rather than pay a garage.......

[Dean]

I'm sure there are some good old fashioned mechanics still around, but most these days plug a meter in the black box for that to tell them whats wrong!

I'm sure someone on here will help you out.

[bmcecosse]

£80 to the garage ! Get your money back. They haven't wired it up properly if the little light doesn't work ! The light is simply connected across both sets of flashers - when one side flashes the lamp earths out through the other. I doubt the flasher unit had failed - did you get the old one back from them ? They may have fitted the wrong flasher - or perhaps your flash rate was too slow before ? Should be between 60 and 120 per minute. they may have rewired the gauge directly to the full system 14 volts - it should be through the little voltage regulator which gives ~ 10 volts to keep the reading steady.
Ohh - and find another garage - don't go back there !!