shaunington
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Hey all,
Had a game of golf with the old man today, was a nice sunny day when we left so I thought I'd take the VL out for a run.
Anywho, second corner on our voyage there I noticed something odd about the indicators, the arrow on the dash cluster was just on solid instead of blinking as normal. I thought ahh it's just a flasher relay. Must be old, bugger.
2 trips and one close call/angry person complaining about my obvious lack of flashing indicators later (the globes were just staying solidly lit on the outside of the car), I got stuck into the dash as the hazard and flasher relays are under the dash.
I pulled the indicator relay out and it appeared to be the original Hella/GMH one so I thought it must be bung. Pulled it out, had a look at it and it seemed okay, cleaned the contacts on the plug and put it back in to be sure, flicked the indicator and it went on solid, this time the relay making a very loud buzzing noise that has since not gone away.
I'm going to try and source a replacement (seen a Siemens one on ebay to suit ANY commodore for $40 odd, seems a bit rich) but in the mean time is there anything else that's not relay related that could be causing this? General electronics knowledge is telling me to check the quality of my grounds, but it does seem weird that it would just pop up like that if it was a ground related problem, considering I've installed/changed nothing on the car electronics wise in months. I DID install a Calais front on the car and have to disconnect and recoonect the headlight loom plug, but I dont see that being related as the indicators have worked perfectly since until today.
There isn't any other fuse that would effect this? Will head out tomorrow and have a play, but any help is appreciated.
Cheers
Had a game of golf with the old man today, was a nice sunny day when we left so I thought I'd take the VL out for a run.
Anywho, second corner on our voyage there I noticed something odd about the indicators, the arrow on the dash cluster was just on solid instead of blinking as normal. I thought ahh it's just a flasher relay. Must be old, bugger.
2 trips and one close call/angry person complaining about my obvious lack of flashing indicators later (the globes were just staying solidly lit on the outside of the car), I got stuck into the dash as the hazard and flasher relays are under the dash.
I pulled the indicator relay out and it appeared to be the original Hella/GMH one so I thought it must be bung. Pulled it out, had a look at it and it seemed okay, cleaned the contacts on the plug and put it back in to be sure, flicked the indicator and it went on solid, this time the relay making a very loud buzzing noise that has since not gone away.
I'm going to try and source a replacement (seen a Siemens one on ebay to suit ANY commodore for $40 odd, seems a bit rich) but in the mean time is there anything else that's not relay related that could be causing this? General electronics knowledge is telling me to check the quality of my grounds, but it does seem weird that it would just pop up like that if it was a ground related problem, considering I've installed/changed nothing on the car electronics wise in months. I DID install a Calais front on the car and have to disconnect and recoonect the headlight loom plug, but I dont see that being related as the indicators have worked perfectly since until today.
There isn't any other fuse that would effect this? Will head out tomorrow and have a play, but any help is appreciated.
Cheers