Elecktrickery help required on RRC

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Steve Hoppé

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #1

Need some help please guys, indicators have stopped working, hazards still
work, fuses all ok, flasher relay kicks into action, good contacts on the
stalk unit.. I am rapidly running out of idea's. Anyone had the same sort of
fault?

Steve

85 RRC 3.5 V8

 

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Kieran Turner

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #2

"Steve Hoppé" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Need some help please guys, indicators have stopped working, hazards still
> work, fuses all ok, flasher relay kicks into action, good contacts on the
> stalk unit.. I am rapidly running out of idea's. Anyone had the same sort
of
> fault?

If there's a towbar fitted, check there isn't a short in the electrical
connector.

K

 

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Paul - xxx

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #3

Steve Hoppé vaguely muttered something like ...
> Need some help please guys, indicators have stopped working, hazards still
> work, fuses all ok, flasher relay kicks into action, good contacts on the
> stalk unit.. I am rapidly running out of idea's. Anyone had the same sort
> of fault?

Earth fault. On my S3 similar symptoms, corroded earth strap twixt ebgine
and chassis .. new one (two actually, one from chassis to battery, one from
engine to chassis) cured it .. Good. clean, joints are essential.

--
Paul ...

(8(|) ... Homer Rocks

"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

 

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Austin Shackles

Guest

• Aug 13, 2004

• #4

On or around Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:43:10 +0100, "Badger"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>I had the same fault on my 110 some 5 years or so ago, turned out tho be the
>hazard switch which contained a set of changeover contacts to use the
>flasher for all 4 at once instead of the normal side by side operation. When
>you switch hazards on, it disconnects the power feed from the indicator
>switch supply, if hazard switch contact fails then no indicators when
>hazards off.


I've had that one too, cost me a new hazard switch.

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria"
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) from Divina Commedia 'Inferno'

 

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Badger

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #5

"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote
in message news:[email protected]...
>
> But regards the problems my money is on... Earth as suggested or crappy
> connection on the fuse box.. My first Rangie a 1983 Classis...Reggie had a
> regular problem along similar lines which I recall was oxidised fuse
> carriers..while the fuse was ok and the voltage got through it simply
wasn't
> good enough to flash the indiactors... If my memory serves me right the
> Hazards run from a seperate relay so that they work with the ignition
> off.... Have a jiggle in your box.
>
> This was a RRC with the glass type fuses in the engine bay just infront of
> the passenger side bulkhead ... not the later type with the fuses on the
> left of the centre console.
>
I had the same fault on my 110 some 5 years or so ago, turned out tho be the
hazard switch which contained a set of changeover contacts to use the
flasher for all 4 at once instead of the normal side by side operation. When
you switch hazards on, it disconnects the power feed from the indicator
switch supply, if hazard switch contact fails then no indicators when
hazards off.
Badger.

 

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Kieran Turner

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #6

"Steve Hoppé" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Need some help please guys, indicators have stopped working, hazards still
> work, fuses all ok, flasher relay kicks into action, good contacts on the
> stalk unit.. I am rapidly running out of idea's. Anyone had the same sort
of
> fault?

If there's a towbar fitted, check there isn't a short in the electrical
connector.

K

 

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Paul - xxx

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #7

Steve Hoppé vaguely muttered something like ...
> Need some help please guys, indicators have stopped working, hazards still
> work, fuses all ok, flasher relay kicks into action, good contacts on the
> stalk unit.. I am rapidly running out of idea's. Anyone had the same sort
> of fault?

Earth fault. On my S3 similar symptoms, corroded earth strap twixt ebgine
and chassis .. new one (two actually, one from chassis to battery, one from
engine to chassis) cured it .. Good. clean, joints are essential.

--
Paul ...

(8(|) ... Homer Rocks

"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

 

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EMB

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #8

Badger wrote:

> I had the same fault on my 110 some 5 years or so ago, turned out tho be the
> hazard switch which contained a set of changeover contacts to use the
> flasher for all 4 at once instead of the normal side by side operation. When
> you switch hazards on, it disconnects the power feed from the indicator
> switch supply, if hazard switch contact fails then no indicators when
> hazards off.

I'll second that.


--
EMB
change two to number to reply

 

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Austin Shackles

Guest

• Aug 13, 2004

• #9

On or around Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:43:10 +0100, "Badger"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>I had the same fault on my 110 some 5 years or so ago, turned out tho be the
>hazard switch which contained a set of changeover contacts to use the
>flasher for all 4 at once instead of the normal side by side operation. When
>you switch hazards on, it disconnects the power feed from the indicator
>switch supply, if hazard switch contact fails then no indicators when
>hazards off.


I've had that one too, cost me a new hazard switch.

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria"
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) from Divina Commedia 'Inferno'

 

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Larry

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #10

In my experience it pays to know your wiring and how to by pass in an
emergency, I don't have hazards but I had my indicators and stop light fail
on more than one occasion and it turned out to be the fuse box
notwithstanding it was all wired up wrong anyway.

My stalk is knackered and I am not paying the cost of another one which will
only get knackered as well.

No double entendre intended, this is a family newsgruop we are reminded


--
þT

L'autisme c'est moi

"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"



"Steve Hoppé" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Need some help please guys, indicators have stopped working, hazards still
> work, fuses all ok, flasher relay kicks into action, good contacts on the
> stalk unit.. I am rapidly running out of idea's. Anyone had the same sort
of
> fault?
>
> Steve
>
> 85 RRC 3.5 V8
>
>

 

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Paul - xxx

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #11

Lee_D vaguely muttered something like ...
> "Paul - xxx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Good. clean, joints are essential.
>>
>
> Ahem.... this is a family newsgroup I'll have you know.

>Have a jiggle in your box.

You were saying ????



--
Paul ...

(8(|) ... Homer Rocks

"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

 

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SimonJ

Guest

• Aug 13, 2004

• #12

> > I had the same fault on my 110 some 5 years or so ago, turned out tho be
the
> > hazard switch which contained a set of changeover contacts to use the
> > flasher for all 4 at once instead of the normal side by side operation.
When
> > you switch hazards on, it disconnects the power feed from the indicator
> > switch supply, if hazard switch contact fails then no indicators when
> > hazards off.
>
> I'll second that.
>
Thirded!!

Leave an indicator switched on, and try having a fiddle with the hazard
switch, see if you get any life from indicators.

 

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Lee_D

Guest

• Aug 12, 2004

• #13

"Paul - xxx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>Good. clean, joints are essential.
>

Ahem.... this is a family newsgroup I'll have you know.


;-)

But regards the problems my money is on... Earth as suggested or crappy
connection on the fuse box.. My first Rangie a 1983 Classis...Reggie had a
regular problem along similar lines which I recall was oxidised fuse
carriers..while the fuse was ok and the voltage got through it simply wasn't
good enough to flash the indiactors... If my memory serves me right the
Hazards run from a seperate relay so that they work with the ignition
off.... Have a jiggle in your box.

This was a RRC with the glass type fuses in the engine bay just infront of
the passenger side bulkhead ... not the later type with the fuses on the
left of the centre console.



Lee D
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