Indicators dead!

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HeywoodFloyd

HeywoodFloyd

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I'm 500 miles from home and need to fix this tomorrow or I can't get back... Sod driving that far without indicators.

All of a sudden my trailer warning light came on, and the indicators stopped working. Hazards too.

It's pitch black now so I'm going to try a few things in the morning, here's what I'm going to try:

1) Check all the blinkers and their wires for some sort of short.

2) hard wire the hazard switch's permanent supply to the feed to the stalk, to see if it's just a dead hazard switch. I've got a bit of old cable thankfully to try this.

Does anyone else have any ideas? I'm desperate. I don't have a ton of tools with me, or a meter for measuring anything so it's all a bit of guess work really.
 
I'm up in Scotland. Please tell me it's not the relay! I can't fix that from here! It's fairly new too! Came with the LED light kit last year.
 
Led light kit? That complicates things slightly, Do you have any normal bulbs to try?
 
Yeah I installed the wipac LED kit that replaces all of the indicators, side lights and break lights, came with a replacement indicator relay too. Has been working fine for a year. I can't change bulbs as they are purpose built enclosed units, not replacement bulbs.
 
I dont know much about led kits but with normal lights I would suspect the relay and work from there, a fly lead across the relay socket would show up a dud relay.
 
You never know - the local boys are pretty good. And if not, then you might well qualify for Relay home - think of the fuel saving!! What time should I pick you up????? :D
 
I thought I'd just let you know what happened in the end, as it's so amusing. Called breakdown people, said they don't carry spare indicator relays for defenders, then started banging on about alternative options, etc. But we had 2 big dogs, and a shed load of baggage with us, and were on quite a tight time schedule to return in time for work. So, I decided to get all macgyver, and came up with a (highly unsafe and illegal) solution to get us home...

... I cut the wires to my roof floods, and used the wires to connect the permanent supply and left/right indicators in the hazzard switch connector, to 2 spare switches on my modular centre console. The wife then had to manually blink the appropriate indicators for me (I called it "voice activated blinkers") all the way 500 miles home.

She was a bit grumpy last night when we got home, but... we got home!
 
neilly said:
Creative.....I like it.........Did you have to write L and R on her hands???....:p
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haha, she insisted I said "left" or "right" indicators, rather than "I'm pulling out to overtake now" and "I'm tucking back in".

at one point a small argument broke out when she decided I was going too fast overtaking a convoy of lorries, and started indicating left to pull back in, forcing me to do so, just out of embarrassment from the cars around me. It was a good test of our marriage really, we got through it.
 
HeywoodFloyd said:
I thought I'd just let you know what happened in the end, as it's so amusing. Called breakdown people, said they don't carry spare indicator relays for defenders, then started banging on about alternative options, etc. But we had 2 big dogs, and a shed load of baggage with us, and were on quite a tight time schedule to return in time for work. So, I decided to get all macgyver, and came up with a (highly unsafe and illegal) solution to get us home...

... I cut the wires to my roof floods, and used the wires to connect the permanent supply and left/right indicators in the hazzard switch connector, to 2 spare switches on my modular centre console. The wife then had to manually blink the appropriate indicators for me (I called it "voice activated blinkers") all the way 500 miles home.

She was a bit grumpy last night when we got home, but... we got home!
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LOL loving it....
 
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