carter wrote:
So i fixed the problem... I know that a lot of people will just shake their head with their eyes closed or look at the ground and shake their head or just think I need a good slap in the head. What happened was I just took the flasher unit from my clubman which was working perfectly fine it was actually a 2 pronged flasher not a 3. bought a 3 and boom fixed.......But i cant get the light on the end of the indicator to work..... how does this work? putting an active to the light wire does nothing put an earth to that wire does nothing and it does not go active when the indicators are on..... ideas on that one?
The light should be connected to the extra pin on the flasher. You will need to follow the wire, testing if it is has power or not at every accessible point. Some of these points can be eliminated with how you connected power for testing. The test points should be:
- Flasher pin
- bullet connector going to switch
- solder terminal on switch where the wire joins to go thru the switch
- light socket terminal
If that all tests good then check that there is an earth at the light socket, it goes thru the switches tube/lever. Test that the tube is earthed.
If that is all good then test the bulb, I would say do this first but it is probably easier to do the other tests than find a way to hold and connect the bulb outside of the switch.
With the quality of new parts it could be any of the above or even the flasher. Once you determine where power isn't available then you can work out exactly what is the fault is, such as is it the wire or is it the bulb socket terminal.
