Date:         Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:36:18 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: turn signal indicator weirdness
Comments: To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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At 06:06 AM 11/15/2010  -0800, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
>Okay, when the high beam indicator stopped working a few months ago
>I replaced the bulb and that fixed it.  When the turn signal
>indicator on the dash stopped working a few weeks back I figured it
>was the bulb also and would eventually replace it as well.

LED, not bulb.  Hardly ever fail except by violence.

>  However, over the weekend I had occasion to use the four-way
> flashers and the bulb for the signals worked for that, but does not
> when used simply for a left or right turn.
>
>I honestly can't recall if before the failure the bulb did actually
>work for the four-ways,

It did.

>  but it does now in addition to the four-way switch lighting
> up.  Interestingly, the bulb lights for the four-way when the key
> is off but not when the key is on.

Good clue.

>   Turn signals, of course, only work with the key on but the bulb
> does not work for them.  Signal lights at all four corners work
> when they're supposed to for both the flashers and the signals.  What gives?

Ah, Watson -- this looks like a three-pipe problem.  I'll get back to you.

Yours,
d