I assume this is the turn signal relay that has gone out or spazzed out or something. I checked the owner's manual but can find where the turn signal relay is...anyone know? The right one is fine, and the hazards are fine.
kenpokid
Left Turn Signal Flashing Fast
check to make sure all your bulbs are working while your hazards are on. i bet there is 1 bulb that is blown. cuz of this bulb being blow, all the voltage is being routed to a single bulb, causing it to twice the work, hence flashing quickly.
hope this helps[thumb]
hope this helps[thumb]
interesting...I think mine might be my side marker, since I bought them off of e-bay...but I will check the others when I get back from school.
yea one of your bulbs is blown this happened to my friend nick one day when we were driving and it was his rear taillight that went out he put a new one in and its fine
Quick and dirty explanation of what is going on. When a bulb burns out on a turn signal the overal circuit load drops causing the blinker to blink faster. The blinker system works on a Resistance/Capacitance or RC circuit. T=RC where T = period(time required to blink the light on and off), R = resistance, and C = capacitance....so if you take 1 of the two bulbs out the resistance becomes half of what it originally was so T=(1/2)RC. This means T is equal to half of what it once was meaning the time require to blink the light on and off is cut in half thus making the blinker blink faster. I believe that is right. If someone else knows otherwise let me know so I don't go on thinking the wrong thing...but I do believe that is right. I know the T=RC part is right and I'm pretty sure the blinker system is an RC circuit.
lol. I'm no Bill Nye...but I did stay at a holida inn express last night [
] hehehe....but that's what 4 years of electrical engineering school does to you.
] hehehe....but that's what 4 years of electrical engineering school does to you.
[headbang] rock on dude! Classes are startin to get hella hard for me but I'm pushin on through. Bad thing is, I'm off by a semester on some of my sequence classes and I'm co-oping....all that combined puts me 1.5 years behind on graduation. Oh well [] I'll be out of school in December of 2007 if everything goes ok.
I put the EE in geek! []
] I'll be out of school in December of 2007 if everything goes ok. I put the EE in geek! [
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I am a freshman at Drexel doing IT...[]
On topic now[] : The driver's side tail lamp bulb is out...so I am getting a replacement for it...anyone know the the part number?
] On topic now[
] : The driver's side tail lamp bulb is out...so I am getting a replacement for it...anyone know the the part number?
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not always is it a bulb. my wife's SUV had a bad flasher unit. was doing the same thing twice as fast on the left side but i checked and all the bulbs were fine. just to make sure i replaced it still no fix. had to replace the flasher unit.
not always is it a bulb. my wife's SUV had a bad flasher unit. was doing the same thing twice as fast on the left side but i checked and all the bulbs were fine. just to make sure i replaced it still no fix. had to replace the flasher unit.
Yeah, it's not always going to be that but 9 times out of 10 I'd check all the bulbs. Occasionally something goes haywire in the unit though.
Yeah, always check the bulbs first....Don't want to end up paying out more money than needed by buying new relays and such when all you need is a bulb...
I believe that modern cars including Foci use the discrete model instead of the analog one that you just described. Why did I come to this conclusion? When I was rewiring the rear tail lights, I made my b/u lights act as the blinkers instead of the stop lights. The stop light bulb (3157) filament is rated 27W, and the back-up (921) is only 18W. The frequency did not change a bit. Later, when I was trying to use a 13W bulb (912) as a blinker, the frequency of flashing became much greater. By using an analog model, I could not explain why the frequency does not change at all when the power consumption decreases from 27W to 18W, yet it starts blinking way too fast when the power decreases further to 13W [confused]svt_gEEk said:
P.S. I am majoring in EE too [thumb]
That's very odd that it didn't change the frequency when moving from a 27W bulb to a 18W bulb but changed when using a 13W. [scratch] I didn't go as far as to test out the circuit but that's the first thing I could think of when it happened to me, just assumed it was a normal RC circuit. Interesting find though, you've got me thinking now, lol. I can't explain that, lol.
^^^nerds[] ..I picked up new tail lamp bulbs today, gonna put them in this afternoon. Also gotta fix my exhaust from rattling, pushed out to far so the rubber hanger is stretched and not "hanging" properly[]
] ..I picked up new tail lamp bulbs today, gonna put them in this afternoon. Also gotta fix my exhaust from rattling, pushed out to far so the rubber hanger is stretched and not "hanging" properly[]intermittent
Hi. help needed. my rear left indicator works then stops working and starts working intermittently. while its not working it flashes faster, when it does work all is fine. I checked the bulb and its fine. I then changed my head lamp as I discovered that was out but my indicator still works intermittently! I cant see any other lights that are out causing this problem. Everyone keeps saying change the bulb but it does work for a week then doesn't. cant find a reason why?
Hi. help needed. my rear left indicator works then stops working and starts working intermittently. while its not working it flashes faster, when it does work all is fine. I checked the bulb and its fine. I then changed my head lamp as I discovered that was out but my indicator still works intermittently! I cant see any other lights that are out causing this problem. Everyone keeps saying change the bulb but it does work for a week then doesn't. cant find a reason why?
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