Mfoehrkolb

00 Ek dx hatch.



There is a link to the video I made of what's going on...


The front drivers side blinker is extremely bright... To the point where it lights up street signs... I put in all new bulbs, no change.

Lights off, blinker is slow but dim.
Driving lights, steady blinker is bright as heck, and blinker dim, fast when it wants to.
Headlights on, steady blinker light is bright, and the blinking is dim, sometimes fast.

For some reason, the larger filament that is normally the blinker... Is the steady light. The filament that is normally the driving light, is now the blinker.


It doesn't always blink fast, but the longer I leave it on... It slowly get faster and faster.

All my lights are totally fine except for the driver side blinker bulb.

jdmh22eg2

In for this as i have same issue expt mine does not blink at all just bright as fvk. And i am to lazy to diag it

Mfoehrkolb

--- When the parking lights or headlights are on... Don't get me wrong. The blink is barely visible... At best.

jdmh22eg2

Only pay attention when headlights are on as i dont run around with just park lamps on, and i get zero blink out of my driver side front

mikekh10a

iTrader: (2)

i wanna say it's a wiring issue. you'll have to trace the wires to see if there are any splices or corrosion, etc

ALittleTooHigh

do both sides do it? or just that one side? If its just the one side it could be the housing

Mfoehrkolb

--- I just converted it from ob2b to obd2a, all the wiring and repinning is fine. There is def. no splicing going on or tears in the harness. Tears, corrosion etc wouldn't explain the continuities being switched on the drivers side.


--- Its just 1 side, but the bulb socket is like brand new. The car has always been garage kept, and rarely driven in the elements. Only has 50k original miles on the car since I purchased it new.

I did all the general obvious diagnostics for this. What I will check tomorrow with my other fluke multimeter, is the continuity... See if the negative and positive wires are reversed in polarity...

Negative being positive and positive being negative... If... That is the issue, it has to be my wiring that I repinned (which I doubt) or some type of module or relay.

Axatax

There's a box that looks like a relay attached to the under-dash fuse box that controls the blinkers.

It's possible there is an internal short which is causing the unit to overheat (they're opened/closed by thermal action, kinda like the old Christmas light blinker).

Mfoehrkolb

--- Do me a favor and google a picture of the fuse box, and circle the relay in question.

Axatax

Mfoehrkolb

Okay, thanks. I am going to the junk yard tomorrow to grab a wiper relay thats on the back of the box... So i will grab that one also. Keep you posted!

Mfoehrkolb

UPDATE: I replaced the relay with another one, and no difference. Still have the wrong filaments lighting up.

Mfoehrkolb

ttt need some diagnostic ideas!

Mfoehrkolb

Did some more diagnosing today and found out that it wasn't a bulb issue, or relay issue or a wiring problem even... The socket on that side is very pristine so it didn't even cross my mind... must just be faulty of a sort. New base fixed the problem.