Not what your going to initially think.

I turned my car on the other day and my turn signals were blinking increadibly fast (twice the speed). So I thought "no big deal, it's just a burned out turn signal bulb", but I went to check and they were on. Every thing seems to be just fine, however I got this damn ricer blinking thing going on . Can someone point me down the right direction please, cause all my lights are working just fine it seems...

 

check your internal lights as well.

 

Exactly which lights did you check? And when you put on your hazards do they flash at normal speed or fast?

 

seems fine...

and hazzards flash normal...


[Modified by 401-2001, 2:27 PM 7/3/2002]

 

haha "ricer blinking thing" ownz joo!! no for real though I dunno much about electrical stuff to know the answer to your problem.

on a blinker side note, anyone know where I can find that thread that keeps the blinker BRIGHT at all times when turned on, not just when blinking?

 

IIRC when my lights went out the hazards flashed fast. the wires for my front corners are cut and rewired a little and until I stop being lazy and fix it I have fast blinker/normal hazzard like you.. so I'd check the wiring to make sure nothing happened to it.. other than that.. flasher unit/relay/whatever maybe?

 

That's what I was wondering...I look through helms for a bit but could find out if there was a flasher relay; could it be a relay gone bad?

 

Just check the wiring... almost the same thing happened last week with the GS-R I just bought my brother.... the guy who had it before had done some stupid stuff to the front signals... he only had one bulb for each side and then when we hooked up the secondary blinker and the light bulbs.. the left signal kept on blinking really fast, but he right blinker was fine.... it all turns out that the guy at the autoparts store sold the wrong light bulbs to my brother... he had given my brother the 1156 instead of the 1157...(not too sure about the part #s), but I know that it was just off by one and after we got the correct lights.. everything worked fine... but that wrong bulb caused a lot of problems... gauge cluster didn't light up properly... hazards didn't work correct... and other mysterious things.. but changed the bulb and everything was fine again....

 

Mine, blink fast too... not sure why


Craig - Who put his insurance check toward the new house

 

AP - When the hell did that happen?

 

Like 2 weeks before expo Still looks the same to this day

It drives like the day i bought it so who gives a fawk... I've got better things to spend my money on.

Craig - Who is still looking for a NHP front cap and lip


[Modified by AssPenny, 2:45 PM 7/3/2002]

 

Did you replace with a lower wattage bulb?
or maybe the filament went bad or there is a dirty connection which would result in less current flow.

Current draw through the relay will determine flash rate.

 

It's the same wattage...I noticed that there are two copper connections on the inside of the plug...could they possibly not connecting? What are both of the connections for...do they have indiviual purposes?

 

Take the UK spec bulbs out, put the stockers in and see if you still have the prob......if you have not already.....

Ps.....I'll prob have those threads done for ya friday....

 

Faster blinking signal makes your car turn faster.

 

same thing happened on my integra, turned out to be a short in the sytem.

 

wow, i like that floor jack.

 

Happened to me as well. The bulb looked like it was working but it actually had a losse filament. Replaced the bulb and all was fine.

 

turn your running lights on i beleive their's a seperate filiment in one side of the bulb. At least on my 95 gsr their is.

 

dude what kind of board is da?

u skate?

 

you might be like CWTypeR463 and have speedblinkers....

 

 

Well, looked into helms a little more and realized that there is a relay associated with the turn singals and hazard unit. They cover a couple of tests that are propably worth trying. There are three prongs on the relay and each have a purpose, so it is possibly a relay issue. We'll check and see more on whats going on...let you know soon.

BTW - EAGLER thanks for the advice, but I ditched those chitty euro spec bulbs...they are really cool, but would rather have the euro connect for the euro bulb! That's much better than dremeling off teeth and crap!


[Modified by 401-2001, 6:05 PM 7/4/2002]

 

whats the news on this?? i just put all the bulbs in my car and hazards flash normal and blinkers are fast. did you mess with the relay?

 

"faster blinkers make your car turn faster"

hahaha