I just got my car back from the body shop. The shop was replacing the passenger's side door skin and repainting the passenger side.

After i get it back, both of my front turn signals aren't working now. They don't turn on when i use the turn signal, when i use hazzard lights or when i turn on the headlights. The rears work fine but the fronts don't. The driver's side blinks fast but the passenger side blinks regular.

One small thing was that I think someone was messing around with my car alarm at the body shop and I think they changed something around. Is there anything someone might tap into with an alarm that would affect the turnsignals/hazzard lights?

Any help, aside from "Check the fuses" is appreciated?




Modified by FuNkDrSpOt at 4:15 PM 5/21/2008

 

check the fuse and bulbs.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 0LdsKooL &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">check the fuse and bulbs.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I was gonna be my usual sarcastic self but I will just simply say that I've already done that. Thank you.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by FuNkDrSpOt &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I just got my car back from the body shop and both of my front turn signals aren't working now. Is this a relay issue?


Modified by FuNkDrSpOt at 7:57 AM 5/20/2008</TD></TR></TABLE>

Bump.

I'm going to have them take a look at it but i'd rather keep it out of their hands since it looks like one of the guys that works there decided to try and play around with my alarm, not knowing it was my decoy alarm.

 

check to see if your hazard switch is plugged in.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HGZ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">check to see if your hazard switch is plugged in. </TD></TR></TABLE>

See, this is what gets me....would the hazzard switch only cut off the front lights? Wouldn't it cut off the back lights too?

Right now the rear lights work but the front turn signals don't light up if i use the steering column, my hazzard lights or if i turn on my headlights.

 

yeah if your hazard switch wasn't working or disconnected, your rear signals wouldn't work either.

when you say "front turn signals don't light up...if i turn on my headlights" then i am guessing your parking lights aren't working for the front either. which would lead me to believe that you aren't getting power to your front turn sockets at all, almost like someone snipped the wires with scissors or something.

if you needed your front bumper removed when they did work at the body shop perhaps they might have really messed something up..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HGZ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah if your hazard switch wasn't working or disconnected, your rear signals wouldn't work either.

when you say "front turn signals don't light up...if i turn on my headlights" then i am guessing your parking lights aren't working for the front either. which would lead me to believe that you aren't getting power to your front turn sockets at all, almost like someone snipped the wires with scissors or something.

if you needed your front bumper removed when they did work at the body shop perhaps they might have really messed something up..</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah, I seriously think that one of the workers there tried to mess with my alarm because when i got the car back the decoy alarm was causing my power in my
dash to go out when i turned the key and it was almost like a power kill. I was stranded for 45 min before i decided to pop the clutch.

So where would someone snip the power at if they were under the dash? Where would i look incase I wanted to fix this?

 

hmm. thats a tough one without really knowing for sure how or if they did in fact mess with your alarm. im not sure exactly how to hook up an alarm or how to even hook up a decoy but when you say your alarm is doing something funky to your power when you try to turn the key, then yeah i would definitely suspect something is not right with it. the turn signal issue confuses things even more.

did you install the alarm yourself? hopefully you dont have to completely yank it out to figure out whats going on, but by the sounds of things thats what you might need to do..

a little more detail as to why your car was in the body shop to begin with might shed some light.. if it was in a minor accident maybe some wiring somewhere was cut?

i wish i could help more! electrical problems suck!

BUMP for any ideas!

 

check the bulbs and fuses

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PEACEeasy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">check the bulbs and fuses </TD></TR></TABLE>

are you f**king serious? Now i see why Archi gets so pissed off dealing with Noobs.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HGZ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hmm. thats a tough one without really knowing for sure how or if they did in fact mess with your alarm. im not sure exactly how to hook up an alarm or how to even hook up a decoy but when you say your alarm is doing something funky to your power when you try to turn the key, then yeah i would definitely suspect something is not right with it. the turn signal issue confuses things even more.

did you install the alarm yourself? hopefully you dont have to completely yank it out to figure out whats going on, but by the sounds of things thats what you might need to do..

a little more detail as to why your car was in the body shop to begin with might shed some light.. if it was in a minor accident maybe some wiring somewhere was cut?

i wish i could help more! electrical problems suck!

BUMP for any ideas!</TD></TR></TABLE>

The car was in the body shop because some jackass backed into my drivers side door as I was waiting for a parking spot.

They took off the door skin and used the same door. They also paint matched and blended the front and rear fenders and the mirror to the door.

 

Has water gotten into the bulb housing? This happened to one of my turn signals, it rusted the connectors and the signal would either lock itself on, or never come on.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DarkShade9 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Has water gotten into the bulb housing? This happened to one of my turn signals, it rusted the connectors and the signal would either lock itself on, or never come on.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I just think they accidentally cut the wiring when they took off the bumper.