Re: [T3] Indicator Problems - Help

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 26 Aug 2004 at 23:50, Steven Cooper wrote:

> My indicators started playing up today.  The "lane change" feature works ie
> when you only push the stalk half way, but when you push all the they didn't
> work at all.

My car does the same thing on one side. I just have to nudge it back a squinch 
to make it work again. I suspect that it's just a matter of the mechanism being 
worn a bit, so that the lever can move farther than it should so that the 
contacts touch and then move completely past one another.

I think there are really just 3 contacts involved: one in the middle and one to 
each side. There's probably a moving contact which normally just sits in the 
middle but then bridges between center and left or center and right when moved 
to either side. It could be that the moving contact is worn somewhere, or that 
the edges of the center contact are worn, or that something that should be 
spring loaded is sticking.

I'll take mine apart one of these days and see if there's something that needs 
to be cleaned up or freed up or bent, or just replaced. These have several 
fragile parts in them, so I never throw bad ones away. They often make good 
organ donors for repairing others.

-- 
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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