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vaz2121

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From: Glasgow Living:~ SW. Scotland

Registered: 2015-08-31

Posts: 1,311

Intermittent Indicators

Several weeks ago and not long after buying our little camper and while prepping it to go on our first real trip (2,000 mls +, East coast, Orkney and West coast Scotland) I had it checked out and found grungy green terminals on the trailer socket when fitting a Tow step, So duly cleaned it seemed to have cured the occasional wonky Indicators when turning left.

About a month ago I borrowed A fairly new trailer and after doing the usual checks, we set off to East Sussex with the van to pick up some bits of furniture I had left behind when I had permanently returned to Scotland.

During this trip the right hand Indicator started acting up, same as the left had been doing ( No flash but flasher unit sounds of going nuts ) Not all the time just when it was really busy and someone was right up your jack-see
And as if by magic my partners Peugeot 306 then decided to join in.....But hers made the flasher unit go nuts after it had canceled the Indicators................

My mechanic friend had just changed the Indicator and wiper stalks on a berlingo which had some weird traits after the local Citroen place suggested a reset of the BSI was done but to no avail...... I'm not even sure if our two have a BSI.........
It was the young lad at the garage said the stalks on a their Scudo were the same as our two and not the comms 2000 type as on that Berlingo.
I bought some electrical contact cleaner and used about half the can flushing out the two Indicator stalks ...... The 306 responded well and has worked perfect ever since (Touch wood) but the van was now both left and right Indications acting up.... so I bought a new stalk of of eBay which never arrived ( but that's another story )
Off to the local breakers ...... non of the Experts, Scudos or Dispatches had there Indicator stalks  left in them the 206 had a comms 2000 fitted but it was a Berlingo that had the matching stalk to my Dispatch so off it came to get me out a hole.
I fitted it to the van to find that everything worked exept the rear fog light.... On closer inspection the Berlingo's stalk had 14 pins mine had 13...... Berlingo's stalk had two wires coming out the stalk and one wire going to each side where the multi plugs go , The van had two wires also but both went to the same side.... So returned ....... I then decided to pop the top off the switch and had an explosion of springs N bits .... I managed to recover all of them or so I thought..........
More electrical cleaner and some kitchen roll and i cleaned out what looked like black metallic grease all over the contacts...... I then reassembled the springs to control the auto return ETC and now it's working great with no problems for the last fortnight/3 weeks although It feels a little less firm on the main beam on/off side of things ...... I think that's got something to do with little spring and plastic bit my partner found on the floor .

I don't know how many versions of Indicator stalks are out there. I'm told there could be 3 or 4 brands and part numbers to cross reference (The breaker was sure it matched.... ?)
Ive decided that the 306 as it  is working OK at the moment... I'll leave well alone as it has front fogs as well as the rears on the stalk and probably more springs to contend
with knowing my luck.

This link gave me the inspiration to have a go at cleaning

http://philsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/20 … epair.html

Tiree

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From: Galloway

Registered: 2013-09-20

Posts: 336

Re: Intermittent Indicators

Thanks for sharing that journey Vaz! Sure it will help others

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2006 Citroen Dispatch 2.0HDi bought in July 2013 - Partial camper conversion ........