hey guys,

searched and found no answer. just kidding. symptoms: every once in awhile, usually mornings, when i flip the signal stalk to turn left, the driver's side blinker will blink like a ricer mobile. then it will not do that. its an occasional thing, which usually results in a burnt bulb a few days later.

i checked my brown ground wire and redid that on bare metal. my next move is to replace the fuse. after that, i'm going to tighten the mounts on the light plate (or whatever that thing is called).

any other suggestions?

bob

Sounds like the base of the bulb is losing contact with the bulb holder or the contact(s) in the bulb holder is/are retracting due to the cold and is/are not making contact with the bulb base and therefore the system senses a dead bulb filiment and "tadaaaa"! You get the winky bliky on the dash.

1) Look at the inside of the bulb holder and see if the tangs that contact the bulb base can be bent upward a bit more
or
2) Try a new bulb holder

stoney,

tangs...so thats the technical term thanks! I'll bend them up closer and see what happens. great tip, thanks

bob

i wanted to update my post here to let you know what the problems were:

- cleaned off the tangs, but that did not work
- changed *every* single fuse including the one that the lights reside on, but that didnt work
- changed the corner bulbs, swapped corner bulbs, etc., but that wasn't it.
- re-ground all the brown ground wires to a new place, that didn't work either

source of problem was corroded wires: yup, i sliced one down to see that the corrosion was pretty heavy. so i just cut about a foot off and soldered in new wires. voila. works like a charm now.