Help desperately needed!

My RH indicator is flashing rapidly, turns out the front has two bulbs (I hadn't realised before). One of the bulbs has blown, well at least I thought it had!




The centre pin is earth and the two others supply the inboard and outboard bulbs respectively. I have a healthy supply to the inboard lamp, but not the outboard. I have checked not only at the bulb holder but also at the harness socket.

I also tried to bridge both +ve to load the relay correctly and slow the flash down but both bulbs then flash rapidly.

I presume the dual supply to the bulbs was some kind of redundancy safety idea otherwise I see no purpose when two bulbs could have been run from one +ve wire!

Does anyone have any idea why there would be no supply to one bulb?

Many thanks!

 

Yep, I mentioned this a long time ago.

Trace the wiring to the outer edge of the fender/wing/mudguard, and there is a multi pin loom connector. There is one on each side.

Seperate this connector, clean the crud out, check for broken wires (rare), and replug them.

This is 99.9% of the issue.

 

I shall try this tonight. Thanks!

 

Now that was Karma for ya.

My old X300 owner rang today with the RH indicators flashing fast, and the front lamp only flashing ONE bulb, REALLY.

Pulled the guard liner up put the way, unplugged that connector, sprayed it with WD40, it was CLEAN, and replugged, sweet as.

Followed my own advice and fixed in 5minutes flat out.

 

Finally got round to doing this, it was indeed the connector as advised.

I did have trouble finding it with the description given but got there in the end.

For the benefit of others, the connector is right down at the corner of the front bumper, hidden by the arch liner.

Thanks for the help!