Post by pyoorkate on Jun 19, 2008 19:32:46 GMT
So, the Hazard lights were briefly working, I say this only for it's potential (but I still can't work out how) relevance.
I spent a few minutes removing, one by one, the connectors on the back of the hazard light switch, cleaning them, and putting them back. I did the same for the hazard light-tell tale, and I worked the switch a bit. To make sure that this was all nice and safe I disconnected the battery negative/earth.
Having finished I put it all back together, reconnected the earth and tried the hazards. Lo, all was flashing.
A little earlier I'd switched over the horn to a new one, since the old one didn't work.
Then, in a fit of foolishness I decided to make sure that the car would start for it's short journey up the ramps onto the trailer tomorrow (for it is tomorrow that it goes to the welder). Yeah. No. It's started fine and run fine every few days / once a week since it's been here (apart from an occasionally high-pitched tinging sound which seemed to go away - and which I'd not been able to find or place). Today, after reconnecting the negative (promise, I didn't take both leads off, so it can't've been that). It'd even started several times earlier today. When I came to try this time, there was (and I may have imagined this) what looked like a puff of white smoke from the voltage regulator, followed by the solenoid for the starter clicking briefly, and then the ign and oil lights going out on the dash. No effort from the starter at all.
Having pootled around and checked connections I tried the igniton again, no lights / no hazards / no horn (so even the stuff that's meant to work with the ignition off isn't working).
Since then it's come back to life once since, but my attempt to use the starter went exactly the same way - and having faffed around tidying up for 20 minutes the dash-lights still weren't on. So, uh, fundamentally; help?!
I can't imagine that it's got anything *actually* to do with what I was doing, and it's purely misfortune and coincidence - but I'm not used to cars that have anything between their starter solenoids and the battery...
Does that voltage regulator do something more clever? The fuses all appear to be intact.
I spent a few minutes removing, one by one, the connectors on the back of the hazard light switch, cleaning them, and putting them back. I did the same for the hazard light-tell tale, and I worked the switch a bit. To make sure that this was all nice and safe I disconnected the battery negative/earth.
Having finished I put it all back together, reconnected the earth and tried the hazards. Lo, all was flashing.
A little earlier I'd switched over the horn to a new one, since the old one didn't work.
Then, in a fit of foolishness I decided to make sure that the car would start for it's short journey up the ramps onto the trailer tomorrow (for it is tomorrow that it goes to the welder). Yeah. No. It's started fine and run fine every few days / once a week since it's been here (apart from an occasionally high-pitched tinging sound which seemed to go away - and which I'd not been able to find or place). Today, after reconnecting the negative (promise, I didn't take both leads off, so it can't've been that). It'd even started several times earlier today. When I came to try this time, there was (and I may have imagined this) what looked like a puff of white smoke from the voltage regulator, followed by the solenoid for the starter clicking briefly, and then the ign and oil lights going out on the dash. No effort from the starter at all.
Having pootled around and checked connections I tried the igniton again, no lights / no hazards / no horn (so even the stuff that's meant to work with the ignition off isn't working).
Since then it's come back to life once since, but my attempt to use the starter went exactly the same way - and having faffed around tidying up for 20 minutes the dash-lights still weren't on. So, uh, fundamentally; help?!
I can't imagine that it's got anything *actually* to do with what I was doing, and it's purely misfortune and coincidence - but I'm not used to cars that have anything between their starter solenoids and the battery...
Does that voltage regulator do something more clever? The fuses all appear to be intact.