Rogue hazards - any ideas

[asd2001]

Midway on a run out this morning hazard warning lights randomly came in. Switch was in off position. Pushed switch in / out, initially they stayed on then all back to normal after about 8 cycles of the switch. Every couple of minutes this happened again, exactly the same. Didn’t seem to be any trigger (I was on a smooth road, for once!). One time they went back to normal when I used the indicators.

Parked up for a while and all normal on the way home.

Could this be the relay on the way out, bad earth (which one), something else? I’ve got a 97 chimaera.

Thanks in advance.
Andrew

[nawarne]

Andrew, my guess would be that the Meta alarm is starting to degrade.

Had similar symptoms on my Chimaera. In the end had to have the siren and the immobiliser renewed by Carl.

Speak to Dave Fairclough at HF solutions http://www.hf-solutions.co.uk/.

He'll give an honest opinion.
Nick

[Steve_D]

Try turning the hazards on on see if you think they are flashing at a different rate to before.

The hazards use the same flasher module as the indicators but the immobiliser uses its own flasher so may run at a slightly different rate.

Some notes.
It won't be the flasher module. R14
It could be the hazard relay sticking but unlikely. R19
It could be the switch.
It could be the switch control module (year dependant)
It could be the immobiliser.

Steve

[Loubaruch]

The Meta system operates the indicators completely separately from the Hazard circuit to indicate the status of the alarm/immobiliser.

I believe the suggestion above could well be the problem

[Loubaruch]

The Meta system operates the indicators completely separately from the Hazard circuit to indicate the status of the alarm/immobiliser.

I believe the suggestion above could well be the problem

[Penelope Stopit]

Pull the hazard flasher fuse and test

[Steve_D]

Penelope Stopit said:

Pull the hazard flasher fuse and test

Fuse 6

Steve

[Penelope Stopit]

Steve_D said:

Penelope Stopit said:

Pull the hazard flasher fuse and test

Fuse 6

Steve

Pull hazard flasher fuse 6 and test

Nicely done

[tonys]

Is it the same fuse number for all years? seem to recall that there were a couple of different fuse boxes/boards over the years.

[asd2001]

So all seemed fine again when I was out and about today and couldn’t get the fault to reappear. I’m thinking that the alarm must have got out of sync (car had been sitting for almost a couple of weeks with the door not 100% closed for my trickle charger and I’d probably pressed the fob button a few times with it like that).

It does mean that my alarm sounder isn’t working - confirmed that today but didn’t have time to look into it today. It’s got a new meta 5 in it so hopefully easy to sort out. Time to take dash off to check connections.

Thanks for your help.
Andrew

[baconsarney]

Andrew my 98 Chim does this every June and again in August, and has done for the last eight years. It's definitely an indication of something not quite right....