Indicator bulb failure warning light

[Graze01]

07 V8V

So went out tonight and got failure warning for left indicator. Front definitely wasn't working as I could see in reflection when parking.

Left to come home, same warning and lights flashing double speed.

Stopped for ice cream, then drive home and hey presto all working normally again

Is this a gremlin or the beginnings of a module failure?

Battery is 4 months old so not related to low battery

Any advice appreciated

Graeme

[Handyman2009]

Halogen or HID bulb on your car... As it happen to me this summer and I have HID, the bulb went out then came back on again and the next time it was out for good. Bought 2 new HID like these and everything was back to normal, I was also told not to cheap out on the bulb due to our ballast very narrow margin of error.

[Graze01]

Handyman

its the indicator which is an LED as far as I'm aware



thanks

Graeme

Edited by Graze01 on Thursday 22 November 22:32

[Handyman2009]

so I guess not the high beam or main beam ?? Those are for the main beam and what you are saying is that your is the strip of led that stop working correct? if so then the only solution to that is to open the headlight and see what is wrong with it on the inside, often a cold solder joint or blown capacitor that feed the led. Just do a search here and 6speedonline as many people have DIY. Good luck

[huntsen]

A few points:
1. If you have HIDs, they are for the DIPPED beams. Ballasts are available from the likes of Scuderia Car Parts, but there are similar JLR parts that are a lot cheaper.
2. The left indicator is the turn thingy, that should flash when indicating; they are LEDs. If you have a dipped or main beam failure, the display will also tell you which one it is.
3. If it is the indicator LED strip that has gone, contact Matt at Industrial Electronic Repairs in Letchworth http://www.ieruk.com/ who can repair the pcb.

Edited by huntsen on Friday 23 November 13:14

[Graze01]

thanks Huntsen

have sent him an email

it is the indicator LED which is periodically failing

replacement part in Australia is over GBP2000

Graeme