Indicators -arrgh

[v8s4me]

My indicators are not very good at cancelling (like most I suppose) so I'm looking at wiring in a beeper to warn me they are still on 5 miles down the road. I was hoping to piggy back off the flasher relay as I don't want to cut inot the wires on the steering column. I've just dislocated my shoulder trying to get at the little bu**er. Any suggestions while I pop down tot he physio? Thanks

[Tommy Cooper]

v8s4me said:

My indicators are not very good at cancelling (like most I suppose) so I'm looking at wiring in a beeper to warn me they are still on 5 miles down the road. I was hoping to piggy back off the flasher relay as I don't want to cut inot the wires on the steering column. I've just dislocated my shoulder trying to get at the little bu**er. Any suggestions while I pop down tot he physio? Thanks

Hi Joe

Just taken mine out,it was driving me around the bend.FOC if you want it .PM me

Coops

[techbotics]

Don't really want a buzzer is a louder relay available?

D s3

[Barkychoc]

I did an old relay on the seat frame for my old grandad bless him, he couldn't hear a bloody thing! You can feel the clicking.

Note that if you take a feed from the indicator tell tale dash light it has a strange power feed arrangement - each side of the tell tale light is connected to the positive of each side (this is normal practice not a TVR thing).

When one side is energised the power flows through the tell tale light then is earthed through the bulbs on the opposite side, whether you understand this or not what you do need to know is that the power to the dash light changes polarity according to which way you are indicating - so you need to take both wires from it, not one wire and an earth.

[phillpot]

Barkychoc said:

Note that if you take a feed from the indicator tell tale dash light it has a strange power feed arrangement - each side of the tell tale light is connected to the positive of each side (this is normal practice not a TVR thing).

Mmmmm could that be why the warning lamp is so dim, or is because its behind that smoked glass panel on the S3 ?

I have a little buzzer wired across the flasher unit, dash warning lamp just doesn't show up especially on a bright day

[v8s4me]

Thanks for the tips gents. Any tips on geting at the little bustard without dismantling the dash? Thanks. Joe

[tvrgit]

I went for a slightly different solution: I was fed up with it cancelling when I didn't want it to, and staying on when I wanted it to cancel, so I disabled the self-cancel by removing the switch on the steering column, and taping over the little pawl that flicks the switch back to "off".

Now it indicates when I want it to, and stops when I tell it. Far better on roundabouts and at junctions just around bends. It really doesn't take long to get used to it - I don't think I've ever forgotten to switch them off. When you know you have to do it yourself, you do.

I need to do the same to the Cerbera, and my day car - they are both driving me bonkers, because they both very rarely self-cancel on slight left turns, leaving roundabouts for instance. Yet they both cancel straight away with even the slightest "straightening up" when turning right - going round roundabouts that aren't perfectly round, for example.