turn signal broke

[Hard H2O]

This is interesting.........

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/1ynr0-find-flasher-relay-jeep-liberty

Thanks for that info.

My wife has a 2006 Liberty.

This morning the wife went to work and the turn signals will not work.

The left dash indicator stays lit along with the front and rear driver side indicators. Even with it shut off and the key removed all three remain lit.

When I push in the hazard switch the left dash, front driver and rear driver indicators remain lit. The right dash indicator as well as the passenger side front and rear indicators flash once. This happens with the key on or off.

The same thing happens, with the key on, when I move the turn signal lever to indicate a right turn.

When I move the turn signal lever to indicate a left turn the three lights just stay on and nothing else happens.

I think we are taking it in to our mechanic tommorrow.

 

[BjBnet]

Blinker fluid low?

I'm sorry, that was not really helpful, but could not resist...

bwaaaaaaaahaaahaaaaaa I needed that this morning!!! (rotflmao)(rotflmao)

 

[Bikeflyer]

I'm definitely thinking the flasher is out. The reason the flasher moves faster when it is only running one bulb is it senses the bulb's "temperature". When it gets hot enough it turns off. If you had an electronic flasher instead, it would not notice this difference. I made that switch on my last vehicle because the loading of my trailer lights was making my turn signal flash at about 2seconds per cycle. They are cheap and usually not hard to change(usually). Check in your fuse panels for a little square, it will click when activated like was mentioned. I believe it's beside the driver's left vent when you open the door.

 

[liberty84]

Ok so I just replaced the hassard lights switch which is were all the clicking is coming from but I still gat the same, fron left flashes real quick and the rear doesn't work and right front doesn't work but the real goes real quick

Could it be the signal switch???
I checked all the fuses and everysingle one is ok

Now what????
I'm thinking to just take it to my mecanic

 

[liberty84]

So after I changed the hazzard lights swith and failed to make it work I took it to my mechanic and he made it work, on the back the the socket was dirty and on the front a cable was disconected so he made it work

 

[JeepJeepster]

I'm definitely thinking the flasher is out. The reason the flasher moves faster when it is only running one bulb is it senses the bulb's "temperature".

what? No it doesnt, it works based on resistance, not temperature.

Glad you got it figured out liberty84. Cant believe no one said to use a multimeter to check for proper volts at the plug. Thats where you should start.

 

[kb0nly]

what? No it doesnt, it works based on resistance, not temperature.

Glad you got it figured out liberty84. Cant believe no one said to use a multimeter to check for proper volts at the plug. Thats where you should start.

Actually it's a combination of both, but not temperature of the bulbs, its the temp of the spring in the flasher.

When you push the turn-signal stalk down, the thermal flasher connects to the turn-signal bulbs by way of the turn-signal switch. This completes the circuit, allowing current to flow. Initially, the spring steel does not touch the contact, so the only thing that draws power is the resistor. Current flows through the resistive wire, heating up the smaller piece of spring steel and then continuing on to the turn-signal lights. At this point, the current is so small that the lights won't even glow dimly.

After less than a second, the small piece of spring steel heats up enough that it expands and straightens out the larger, curved piece of spring steel. This forces the curved spring steel into the contact so that current flows to the signal lights unimpeded by the resistor. With almost no current passing through the resistor, the spring steel quickly cools, bending back away from the contact and breaking the circuit. The cycle then starts over. This happens at a rate of one to two times per second.