headlights no longer work and blinkers blink super fast

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86rxturbo
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headlights no longer work and blinkers blink super fast

Post by 86rxturbo » Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:51 pm

just finished my ej conversion and now my head lights don't work.
i have parkers but my blinkers go balistic, sounds like a grounding problem or something to me.
can anybody tell me where to start looking has me puzled because they work ed after the conversion but now they don't?? :roll:

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Re: headlights no longer work and blinkers blink super fast

Post by fredsub » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:13 pm

86rxturbo wrote: i have parkers but my blinkers go balistic, sounds like a grounding problem or something to me.
you guessed correctly, its a ground wire gone open, so the circuit goes via the parkers, bet its blinking in opposite sync to the other one :)

externally the wire may look visible ok, so what I did was feel it by bending it ,to find where it seems to be broken.

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Post by 86rxturbo » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:32 pm

excelent thanks for that now hopefully i can drive at night :D
yeah my blinkers are different one is ballistic and the other a bit faster than normal
where was the ground that was broken in your case which would you recomend checking first if any

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