turn signals work...sometimes
 

hi. 01 z. Has 45k miles.

Basicaly what happens is when i go to use a turn signal nothing happens. I wait a few min and it randomly starts working again. last night I was parked on a curb waiting for somone and had my flashers on. They would go on and off then nothing. They would stop working, then a few min later all the sudden kick back on. Its rather annoying. Thought I should replace the turn signal stalk but it looks like its something that has to do with the complete system.

Thought it might be a ground so I may just check that b/c this is my 3rd C5.:willy:

thanks in advance for any help. CF has gotten me out of quite a few jams.

Maybe this:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-t...l-problem.html

9 times out of 10 the cause is a bad hazard light switch.

I agree chances it is the hazard switch. The hazard bypass harness is cheap enough and easy enough to install.

awesome! Thanks guys. I'll give that harness a shot and see what happens. I'll also try "massaging" my hazzard switch. Sucks that this happened probably 45 minutes after i bought the car. everything worked fine and on the drive home all the sudden this stopped working. I was hoping it wouldn't be a $500 + fix. As they say used cars are "as is".


anyone have a link to one of these harnesses. I believe someone in the thread posted above mentioned Corvette Enhancements. Couldn't find em on the left. I'll give it a search and see what happens.

Here you go http://www.corvette-enhancements.com/c5_flasher_fix.php

It's easy to fix yourself

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/1569256474-post50.html

Peter

Just replace the hazard flasher. I just did mine and it cost
$39.40 at the Chevy house. Took me about 45 minutes. If you can get the shift knob off the rest is a snap and no wire around harness. Works now like it should.
Easy to do and thanks to the suys who posted the how to!

:iagree:

thanks for the links guys. Bookmarked em both. I will probably just replace the housing next time I have the console apart. I'll probably buy the part now and just wait to do it next time im in there.

Our '02 did the same thing. A tip i got here a while back said to "massage" the hazard switch 30 times. Didn't help much. Someone else told me 100 times, so far works Great.

I did the bypass......figured replacing to original switch would only give me another original switch to eventually go bad.

I found the hazard end of my center vent was broken and I couldn't push in on it to get it out without completely breaking it so I could either bypass or pull the whole dash. Since I was going LED's anyways to avoid melting my new front corner lights, the bypass was the obvious choice.

Check yours out. Look down from the top right above the main bulb there is a round hole in the black plastic bracket that goes over the corner light. The housing often melts through there. LED's take care of that problem.

Peter

Will do thanks guys. I do plan on dong LED's anyways so the harness wouldnt be a waste of money at all.

i have a strange thing to add to this thread and i dont knwo if anyone else has noticed but if the turn signals dont work, niether does the rear defroster. I live in a very moist place and have teh rear defroster on all the time. if my rear window doesnt de-fog thats how i know my signals dont work before i have even had a chance to try them