I spotted a thread here last week by another frustrated C5 owner, describing a great way to solve the dreaded intermittent turn signal failure. He had found a bypass harness sold by Corvette Enhancements, AKA Wing Waxers, and gave their number. I called and decided to give it a try. It's an elegant and low cost solution. Installs in with only a #15 torx, 4 srews, completely eliminating the turn signal circuit thru the emrgency flasher switch that GM so foolishly located above all the radio and AC gear. Replacing that piece of GM low bidder junk means complete disassembly of the console and dash, removal of the radio. And a new switch at $40 will fail again. The bypass worked on the first try at only $60 delivered with only 15 minutes labor. So I have to give them a shout out, and recommend them for this simple, inexpensive solution. Good thinking! They are at 800-946-4929, or e-mail wingwaxers@earthlink.net.

PS I will miss smacking the top of the dash, but not that much.

 

excellent. I'm gonna check it out. I am tired of having to use the karate chop to fix everything electrical on my car.

 

Good to hear. Awesome customer service from Richard

Chuck

 

Well, I have led tailights so I have the hyperflash harness your talking about already installed in my car from richard at corvette enhancements.None the less, my brake lights are intermittent and I have to smack the top of the dash to get them to work.I dont think the new harness eliminates the emergency flasher at all since it still works as desighned.

 

I have one coming for the LED ts and running lights I ordered, and while I dont have any ts problems, its good to know I wont ever be having them

 

Great, another problem I can look forward to having...

 

Richard has some excellent products and is a pleasure to deal with. Good deal that you were able to fix the problem so easy.

 

I SMACK am SMACK calling SMACK them SMACK Monday SMACK SMACK

 

Karate chop.

That was good for a chuckle.

Chris

 

I will call Richard on Monday. Let's see if a person with NO mechanical skills can do the install !!

 

Thanks for the info.....I'm currently have the turn signal issue and was not looking fwd to the replacement.I'll be looking into this real soon

 

Same deal with my 2000 coupe. Now if i use this bypass will i still have hazzards? What is the issue with the signals anyway? Something wrong with the hazzard/signal wiring? I was going to take mine to the dealer to see if they could figure it out. I have added a guage pod and such so i figured they would say i messed something up with wiring that up. Thanks Ted

 

Like I said previously in this thread, I have the hyperflash harness installed because of my led tailights and I still have a brake light problem. The brake lights dont work unless I smack the top of the dash.It apparantly doesnt work with intermittent brake lights.Any ideas out there??

 

I answered my own question with a little detective work. First I replaced the emergency flasher .Brakes lights still flicker when hitting the dash. Pulled the dash apart and found if I fondled the hyperflash harness I installed from Corvette enhancements they would stay on then flicker,on, flicker.Found the problem. 3 of the wires were not properly crimped into the connectors!! I have a new spare hyperflash harness so I installed it and problem fixed. I'm not going to bash richard at corvette enhancements, I know he will stand behing his products.Just want to let everyone know that this can happen!! Caused me allot of grief but luckily no accidents!!

 

Let me tell you how great Richards harness works. I ordered one a few weeks ago to fix my chronic turn signal issues. The next day my turn signals started working and have worked fine ever since. Richards harness arrived the following Monday.
I didn't even have to bother installing it and it fixed my problem. I just keep the unopened UPS box in the back.

 

Dang, I wish I would have thought of that! Did you post that fix immediately or did you let us all suffer untill now!!

 

I proposed this fix in another thread last May (#12); glad to hear it works.

"Just a thought, I'm putting some LEDs in my front corners and ordered the special flasher shown in the link below. It installs in 15 minutes according to the instructions and bypasses the stock flasher. I was told it would still work if I was running a mix of LED and incandescent bulbs. Maybe just putting one of these in and leaving the stock flasher in place would be an easy fix? I would pay the $49.95 to avoid replacing the stocker flasher if I knew this would work. Another alternative, use the harness from the kit and put a stock flasher in the new location - would this work?"

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1952915

 

Recieved my new front corner lenses, led ts and running lights, and bypass flasher.

New lenses install, left front, about an hour (lotta standing around and staring, took out a few screws I didnt need to) right front, about ten minutes Look great.

Flasher bypass install, really does take ten minutes, and all you need is a t-15 driver and a small flat blade screwdriver, completely plug and play.

LED bulbs, without flasher bypass (did the lenses and bulbs first) worked perfectly. After putting in the bypass, left front switchbacks wouldnt light in white (drl) and right ts was flickering. Pulled bypass plug and reseated (stopped flickering on right). Pulled left switchback led bulb and turned it around and reseated, worked fine (it worked the way I had it in there before I put the bypass flasher in).

Very easey mod, all you need is a 7mm socket (to remove the screws holding the access panel under the front end to get to the two screws that hold the lenses in) one of which is a 7mm the other is a 10mm. And as stated earlier, a t-15 for the dash panel (four screws) and a small flatblade to pop the foglight/trunk release switch out when removing the underdash piece). Lifting the front of the car makes getting under there a lot easier, but in a pinch, you could probably get it done without lifting it on a stock hieght car (as long as you can squeeze your head under the bumper ).

All in all, very doable with littel/no mech skill required, and great results, for anyone who is on the fench about doing this.

 

Interesting, I got my harness a few weeks ago and it would not even connect to the factory plug on one end. Turned out that there were at least two terminals inside one of the new harness plugs that were not crimped right and blocked the factory harness plug male connectors from inserting. I was finally able to deform them enough with a mini screwdriver to get the connector to engage - has been working so far, but I know it may not hold.

 

I had the same problem with the connector; it was not exactly the same as the stock one. I used serious force with a small C-clamp to engage them. Has been working fine for about two months, but I was not impressed with the supposed "plug and play".