turn signals not blinking, has anyone else experienced this Options

[celicamike]

OK, so last night, I parked my '94 GT for just a few minutes while I was dropping off some stuff, and I put my hazard lights on while I went inside. Anyway when I came back, my hazard lights weren't flashing, they were just on continuously. So I got back in my car and shut my hazard lights off, but when I drove home, my turn signals wouldn't flash, they would just stay on like they did before. Does anyone know what might be causing this? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks

[BloodyStupidDave...]

OK, so last night, I parked my '94 GT for just a few minutes while I was dropping off some stuff, and I put my hazard lights on while I went inside. Anyway when I came back, my hazard lights weren't flashing, they were just on continuously. So I got back in my car and shut my hazard lights off, but when I drove home, my turn signals wouldn't flash, they would just stay on like they did before. Does anyone know what might be causing this? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks

Sounds like your flasher relay has gone. It is in the driver's side kick panel and looks pretty much like a regular relay.

Check the brightness of you indicator lights. If they look dimmer than usual, it might eb something as simple as a bad earth.

Or it could be simply that the little plate inside the relay has got stuck in one position. Once you have removed the relay, you should be able to pop the top off. Inside you see a bimetallic strip that is attached to one contact and sits on another.

A bimetallic strip is just that - two metals with very different expansion/contraction properties that are welded together. When they get hot one side expands more than the other causing it to bend one way touch one contact; and when it cools the opposite happens causing it to bend in the other direction and touch the other contact. It is the current running across the bimetal strip that causes it to heat and thus produces the intermittent flashing effect with which we are familiar.