Rough Rider
Husqvarna
AA Class
My left flicker flashes faster than the right one on the dash. The left flickers do not work; what's up?
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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
Flicker
- Thread starter Rough Rider
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Husqvarna
One or both your flicker bulbs has blown.
Pop off the covers gently with a small flat screw driver, remove the silly plastic reflector instert thingy without breaking it (its very flimsy), use a long nose pliers to twist out the halogen bulb (its quite tricky the first time - I destroyed the bulb completely trying to get it out, if you read your manual you wil get some instructions and photo's _ I only saw that last night).
Take old bulb to Midas, if its not completely mangled, and get another, its a 10W halogen so its quite pricey (R40 or so).
And reverse process. Took me the whole afternoon and lots of swearing to actually get it right because its very fiddly and I was trying to turn the bulbs the wrong way when trying to re-insert them - they need to be rotated counter clockwise to insert).
Pop off the covers gently with a small flat screw driver, remove the silly plastic reflector instert thingy without breaking it (its very flimsy), use a long nose pliers to twist out the halogen bulb (its quite tricky the first time - I destroyed the bulb completely trying to get it out, if you read your manual you wil get some instructions and photo's _ I only saw that last night).
Take old bulb to Midas, if its not completely mangled, and get another, its a 10W halogen so its quite pricey (R40 or so).
And reverse process. Took me the whole afternoon and lots of swearing to actually get it right because its very fiddly and I was trying to turn the bulbs the wrong way when trying to re-insert them - they need to be rotated counter clockwise to insert).
Rough Rider
Husqvarna
AA Class
Thanks AlanB I pulled both bulbs out, the rear which I did first came out in bits. The bulb I picked up at the agent here in CT was the wrong 12V/23W and I could not find 12V/10W anywhere, so I fitted two bulbs I bought at Builders Warehouse which did not specify the Watt rating and fitted those. Both turn signals work now but the left ones flash faster than the right, the reason, I assume, is that the wattage on the new bulbs is incorrect.