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FWIW,
"Left Turn Signal Failure" message has popped up a few times in the past but the turn signal worked fine (ok...no problem there). Recently, it popped up and the left front turn signal was out (and the flasher doubled in speed on the interior indicator light suggesting elevated voltage in the line running to flasher from the left bulb not drawing any current). I think this would be consistent with a burned out bulb so I was waiting to get a replacement when last night I booted up the car and, low and behold, the usual turn signal error on boot did not occur and the turn signal worked fine. Drove for 15 minutes or so and the error occurred while driving and the flasher light went out, flashing double etc again. At least this eliminates the bulb as the source of the problem. BTW, bulb looks fine through the glass (filament in place etc).
Giggled wires and visually inspected but see no obvious problem. I thank the brain surgeon at SAAB who designed the "access" to the turn signal bulbs up front (JUST tight enough to be near impossible to turn bulb housing with hand and VERY painful to try). Of course, this feature was carried over from the C900 which left my hands red and raw after a similarly frustrating attempt at bulb replacement. The irony there was that the C900 had so much extra room under the hood that it seemed rediculous to make it so tight.
Anyway, I saw one post on this that indicated the DLR had to replace the front wiring harness. I'm not really looking forward to ANYONE messing with the electronics. No other strange electrical gremlins have occured in the first 23,000 (except a few erroneous headlight failure messages).
Anyone else have similar experience w/turn signals?
Thanks
Pat
'07 2.0T SS
'87 900T (RIP)
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