louiseanddanny 10.5 @ 132MPH Donating Members 477 Member For: 16y 9m 11d Gender: Male Location: FALCON COUNTRY Posted 11/12/11 05:39 AM Share Posted 11/12/11 05:39 AM Hi people's! whilst taking my wife(Louise) to her christmas party to the city on Saturday, I was cruising towards the F5 and thought to turn the lights low beam on and noticed then that the instrument cluster usually would have the blue light and my boost gauge would be blue also! I had nothing!, Thought immediately sh*t hopefully I can correct it by replacing a fuse or something and be ok to drive at night and just replace it when I drop the misses off and park it at a local servo. So im just about to get to the airport tunnels on the F5 and give the lights ago again,flick through and still nothing then turn it to AUTO and my lights turn on. Why would they work there and not switched to the appropriate function? Iv'e checked all my fuses and all are good at the servo so I need some fellow forum electricians help here! what should I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wenier Donating Members 1,736 Member For: 14y 9m 18d Gender: Male Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Posted 11/12/11 07:09 AM Share Posted 11/12/11 07:09 AM Its pretty common for the wiring right up at the stalk to break so it may only work in say auto and not the normal modes or even the opposite way round to that. You will have to pull the steering column cover off and check the wires out. Also search the forums its on here somewhere with pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiseanddanny 10.5 @ 132MPH Donating Members 477 Member For: 16y 9m 11d Gender: Male Location: FALCON COUNTRY Posted 11/12/11 08:36 AM Author Share Posted 11/12/11 08:36 AM Thanks Wenier! Did some searching and found M_crisp has the same problem hopefully I can find the link for the right up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wenier Donating Members 1,736 Member For: 14y 9m 18d Gender: Male Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Posted 11/12/11 09:56 AM Share Posted 11/12/11 09:56 AM This might help you a little, similar kind of issue if it turns out to be the wiring in stalk. Theres a pic near the end. http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/75503-instrument-lights-dropping-out-when-using-indicators/page__p__1117569__hl__lights%20wiring__fromsearch__1#entry1117569 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiseanddanny 10.5 @ 132MPH Donating Members 477 Member For: 16y 9m 11d Gender: Male Location: FALCON COUNTRY Posted 12/12/11 03:59 AM Author Share Posted 12/12/11 03:59 AM Thanks Wenier for your help! CMS have help fix the issue with my lights it was the barrel of the light/blinker assembly. They had to take the whole steering wheel off to get to the housing and found the yellow wire near the barrel of the keystart had been completely cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiseanddanny 10.5 @ 132MPH Donating Members 477 Member For: 16y 9m 11d Gender: Male Location: FALCON COUNTRY Posted 12/12/11 04:07 AM Author Share Posted 12/12/11 04:07 AM Ok im putting up some photo's to help other people, it really wasn't hard to fix! just some more wire and soldering required with some heavy heat shrink to wrap up and protect it from happening again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wenier Donating Members 1,736 Member For: 14y 9m 18d Gender: Male Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Posted 12/12/11 05:16 AM Share Posted 12/12/11 05:16 AM Yea, that's the exact issue I thought it was, something about ford making the wiring a bit short and everytime you use the indicator it works 1 wire on the sharp bit till oneday it lets go.Glad you got it fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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