01txr Member 861 Member For: 18y 1m 17d Gender: Male Location: QLD Posted 17/04/14 09:48 AM Author Share Posted 17/04/14 09:48 AM Ok apparently the flasher unit is built into cluster. How stupid is that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 11y 3m 11d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 17/04/14 12:54 PM Share Posted 17/04/14 12:54 PM I meant one of those silly earth straps that hang of the rear of the car to stop your dog getting car sick(wtf??). I have my reservations about them.And I'm not sure why you think your flasher unit is controlling your throttle body? Have you been able to scan it for any codes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01txr Member 861 Member For: 18y 1m 17d Gender: Male Location: QLD Posted 17/04/14 01:36 PM Author Share Posted 17/04/14 01:36 PM Reason being why I'm thinking the flasher unit is involved is because everything is flashing and on off like as if its running through a flasher unit. Eg. Leave key on position and all cabin lights 2 rear, 2 footwell and cabin light since bulb replaced is flashing. Plus the throttle body drive by wire is clucking on off. Turn light switch to auto and the amp starts clicking, now that's weird as I've never heard a amp click. It is amp as I disconnected it and it stopped clicking. Then push the door lock on key fob and the indicator lights on dash flash but very dim and indicators are not lighting. To only way to stop the cluster indicator lights from flashing is to turn headlights on then off. It seems rediculess to be flasher unit but it was a thought due to the sh*t it's doing. Car will not lock either. Yet the boot release works perfectly with key fob and dash button as well the fuel flap release with dash button. These are the two only things that seem unaffected and working fine. Also the cabin lights go from dim to flashing to bright in sync with cluster lighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01txr Member 861 Member For: 18y 1m 17d Gender: Male Location: QLD Posted 18/04/14 01:15 AM Author Share Posted 18/04/14 01:15 AM Update. Changed engine earth strap and fitted my near new starter from my xr6t. Still no change. However after doing earth strap I got the door locks to work a few times then back to usual. Next to remove the fuse box and check the earth circuit. Or buy 2 leads to run from battery neg terminal to body and engine. Or get one of those car earthing kits with numerous earths. All seems to much as the dam thing should be fine with what it was engineered with. As it was prior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 4m 4d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 18/04/14 01:42 AM Share Posted 18/04/14 01:42 AM Maybe you have a bad earth or short at one of the indicators 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 11y 3m 11d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/04/14 02:18 AM Share Posted 18/04/14 02:18 AM Yep, flasher units will flash quickly with not enough load and slowly with to much, incorrect bulbs or a short can cause this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,331 Member For: 19y 5m 8d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 18/04/14 02:38 AM Share Posted 18/04/14 02:38 AM I still maintain they are all functions of the BEM that are acting erratically due to a poor battery.As Aaron said above, put a volt meter on the battery and try and crank the car.If you had a short large enough to draw all the starting current from the battery you would have had a fire by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 11y 3m 11d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/04/14 03:07 AM Share Posted 18/04/14 03:07 AM That is true Ralph but it doesn't have to be a dead short, I believe this is the 2nd battery he has had whilst trying to rectify the problem. Could be draining slowly over time which intern makes everything play up like you say.+2 on checking the battery voltage under different load conditions though. They can often meter at 13v ish then the ass just falls out of them as soon as you crank or even just turn the lights on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuckSqueezeBangBlow ʎǝʞuoɯ ɹoıuǝs Donating Members 1,808 Member For: 16y 2m 15d Gender: Male Posted 18/04/14 04:59 AM Share Posted 18/04/14 04:59 AM (edited) Check the headlight switch stalk wiring they can cause all sorts of dramas. The stalk cover pulls apart and you can see the dodgy wiring Edited 18/04/14 05:00 AM by SuckSqueezeBangBlow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01txr Member 861 Member For: 18y 1m 17d Gender: Male Location: QLD Posted 18/04/14 09:53 AM Author Share Posted 18/04/14 09:53 AM The battery is not going flat. But I will check voltage drop tomorrow. As stated also had a 2nd battery plus jump to a 4wd drive battery plus another car. Heard about the indicator stalk wiring. That may be a possibility as maybe if the indicator power wires are shorting it would probably cause the dramas but why has it not shorted the indicator fuse?I'll check it anyway as that was the first sign of weird sh*t with the flicking of low to high making all the cluster lights light up while flicking the stalk. Didn't think much more of it as it stopped doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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