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ok, my car has been doing this for a while and its pushing me to breaking point

basically, the indicator noise comes on randomly (the actual indicators arent on, ive checked)

so just driving along, you get click click click ....... (nothing for a few minutes then) click click click

occaisionly i am seeing whisps of smoke out of the steering column

the indicators all still work fine, everything on the column does

I JUST CANT STAND THE NOISE ANYMORE

anyone know someone good with skyline auto electrics?

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Wouldn't the puff of smoke tend to indicate the indicator switch is stuffed or shorted???.. its in your steering column...

Pull it out (it pulls out), and buy another one. If it is stuffed the indicators wouldn't work.. From what I remember you'll have to take off the whole steering wheel to get in there.

Actually.. its probably just a short.. Only one way to fix that one.

You been playing with a boss kit lately?

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not lately, but i do have a nardi wheel

its weird, coz the indicators have always worked fine, even when the steering column is smoking;

its just the incessant clicking, always clicking, click click CLICK EVEN WHEN IM NOT IN THE CAR I HEAR THE CLICKING, I CAN HEAR IT NOW

ok, maybe its not that bad, but its getting there :cheers:

Its probably not your indicators if they are working OK.

Probably a relay of some sort in there for something else.

Clicking is the relay switching on and off and smoke is not good.

Has anything else stopped working, wipers rear wipers, hazard lights, alarm, high beam, check everything

I would be doing as mud has said, pull the covers off & go for a drive, oh & make sure u have a fire extinguisher in the car, if that relay sticks shut due to the short (melt the contacts together) you will have a fire...

Another way to do it is to pull the fuze for the wipers & go for a drive then do the same again with the horn fuze. I would not do the same for the indicators though. Process of Elimination...

oh & another thing becareful if the cars got a air bag if its some thing to do with the slip ring it can go off in your face all the bags need to be set off is a spark...

I know some people will say u can not set a air bag off with out being in a smash, wrong if u get a power supply to the detonator, bang bag deployed...

oh & another thing becareful if the cars got a air bag if its some thing to do with the slip ring it can go off in your face all the bags need to be set off is a spark...

I know some people will say u can not set a air bag off with out being in a smash, wrong if u get a power supply to the detonator, bang bag deployed...

he said he has a nardi wheel, doubt it would have an airbag. anyway... soldier on.

yer, no airbag

its a hard one to diagnose, as on any given day, it will be fine

then the next not

as for the smoke, its even rarer, only happens everynow and then (last time was driving down the coast to the bdo, and there was a fair bit of smoke)

ill test everything tonite to make sure everything is working, but it was all working last time i checked

I have had this about a year ago and fixed it by replacing the indicator stalk. (I know what you mean about it driving you craaazzzzy)

When I inspected the old one it had blackened areas where you could see tracking and arcing (it looks like a pretty complex switching arrangement).

El Bee

My indicators have also recently just started to click sometimes randomly but mostly only when i indicate right and the indicator is then turned off, it keeps clicking alot faster.

I've got a mate who's a auto electrican thats fixing mine.

Anyone interested in getting theirs fixed, let me know and he might do yours for you's as well.

mate, ive just sent you a pm;

lunchtime today there was a lot of smoke and a bad smell (as well as the clICK CLICK CLIKC CLICK CLICKC LICKC LCIK)

im gonna go get some quotes saturday morning from local auto electric places also;

bloody money pits!

i had this problem, fixed it by changing whole indicator and light switchs. Got the part from a wrecker for arounf $100, easy to do, take off steering wheel, few screws, unhook some wires, change over then put it all back together and your done. I looked fixing mine to sell but its just all metal slides etc, wouldnt know where to start!

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