Right Directional Turns Off Headlights
#14
06-10-2011, 07:55 AM
well the battery disconnected shuts off power to the fuse block, the fuse is there so if a surge of sorts happens your fuse blows and doesnt ruin the electronic attached to it, with no power there is no point of fuse. it wont hold a charge like a capacitor will
#16
06-14-2011, 06:32 PM
**UPDATE**
The problem eventually turned into the regular combi switch fail that the DIY listed earlier is supposed to fix. It was still tied to my turn signals most of the time, but not every time the problem occurred which was weird.
Removing the airbomb was pretty straight forward, followed by taking the steering off with a T55 torx (thanks guys) I bought from Autozone for $4.99. I was going to disconnect the combi switch from the steering column, but the German engineers made the wire connector clips from another world!! They're such a pain to remove without losing skin on your fingers, fingernail pain, or breaking the clip that holds it on...so I decided to stop trying after 10 minutes to get two of them off (5 total).
One of the metal pieces in the typical problem had been pushed down. I pulled it out, scraped a little excess plastic out, snapped it back in, tested it several times, cleaned the connectors on the switch itself and reassembled in half the time it took to disassemble.
For anyone looking to do this, I'd rate it a 1.5/10 on difficulty; the hardest parts being to remember how the switch is put back together if you don't pay attention and getting the steering column cover to snap back into place.
The problem eventually turned into the regular combi switch fail that the DIY listed earlier is supposed to fix. It was still tied to my turn signals most of the time, but not every time the problem occurred which was weird.
Removing the airbomb was pretty straight forward, followed by taking the steering off with a T55 torx (thanks guys) I bought from Autozone for $4.99. I was going to disconnect the combi switch from the steering column, but the German engineers made the wire connector clips from another world!! They're such a pain to remove without losing skin on your fingers, fingernail pain, or breaking the clip that holds it on...so I decided to stop trying after 10 minutes to get two of them off (5 total).
One of the metal pieces in the typical problem had been pushed down. I pulled it out, scraped a little excess plastic out, snapped it back in, tested it several times, cleaned the connectors on the switch itself and reassembled in half the time it took to disassemble.
For anyone looking to do this, I'd rate it a 1.5/10 on difficulty; the hardest parts being to remember how the switch is put back together if you don't pay attention and getting the steering column cover to snap back into place.
#17
06-14-2011, 07:06 PM
combi switch is the first thing i thought of aswell, though agree the symptoms of a bad one are not the same.
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