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[Dan]

With the hazard switch removed the indicators won't work at all. They indicators and hazards are one system, why do so many people think they are independant? The hazard switch is the key to the whole system and as Taffy says it causes many problems.

I wish you'd said you had a '94 car earlier, people never put what car they are talking about. Mini changed a lot over 41 years and the late indicator system is different from the vast majority.

The line fuse runs all the flashing lights, the fuse box fuse only runs a relay in this system (not a flasher unit).

When I said...

Are any of the bulbs blown? They can blow dead short.

you didn't check the one that you know isn't working then? Have you checked the failed lamp at all? If the holder is broken, wet or dirty that will probably be causing your problem. Other than that it could be the flasher unit as you suspect but electronic ones like yours tend not to fail or it could be the hazard switch.

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[chrisg]

hi
had the hazard switch removed anyway and didnt have time to check the other bulb had to go to work. Ran it with no hazard switch in indicators worked for a mile or so then fuse went the bulb is fine must therfore be a contact problem?. if it was a flasher unit problem could it just affect one rear light not the others?

[Dan]

With the hazard switch removed it really should not work at all, there must be dark things going on in the wiring. It may have been bodged by someone in the past. Flasher failure can't affect just one lamp so you are probably right about a contact problem. This could be what's blowing the fuses if the lamp holder has broken. Have a good look inside the holder. There should be nothing connecting the outer part to the inner contact. Do the other lamps in the same cluster work?

[chrisg]

hey
got all the lights working now. just waiting on a new hazard switch hopefully this will be the end of it. but you never know

[chrisg]

hey
new hazard switch just been fitted in its taken a while still broken tho not sure what else to check now before giving up and sending it to be someone elses headache. going to check the flasher unit connections today and the interior light.

[chrisg]

fuse also seams to blow when the indicators are not on and with no additional eletrical things on. also even with the new hazard switch i still get a buzzing noise if the switch is held half way or switched slowly.?