Every few years, the turn signals on my wife's '86 240DL Volvo just stop
working, so I have to remove the plastic panels from around the steering
wheel and spray electronic contact cleaner in the switch and move it
back and forth. It does the trick for a few years. I think it's been a
few years since I did it last, so I'm sure I'll hear something soon. On
our 300Ds/240s the flasher switch controls the turn signals, and it also
usually caused by dirty contacts.
I'm still enjoying my repaired driver's seat.
Rob
'85 300D
Garden Grove, CA
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On 9/21/12 4:52 AM, diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Off Topic - sort of
> Posted by: "Alan Boucher"alstheone@verizon.net alstheone2002
> Date: Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:51 pm ((PDT))
>
> We were accompanied to a Lancia meet by another Lancia owner who is
> afflicted with a variety of Rovers from a Range Rover on back. Our 83
> 300SD was performing well as expected. All I heard from the back seat was
> admiration that it didn't clunk when downshifting and questions several
> times if I wasn't worried about it overheating. Of course we weren't
> worried,we felt good about the car and realized what it meant to own a
> Rover. That was last week. Today I noticed the directionals weren't
> working and opened the hood to check the fuses. At that point one of the
> hood hinge bolts sheared and almost caused one end of the hood to go
> through the windshield. I had been through a hood hinge change on a 300D
> and wasn't looking forward to the surgery involved. Luckily when they did
> the 300SD, they redesigned the mounting so that the bolts can be reached by
> pulling the inner fender liner and dropping the vacuum tank. I still have
> to fab a new pivot and weld it in place but at least getting the hinge out
> was relatively painless. The fuses were good so I'll have to check the
> flasher and possibly the warning light and directional switches. Any
> suggestions? In any event that's what I get for being a little too smug
> about the car.
>
>
>
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