OK, yes, there's that; roughly 70 to 100 years ago.
GM was once world class, then merely competent, then pathetic, now patsies of the administration and whatever this week's policies might be.
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Hook it up to the horn. Only jokeing.
Tegger wrote "I suppose it's possible the OP doesn't know this, in which ca se my sarcastic reply may have been out of line.
If the OP will *VERY GENTLY AND SLOWLY* press down (or lift up) on the sign al lever, he will find that the signal will begin blinking BEFORE the lever clicks into a different position from its rest position. If the OP then stops pushing on the lever, it will automatically pop back to its rest position and the signal will turn off. What he has just done is invoke what "
I am fully aware Tegger of that function. My point is I never had audiblit y or cancellation issues with the turn signals on my 1981 GM car. TICK-TIC K, TICK-TICK, those bastards woke the dead! Heh heh, and they cancelled ev en from a shallow lane change, no problems.
But today's clients are more demanding: They don't want the directionals t o drown out their $4,000 sound system.
And then there's cost: My old Buick had 4-5 "detents" in the steering whee l(after which you recenter the wheel the blinkers shut off). Now the blin kers don't cancel after anything less than a 100degree left or right turn!
SMH 21st century can't mfg a turn signal worth a lick, but they got phones you can control your whole house with from a cruise ship on the other side of the Earth!
Selling the car to the appreciative buyer. I hate even the quieter of the loud blinkers with passion.
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Sissy baby, the woud bwinkers hurt your wittle ears? Poor baby!
It's about SAFETY! About not leaving a blinker on like I see too often on our roads and highways.
You don't like loud turn signal indicators? Don't drive.
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
while I agree with you, it really is about paying attenction to your driving, If your leaving your blinker on a lot, it is because you are not attentive enough about what you are doing. (My Semi has a louder blinker, but I don`t know about any aftermarket loud ones for the auto market, at least the newer ones with the electronic flashers) KB
It simply means you aren't looking at your gauge cluster enough.
Like Kevin said it's about paying attention.
I had a '89 Cutlas cierra that if you left the blinkers on for more than 1/8 mile a loud chime would start up. Only car I've owned with that feature.
money2noise wrote "Blinkers? Where I come from they are a waste of an accessory as no one uses them!
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Where you come from? A police dept? LOLOLOL!
The electronics are easy, get a small 12 volt beeper and connect it to the output of the flasher. For those who really don't notice the piezos off a "screamin meenie" alarm clock should work.....
m6onz5a wrote "It simply means you aren't looking at your gauge cluster enough.
Like Kevin said it's about paying attention. "
Yeah, paying attention where it counts - out the windshield and side mirrors.
No excuses: Make directionals that are audible and cancel coming back from a quarter-turn of the wheel, like Detroit used to! ;)
I agree, on both points. My attention is directed out the windows and to the mirrors, and I check the gauges more frequently than most apparently but only when I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the windshield or mirrors that will need attention for a second or two.
Also, one doesn't give much thought to the turn signal mechanism until one has a car with a completely defective one. I hated the turn signals on my old F*rd pickemup truck as they'd self-cancel if you looked at them funny (and it was one of those horrible multi-function stalks to boot, and as a final insult was wobbly and tenuous feeling.) Odd that my '55 Studebaker had a completely inoffensive and properly functional turn signal mechanism and yet 40 years later Ford had apparently lost all of their reference material on turn signal function and ergonomics. Fortunately both of my current vehicles have gone back to "inoffensive" status, although one (surprisingly, for a German car) has the gauge panel laid out so that for a person of my height and proportions when the seat and steering wheel are adjusted for a proper driving position, the turn signal telltales are obscured by the upper rim of the steering wheel...!
To the OP; could you rig something with a couple diodes to the front turn signal circuits (or the telltales in the dash which should be the same thing) and then install a standard mini or micro relay under the dash doing nothing other than clicking, or perhaps some kind of inoffensive 12V chime or other noisemaker?
nate
Sad but true!
To be fair, turn signal use among the general public is only slightly higher...
nate
Replace chimes with something like a cell phone vibrator built into the steering wheel. Like a stick shaker on an airplane.
Paul Hovnanian wrote "Replace chimes with something like a cell phone vibrator built into the steering wheel. Like a stick shaker on an airplane. "
Don't overcomplicate things man! And all turn signals I've heard "tick" - not chime. Seatbelt warnings and open doors chime.
I can't believe folks have gotten so soft they get offended by a ticking BLINKER...
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