turn signal sounder

I have a 2004 M5 mazdaspeed. The car is great except that the steering wheel hides the turn indicators from my line of sight. Also, the turn indicator sound is so low that I can not hear it with the top down.

Does anyone know of an indicator light or sounder that I can mount onto this car so that I do not drive for 5 or 6 miles or more with the turn indicator on?

Reply to
rchrdprss
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Sorry I have no suggestions for you but I love you just for asking. That whole drive forever with your blinker on makes me crazy. :-)

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Carol

How about adding another light? A sounder loud enough to hear at speed is going to be deafening in a quiet area late at night.

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Invisible Man

I was thinking of both. The wiring is the same. It is just a matter of adding a switch and deciding where top place the lamp (or LED).

I still need the wiring diagram and color code. Tracing it out with a meter is an option but I want to save that work. After all, laying on ones back under the dashboard in this car for this work is gonna hurt?

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Chuck

It's probably the exact same for 99~05 Miatas, if that helps you any. Actually, I think I have it in my 'workshop manual'. Let me try scanning it and sending it directly to you. I'm thinking this is the right page, it's called "turn and hazard warning lights'

I'll give it a go, Chris

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The driving forever with the signal lights on makes me feel as if I am

70 years old living in Forida?. I am not. As soon as I find a wiring diagram with the color code for the signal flasher, I will add a LOUD sounder to the car such as in:
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Does any body have a wiring diagram for a 2004 MX5 mazdaspeed miata?

RP

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Chris D'Agnolo

replying to Chris D'Agnolo, egore wrote: I'm over seventy, I do happen to live in Florida and I have the same problem. I can't hear the turn signal flasher in my 2006 Tacoma. I used to drive around with my turn signal flashing all the time. because I'm short and the steering wheel blocks my view of the turn signal lights on the dashboard. I only knew the signal was flashing when my girlfriend was in the truck to complain about it. It's not that we old geezers have all gone senile, or completely deaf, this problem happens because men gradually lose the ability to hear high frequency sounds as we age, so the clicking sound (which is a high frequency) eventually becomes inaudible. My hearing is fine for other sounds, so I don't want to buy an expensive hearing aid just to hear the turn signal. I was never able to locate the device that makes the clicking sound in my truck, because it's not shown in the owner's manual. Youtube videos show how to replace the flasher relay under the hood, but that's not what people hear. The device people hear is hidden somewhere under the dashboard and at my age I have no desire to try and squeeze under the dash to try and find it. The other thing I don't want to do is modify the wiring in my truck. So, I came up with a bright idea. It was easy to find the flasher fuse in the fuse box under the hood, because it's clearly labeled on the inside cover of the fuse box. I'm a retired aerospace engineer, so it was simple for me to design a little electronic gizmo that would plug directly into the fuse socket and detect when current is passing through the flasher fuse. When, the device detects current going to the turn signal lights it sends a radio signal to a box in the truck cab which makes a sound I can hear. To keep it cheap, I hacked into a wireless doorbell button and put that in the fuse box to send the signal. The box that makes the sound in the truck cab is a battery operated wireless doorbell receiver, which is small enough to slide under the driver's seat. The doorbell receiver plays a tune that's plenty loud for me to hear when the turn signals are flashing (after all, it is a doorbell). The doorbell I used has multiple melodies, so I selected the national anthem and that's what I hear when the turn signal is flashing. If enough people are interested in this device, then I will build some of them and sell them for the cost of the parts plus ten bucks. Unfortunately, it's not worth my time to make just one or two of these units, I need to know that five to ten people want one. As for the installation, if you can replace a fuse and shove something under the drivers seat, then you can install this thing in any car or truck in minutes. No knowledge of electricity is required and no permanent changes are made to your vehicle wiring. And it's portable, If you buy a new car, then just unplug it and move it to the new vehicle. If you want one of these, then you can contact me through a website where I sell a different one of my inventions . My website is

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egore

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