Indicator noice on a 306

Jul 24, 2003 10 Replies
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I am sure this is an easy question but anyway..



Sometimes when driving my N reg 306 there is a noise that sounds like the indicator is on, but it doesnt not appear to be (I cant really stick my head out the window and look, but the lights on the console don't light up) so any idea whats wrong and how serious it is?



I am guessing that whatever controls the timing of the indicators is lose and so sometimes it activates by itself, but the lights dont come on as they need the indicator stalk to be in a certain position to work?



I look forward to your comments



Dave


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I'm not sure about the 306, but on the 406 the noise is generated by a seperate speaker. Therefore if this is the case in the 306, then it is entirely possible for an electrical gremlin to trigger off the sound circuit without triggering the acutal indicator

Luke

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Luke Wells unleashed:

an interesting idea.. i will try to investigate.. thanks Luke

Dave

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I just had a problem with the stalk itself - The internal contacts were ground down and metal chips were all over the contacts, so they shortened the switch! Cleaning and changing the contacts (signal lights high/low beam :-) ) helped.

The sound is generated by the relay directly.

Tobi

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I had exactly the same problem here. I think it is quite common.

Shaun

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Yep, same here with my 1994 306 1.9 XLD. I get it very often. Can't be bothered to fix it. Just waggle the imdicator or indicate quickly and it stops.

Sim> >

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Yep, i had the same on my old 306 DT, a waggle usually fixed it.

S
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Mine started to smoke so I thought that more than a waggle was called for. :-)

Shaun

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Not a big job, just take it off, open it and clean it.

Tobi

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Same here :-) Happened to my Mom who drove at that time and she was kinda shocked...

Tobi

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After air whittling and then hitching up their pants, Tobias Meyer muttered into alt.autos.peugeot:

nice one.. thanks for all the help guys!

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