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Mystery red light fitted in switch panel

Hi all, As the subject says, I have a red light fitted in the switch panel to the left of the steering wheel (right hand drive) in my newly acquired '91 745 GL with auto gearbox. It is next to the "alarm armed" led you usually get. It flashes very briefly only when I do a fast turn round a roundabout, ie. a right turn. Never comes on when I turn left. I have checked all fluids etc to make sure it is not low on something like gearbox fluid, coolant etc. Anyone have any idea what it could be? There is a Sparkrite alarm fitted to the car which works, but the light does not flash with this that I can see. When I arm the alarm, only one side of the indicator lights flash (left side), which might indicate a break in the alarm wiring somewhere, but I don't think it correlates to the red light on the switch panel. Again, if anyone has any ideas, I would be most grateful, otherwise I have a long journey from the light, down through the wiring behind the dashboard to find where it ends.

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Stuart Gray
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You mean the light is among the switches for clock adjustment, fog lights and stuff? Not among the rest of lights inside the instrumentation box?

Never seen a light there on our '92.

Obviuosly you are in a country with left hand driving. Which one? Might help (not me though). Cars on differents markets have slight variations.

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Gunnar Eikman

It's probably not this (it flashing whilst cornering has me puzzled) but:

If you have (or had) a towbar fitted you should also have a trailer indicator monitor, to tell you that the trailer indicators are flashing. On one of my old 240s this took the form of a red light mounted into one of the switch blanks on the dashboard.

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Stewart Hargrav

You may be onto something there Stewart. The car has a towbar, which I haven't used yet. I will when I get my trailer out from behind my soon to be scrapped old 740. I would imagine the flash could be caused by a short in the wiring to the towbar. It's certainly a possibility. Thanks for that, it never even occurred to me it could be something like that, my old 240 had something similar with a beep noise for the trailer indicators, the old 740 had nothing. Can't wait to try it out. Cheers !!!!!!!

Stuart.

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Stuart Gray

Stewart Hargrave, you were right on the money!!!! I drove my old C reg 740 to the scrapyard today (pauses for a minutes silence in honour of the old girl who gave me 320,000 of her life before succumbing to rust) This meant I could get my trailer attached to the new girl and the light lit with the indicators. Now to find the short..... Many thanks Stewart,

Stuart :)

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Stuart Gray

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