What's your biggest, best, funniest most bone-headed move related to your car?
Original poster here: May just go ahead and one-up myself with this new anecdote.
So my Cuda started doing a super rapid turn signal blink something like 5 years ago, maybe more. At the time, I dug into the forums and went through all the usual suspects. Bulbs, flasher, ground wires, corroded sockets, etc. No luck. I remember talking about the problem with guys at a Mopar show, and there was a suggestion about doing some type of new master ground wire from the battery through the firewall to the ignition switch, or something that sounded like a bit much.
Anyway, my co-owner and I just lived with the rapid blink, thinking maybe we'd give it another go sometime down the road. So this year before getting the car out of storage I started thinking this would be the year. Dug back into the forums, and then started noticing references to the fact that there are two flashers, one for hazards and another for the turn signals. I started piecing my memory together and realized I knew for sure I'd replaced the flasher by the emergency brake... but I didn't have any recollection of changing a 2nd flasher by the ash tray.
Today topping 70 in Minnesota, I pulled the Cuda out of storage. Once home, I reached up under the ash tray and sure enough, there was the turn signal flasher, with a big dent in it. I pulled out the (newish) hazard flasher and put it in the turn signal slot. Bingo -- normal blink rate. So off to NAPA for a $5 flasher and we're good to go with turns and hazards.
Pretty stupid to live with rapid blink for so many years when the solution was $5 and five minutes away.
(Photo is the bashed old flasher)
Original poster here: May just go ahead and one-up myself with this new anecdote.
So my Cuda started doing a super rapid turn signal blink something like 5 years ago, maybe more. At the time, I dug into the forums and went through all the usual suspects. Bulbs, flasher, ground wires, corroded sockets, etc. No luck. I remember talking about the problem with guys at a Mopar show, and there was a suggestion about doing some type of new master ground wire from the battery through the firewall to the ignition switch, or something that sounded like a bit much.
Anyway, my co-owner and I just lived with the rapid blink, thinking maybe we'd give it another go sometime down the road. So this year before getting the car out of storage I started thinking this would be the year. Dug back into the forums, and then started noticing references to the fact that there are two flashers, one for hazards and another for the turn signals. I started piecing my memory together and realized I knew for sure I'd replaced the flasher by the emergency brake... but I didn't have any recollection of changing a 2nd flasher by the ash tray.
Today topping 70 in Minnesota, I pulled the Cuda out of storage. Once home, I reached up under the ash tray and sure enough, there was the turn signal flasher, with a big dent in it. I pulled out the (newish) hazard flasher and put it in the turn signal slot. Bingo -- normal blink rate. So off to NAPA for a $5 flasher and we're good to go with turns and hazards.
Pretty stupid to live with rapid blink for so many years when the solution was $5 and five minutes away.
(Photo is the bashed old flasher)