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Hi Roland:
You helped me with a problem in the past, successfully...here's another for you. My Mom's boyfriend has a 1995 Chrysler Concorde. The battery in the car died, so we bought a new one and installed it. The neg terminal on the battery needed to be replaced, so I installed an aftermarket terminal and connected the two ground wires to it. After doing so, the car started and ran fine, but the turn signals and the four ways will not work. I checked the turn signal fuse and it had continuity. I cannot find the flasher, anywhere! The owner's manual is useless for this as well. Can you tell me where it might be located, and if there are any other possibilities causing the signals/four ways to not operate?
Thank you so much,
Don Hamilton
Bayville, New Jersey
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Hi Don,
The fuse that you checked was called F1 (20 amp) in the power distribution center under the hood, correct?
It provides power to the multi function switch on the left side of the steering column on a black/white wire and it should be hot all the time (because it needs to be powered for operation of the emergency flasher system). So you might also want to verify that voltage is on one clip of that fuse socket as proof that power should then be going thru the fuse and to the multi-function switch.
The flasher unit is under the dash, between the fuse box and the brake pedal and it is black and plugged into a receptacle located under the driver's side AC duct. The silencer panel at the bottom edge of the dash will likely have to be removed to see it.
I can also give you the continuity checks for the multifunction control switch if you would like to check that out before buying the flasher unit which is the other possibility for non-function.
Roland
Hi Roland!
No, I checked the fuse panel in the car by the driver's door, #3 I believe. I will check the underhood fuse. Since the one in the car had continuity, you are probably right about the underhood one.
You are THE MAN! I appreciate your help. As a fellow gearhead, I give advice to others when I can. I am grateful for your help. GO MOPAR!
Don
AnswerHi Don,
After those kind remarks I now am a little embarrassed! I just recognized the involvement of fuse #3 in the circuit after you pointed it out. The wiring diagram detail in my '94 factory service manual didn't actually show that fuse, just the wire that it fed. Now I realize that the F1 is only for the hazards, and underdash #3 is for the turn signals (that is why one is 20 and the other is 10 amp). Because they are independent power supplies to the combo flasher it must mean the flasher is no good because that is the only common element for both those functions. So anyhow, I believe now that you need a flasher if indeed you are getting 12v on the red/white wire when the ignition is in the run position, and 12v when you push in for the hazards with the ignition off, at that same wire which is found at the flasher socket. Sorry that I didn't notice the second power supply to the combined circuit. The manual surprisingly doesn't give a fuse usage chart so you have to read the diagrams to figure out which fuse does what, and the diagram didn't explicitly show the fuse.
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Roland
