QuestionI have a 97 Plymouth Grand Voyager, 3.3l, 4 speed, PW,PL,AC,Cruise. I have 3 issues I would like advice on.
1. The left signal stops working every now and then, changing the combination switch has not stopped it, we can get the signal to work by turning on the 4 ways while the left signal is activated, upon turning them off it works for a while. The right signal always works, what other than the switch could it be?
2. The rear wiper constantly goes off on it's own, despite all buttons being off, short of disconnecting the rear wiper, what else can I check?
3. This happens very rarely, the vehicle whether at drive speed, or idling, will sputter like it is going to stall, check engine light flashes on briefly, the resumes normal. Only once has it actually stalled during the episode, and it only lasts maybe 3 to 5 seconds. The MIL has NOT recorded any codes, which makes finding the issue that much harder.
Thank you for your time,
Yan Baribeault
AnswerHi Yan,
1. The only thing other than the turn signal switch would be the wire between it and the fuse block under the dash. The wire is light blue/white and goes from pin 4 of the switch to either pin 4 or pin 26 (discrepency in the wiring diagram/plug diagram that I can't resolve). My belief however would be that there is poor contacts in the turn signal switch for the left hand request. You could try spraying some electrical contact cleaned into the part of the switch from which the turn lever extends to see if you can improve the conductivity of those contacts.
2. On the rear wiper operating by itself, I would suspect that the switch inside the motor that is responsible for the 'self-parking' function at turn-off is not cancelling itself reliably when the arm returns to the park position. Is that arm prevented from reaching the park position due to its not being applied to the motor output shaft in the correct position? Also, you could open the motor and check the internal switch contacts to see if they might be too close to oneanother and thus failing to open when needed when the arm reaches the self-park position.
3.On the sputter, when you say tha MIL has not recorded any fault codes, do you mean that by using the ignition approach to doing a readout it won't flash? If so then that is normal because in the '97 model year that way of reading fault codes was not offered. Rather you need to do a readout with a code reader via a socket that is under the dash to the left of the steering wheel using an OBD-II reader. An Autozone parts store will do that for free, or an independent garage will do it for around $40. Let me know the fault code numbers that readout and we can go from there.
Roland
PS Sorry for the delay, I just got your question in the 'pool' yesterday.
