You… make the call!

June 1st, 2004 | by Scott Jennings |

Here’s the sitch. 1991 Ford Thunderbird, and the turn signals aren’t working. They’re the kind of turn signals that are the same as the taillights, you know?

So when I just have my headlights on, both taillights are fine. When I throw my hazards on, everything blinks except my right rear taillight. And when I try to use my turn signals, nothing at all happens. The left turn signal used to work fine and the right one would blink quickly in front and do nothing in the tail, and now neither turn signal is working.

You make the call! Is it a faulty flasher? A burned out bulb? A tired fuse? A bad turn signal switch? Or, Lord help me, “the sampler”?

I need my turn signals fixed ASAP because that right turn onto my potholed street off of 15-501 makes me nervous enough when I’m advertising my intentions to the jackass behind me. When I’m just sticking my arm out the window at a right angle, I’m afraid he just thinks I’m all “hail fellow well met, motorist!” Which I’m not, because I hate other motorists.

OH! Also, the white lights on the tail that come on when you throw her into reverse aren’t coming on. Neither of them. Is that somehow related, or a strange and horrifying coincidence?

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