Indicator side repeater

[mercman]

Hi guys,

Anyone replaced the side repeaters on their S3, my nearside stopped working so I took the lens off to check the bulb and found that the internals had disintigrated. I bought a couple of new ones from SJ and am going to replace them in the next couple of days, wondered if it's a straightforward job.

When you remove the unit from the wing are the connections accessable externally or are they buried under the dash. The reason I ask is there's approx four feet of cable with the new units.

Les

Edited October 18, 2009 by mercman

[ramjet]

Les,

Not an S3 I know, but my S4 has spade connectors on the back of the indicator units. Is the wire separate or hard wired into the units?

[mercman]

Les,

Not an S3 I know, but my S4 has spade connectors on the back of the indicator units. Is the wire separate or hard wired into the units?

Hard wired

Les

[ramjet]

Oh. Can't help you then. Sorry

[Mr_John111]

Yup

Changed the side repeater on one side (so they're odd but who can look at both sides at once )

Its mounted to the body with self tappers and the wires on the one supplied by SJ have different connectors so I simply spliced them to the existing wires.

Had to re-make the earth as the unit itself is expected to earth to a metal body and in its original fitment the earth wire is held by one of the mounting bolts.

Oh yes and I had to remove the mounting studs as getting access from behind to put nuts on them is a no go.

Fortunately the mounting plate is a little bit larger and so covered up the multitude of holes from the DPO mounting the original in 3 slightly different places

John

[mercman]

Les

How did you get on? Did you do it? I am in the same boat and am hoping not to have to get to the back??

Cheers

Buddsy

Hi Scott,

Yes, did it no problem, I traced the wires to the luggage compartment behind the washer bottle took about an hour to do the job.

Les

[FRANTIC FRANC]

Got rid of mine altogether and filled the holes - currently in the process of moving the repeaters to the mirrors.