Hello all, I've been reading this forum for a long time since I bought my 2000 Maxima back in August of 2012. I have a problem and hopefully one of you can give me a hint as to where to look before I take it to my mechanic. For about a little while now I've been noticing that when I use my left turn indicator, the headlights will do a quick "blink". It will also do this when it's resetting to the neutral position. If I set it to the right, I don't notice this blink at all, although it will blink when returning to the neutral position.

The best way I can describe this "blink" is a quick off an on. It happens extremely quickly, it's VERY sporadic. It doesn't happen constantly, sometimes it will happen every time I go to make a left turn or when resetting from a right turn, sometimes it won't at all. I should note that the headlights are HIDs.

I'm not very car literate, so please bear with me on this, but if I could save money before I take it to my mechanic then that would be great. I've been thinking that the indicator switch is going bad. Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

When it blinks fast, it's usually the sign of a bad bulb. Not sure why it would be sporatic.

 

It could be the type of charger you have plugged in. When i had my sentra, if i plugged in my off brand charger it would blink fast as hell.

Sent from the batcave

 

interesting... i have the exact same problem with my car... same year 2000 and it only happens on the left turn signal is on... i have tried manually to put the stalk back in center position very very slowly and its fine, no blink... my next step will be to take the stalk apart and clean/re grease it but I am not entirely sure that's where the problem is... i am thinking it might be a ground getting bad or something but haven't checked all of them yet..
mrbat are you saying a charger plugged in the cigarette lighter?

 

LUDI are you running aftermarket HID's also?

OP> Are you running aftermarket HID's or the 5.5 gen lights?

If you're running aftermarket HID's I'd be curious how they're wired in, whether using a relay or not.

If they're wired properly, this problem is probably a bad combination stalk. Fairly uncommon for them to fail on a Nissan, so I'd check the HID side first, always check the aftermarket/modified stuff first.

 

HID's in the fogs only with blazer projectors, and yes I do have a single relay harness on the ballasts...

 

Sounds like grabbing a combo stalk from the Wreckers is not a bad call in your case Ludi

 

I believe they are after market HIDs. I'll get more information from the previous owner as to where he got them, I believe he installed them himself, he's one of my mechanics.