[Vwdiesel] Mysterious glowing turn signal indicator light

[Roger Brown]

Could be a bad socket/ground connection as mentioned earlier:
http://www.4crawler.com/Diesel/CheapTricks/index.shtml#SocketRepairs

Also, any trailer wiring harness/adapter? If so, disconnect that and see if things change.

Any LED bulbs in the turn signals or tail lights? If so, try swapping those back to 
incandescent and see if it changes. ANd make sure you have the proper bulbs in there, if 
dual filament, single filament bulbs can cause problems.

On my 4x4, if I run LED turn signal bulbs, I get something like that with the turn signal 
indicator slowly brightening then dimming when I have the headlights on at night. I think 
it is the LED bulb combined with the trailer wiring adapter hooked up. If I swap back to 
regular turn signal bulbs, the problem goes away.


On 10/23/2013 8:09 PM, dieseltdi at verizon.net wrote:
> So, I hope to tackle the mysterious glowing turn signal indicator light on Saturday before I jump on a plane and head to Denver for a convention early next week.  As I said in the previous post, the light glows as soon as the key is turned into the on position and stays on all the time.  It isn’t a full on light, just a glow that is not easily seen in daylight but is obvious at night (same kind of glow some people get with the water separator on the later models on the glow plug light).  Once you activate the blinker, the glow stops, or if I honk the horn the glow goes out as long as the horn is activated or when I activate the emergency brake the glow goes out for just a few seconds.  My first idea would be a bad ground somewhere but anyone have any suggestions of where to start looking?  Hayden
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