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Ok. It wasn't a major repair, but it was a puzzle, and had stumped my independent mechanic. The brake lights stopped working, and the left blinker was acting erratic. I figured the only thing that passed through both the brake lights and the blinkers was the Lamp Failure Module. I called around, and only the dealer could get me one - in a friggin week and it'd cost me $160. After market units still cost me $60-80, and I wasn't 100% sure that it'd work.
I really didn't want to pay the dealership $80 bucks just to TELL me I needed an $80 part. So off to the junk yard, where they pointed me to the pile-o-volvos for my happy hunting of the obscenely expensive little red canister.
Final cost $5. The blinker still acted eratic, I read something about bulb failures causing this and bought a set of blinker bulbs for another $5.50, for a grand total of $10.50.
The blinker bulb base was cracked and the terminals were burned down. I am thinking the bulb itself was damaged and caused the Lamp Failure Module to fail.
WOOOT! I love it when I can fix things myself.
Ok. It wasn't a major repair, but it was a puzzle, and had stumped my independent mechanic. The brake lights stopped working, and the left blinker was acting erratic. I figured the only thing that passed through both the brake lights and the blinkers was the Lamp Failure Module. I called around, and only the dealer could get me one - in a friggin week and it'd cost me $160. After market units still cost me $60-80, and I wasn't 100% sure that it'd work.
I really didn't want to pay the dealership $80 bucks just to TELL me I needed an $80 part. So off to the junk yard, where they pointed me to the pile-o-volvos for my happy hunting of the obscenely expensive little red canister.
Final cost $5. The blinker still acted eratic, I read something about bulb failures causing this and bought a set of blinker bulbs for another $5.50, for a grand total of $10.50.
The blinker bulb base was cracked and the terminals were burned down. I am thinking the bulb itself was damaged and caused the Lamp Failure Module to fail.
WOOOT! I love it when I can fix things myself.