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About 6 months ago I replaced my low beam headlight. It went out again. I bought a replacement bulb, but it doesn't work. Could this be a fuse issue? if so, does the Outlander have a fuse for each headlight?

Here's the second problem -- sometimes (not all the time!), when I put on my turn signal, my emergency flashers come on inside the car on the dash...however, on the outside, you only see the turn signal.

Thanks

There is a separate fuse for each headlamp. Would be nice to know if your having problems with the left or right low beam headlamp.

Not sure why the hazard indicators are coming on when your using the turn signals. The hazard switch is used to tell two ECUs (electronic control units), one in the column and another that is part of the fuse panel that the hazard switch is pressed. Someone is going to have to diagnose that problem when it is occurring while monitoring inputs to both those modules.

Thanks! I did check my manual this morning and saw there are separate fuses for each of the lights and the high and low beams and that was the problem -- low beam fuse was blown.

I'll work on the other issue. It doesn't seem to be causing any issues--as long as my turn signal is on outside, I can deal with the flashers on the dashboard!

STATS: Automatic, 97,000 miles


On my mitsubishi mirage 2001, the blinkers stopped working entirely. The back lights, and the dash light also went out. But I took it in and had the fuses changed.

This fixed the dash light and the back light, but the blinker lights are still not working.

Any ideas or is this a mysterious electrical problem?

If you've just had your car into a shop for diagnose & repair, you could call them and ask about your turn signals.

There is a turn signal/hazard unit under the left side of the dash you could check.

Does your hazard lights work?

If your hazards are working, more than likely the relay is ok. I believe on that system its an electronic relay that controls both the turn signals & hazards.

The best way would be to get a wiring diagram and check power going into & coming out of the combination switch (turn signal switch on the column). Although not impossible, I haven't seen too many of these electronic units go bad, most of the time it's in the combination switch (on the few moving parts in the system)

Unfortunately I can't post anything out of my data base but if you need a diagram of the system, maybe one of the other guys can hook you up when they see this.......

2002
Mitsubishi
Lancer
2.0L /4 cylinder
135,xxx miles

Hi! I've been trying to figure out what is wrong with my car here this past week - hopefully you know more than I do about it!

So here's what's wrong:

The turn signals and hazard flasher shut off randomly in my 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer.

What I've done about it:

1) I located and replaced the hazard signal fuse.(10 amp fuse located in the engine compartment). When I did this in the beginning the fuse would snap after a couple of minutes of use of my turn signals. Now it snaps instantly when I touch the fuse to the terminal.
2) I purchased and ECT 2000 short circuit/open circuit detector. When I test the fuse terminal for the hazard flashers the ECT 2000 does not detect a short.... At this point I am very confused and frustrated because I thought for sure there was a short somewhere in the circuit.
3) I pulled out every single fuse in the engine compartment as well as all of the fuses inside the car. All of them are just fine. I also looked for any other fuse that could be related to the turn signals in the owners manual; to my knowledge no such thing exists for this car.

What I think could be wrong:

Right now I'm thinking that it could be the Turn signal relay, but the thing is I cannot find it. I've scoured the owner's manual as well as the internet for this information. I'm beginning to think there is no turn signal relay for this car... I'm in dire need of help. Can someone tell me what is wrong with my car?

It appears that the flasher/relay is built into the ECU.

It appears that the flasher/relay is built into the ECU.




Thanks for the input! I'll try that out.

Hey guys,

I've got a 1997 Mitsubishi Galant ES Edition (~97k miles) and I was hoping to get some troubleshooting advice for a turn signal problem that started up yestereday please.

How it happened and description:
I was driving on the interstate and everything was pretty normal except that it was raining very hard. I needed to pass someone so I turned on my left turn signal. At that moment I noticed that my left turn signal didn't come on, in fact it was my right turn signal that had. After this there was no position on the stick that would allow me to have anything other than a right turn signal (including the middle setting), although the stick seemed to behave regularly (same stopping points and my brights still worked along with every headlight setting controlled by that stick). The only thing I could do to avoid looking like one of those people that forgets their turn signals on for 50 miles is to turn my hazard lights on. Since there's different ways that a right turn signal can be "stuck on" I'll elaborate: It's ticking as it would if I was using my right turn signal, but I can't turn it off, nor does the left turn signal come on when I move the stick to that position.

What I've tried: The next day after a little research I went inside the fuse box near the driver side knee area and checked for a signal relay, but they had a plastic piece in there so it couldn't have been that. I went to Autozone and the guy there told me that I should check the flasher, doing a little more research and searching around I was able to find it inside my dash and took that in for a replacement. They had a generic that fit the slot so I got that and unfortunately when I tried it I was greeted with a right turn signal yet again. The only real difference is that the generic flasher ticks faster than the one that came with the car but I'm sure there's nothing special about that. I also checked the turn signal fuse and everything appeared fine, just in case I replaced it with a spare to no avail. Under the fuse box in the engine compartment it doesn't seem like anything in there is relevant, however there's so many abbreviations that i'm not familiar with it'd be pretty hard to tell short of taking all of the fuses out with the car running.

Is there anything else that I'm missing? I'm a little intimidated by the bunches of wires near the steering wheel so I haven't checked for nicks and severed wires. I feel like I'm flying blind so I'd like to get a little expert help before I move on to the next fidgeting step. I got the car used a few years ago and the service manual wasn't included.

I would greatly appreciate any leads or knowledgable posts about how the turn signal system works in my particular car. I'll do my best to keep you guys updated on the progress of my repair.

Thanks guys (and gals),
Jamison

Hey Mcgyver, maybe you could use a banana to power the headlights.

Haha, thanks Hammer Time. Maybe, but my alternator already has enough trouble charging my battery without the banana implant. Galants (and from what I saw from my step sister's Eclipse, most mitsubishis) don't come with very wide belts for the alternator so I get squeals from time to time.

I'm happy to say that my car is back on the road. The odd contraption stood up to a test drive and I figured out that the only reason the brights weren't staying on is because I didn't have my regular lights on at the time, doh!

I did use your images (which are worlds better than the autozone ones) for my multimeter tests to confirm before plugging it into the car, so I definitely appreciate them :)

One more question and it's not a big one. Where did you get those images? Those are really great if it's from a free source.

Problem solved, I'll definitely be coming back (hopefully not too soon though).

Thanks guys,
Jamison

www.Alldata.com but they are definitely not free. You can get a subscription for one vehicle pretty reasonable from www.Alldatadiy.com

Mitsubishi Galant 2003
Today the brake lights quit (ok so we noticed it today) but all other lights are working including the brake light in the back window. So what could be causing the problem? The fuses appear to be good.

If the 3rd "high mount" brake light is working properly, that would mean that your problem is in the turn signal switch. The 2 lower lights "only" pass through that switch so the turn signal can cancel the brake lights when necessary.