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Hi everyone.

I need some advice. Today I started the car first time this year.
Everything seems to be fine except that the direction indicators are not working.
If I press the hazard switch, nothing happens.
The car in question is a 1998 +8

Could this indicate that something is wrong with a relay?
Where should I start to look?

I have been looking around a bit behind the dashboard during the winter, so there is a chance I have caused the problem myself.

Best regards

Start with the hazard warning light relay. Wiggle the connections...……….

Thank you for the tip. For me who is not a car electrics expert. Does this relay look just like a standard relay?

Yes & it will be in that mess of wires behind the dash. Put your handle under your drivers side near the tunnel. It should be in there.

Do you also have a fuse board under the hood ?
I had my indicators stop working and it was one of the fuses in there that just needed re-seating.

The fuses are under the dash above the tunnel

To report on progress, and more questions.

I have not yet found the problem. I found three relays behind the dash. All worked OK.
I have a wiring diagram that seems to be fairly accurate.
According to that I should have 12V on a purple/red wire at the hazard switch. That is OK.
I have tried to mannually short the wires at the indicator stalk. No change.
I can not find any faulty fuse. Yet.

Questions.
According to the wiring diagram there should be something called a "Flasher unit". How does such a thing look like?
Since the hazard switch has 12V, but I dont hear any relay click, I start to wonder if the problem could be in the earthing side of the realys. What do you think about that idea?

Best regards

Hej Björn!
A flascher unit is also kind of relay! So it looks like a relay.

It looks like a relay. The earth is on the rhs front wing behind the tyre

Just wanted to tell everyone that the problem is fixed now.
After investigating all the relays I could find and double-checking all the fuses, nothing was found to be wrong.
I then started to look for loose calbles, but after a while I had to admit defeat. I do not have the knowledge or the place to be to really start pulling everything behind the dash apart.

So I enlisted the help from a proffessional. He could fairly quickly find a loose cable somwhere. I do not know exactly where.
So now everything is good again. Well, except for me feeling stupid. But I can take that.