turn signal wont work even w new bulb

[99intriguelover]

ive got a front light out on a 99 intrigue and its the inner most yelllow light. this is during the day .when the lights come at nite this lite will lite up. but it still wont blink. now during daylite the back turn lites will light and blink if you manually move the lever. but still wont work up front. ive replaced bulbs and nothing seems to help. any ideas?

[lunasea808]

Check to see if the contacts are clean and see if the replacement light has a burned socket. I had the same problem. I had to get new sockets for the ones I've replaced. I wish that I have known that before I bought the replacement lamp.

[howardjltx]

I just fixed both left and right sockets on my 2000 Intrigue last week. I had problems with both the turn signals and park lamps (these are in the same bulb) up front not working. Both the socket and in a connector was bad (the wire harness was ok).

I had several pins in the connector on the back of the headlight assembly, that the wire harness plugs into, to come loose and push down into the connecter. I got a pair of needle nose pliers and gently pulled them back in place. After repeating this several times for the same pins, I notice I had to slightly bend them straight and plug the connector pack in slow and easily so it would not push the pins down again - no telling how long this will last until they vibrate loose again.

On one socket, without disassembling it, I was able to stick a small screw driver and bend the metal contact out to make the bulb wire make contact with the socket contact. The other one was not so easily fixed:

Now for disassembling the light socket, instead of replacing the socket I was able to disassemble the socket by using and exacto knife to cut through the epoxy on the back of the connector. Once disassembled I saw that due to overheating, the plastic had melted causing the brass or copper wire connector to move and loose contact with the wire on the light bulb. I used two needle nose players to bend this more (did this in several small steps to make sure I didn't bend it too much).

So far the above has worked well.......

Originally Posted by 99intriguelover

ive got a front light out on a 99 intrigue and its the inner most yelllow light. this is during the day .when the lights come at nite this lite will lite up. but it still wont blink. now during daylite the back turn lites will light and blink if you manually move the lever. but still wont work up front. ive replaced bulbs and nothing seems to help. any ideas?

[kok328]

Hats off to howardjltx! Now you know the difference between a mechanical/electrical repairmain and a Automotive Technician.

[howardjltx]

close - try rocket scientist