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Originally Posted by BNaylor
Welcome to AF and our Alero forum.
99% of the time the noise you hear is not caused by the allegedly defective hazard relay although you do hear the hazard relay clicking. It is caused by the Multifunction Switch (MFS) at the steering column.
You can remove the MFS, clean it out with electrical contact cleaner and re-lube with dielectric silicone grease. I just did my Alero a few months ago and it works like a champ now. The hazard relay fix was done per the GM TSB and did not cure the noisy random clicking sound but the MFS fix did.  |
Once again a thank you to everyone for replying. Im kind of lucky because a close friend of mine works at GM. A pontiac dealer that just converted to a chevy dealership.
We tried to find a car going to "car Heaven" in the dealership to steal the combination switch out of but no luck. I'll give your idea a shot here.
My friend also showed me the simple trick to get around the passcode problem if the security system shuts the injectors off. He tried to show me a bunch of things (too many - so i forgot most of them, I'm more of an Acura/Honda or old school GM person) so I have to ask him again and write it down.
So far it runs o.k. but has a little annoying pull in the steering. I got the car 4 new tires this week, and noticed there is a new strut/spring on one side so maybe the previous owner had some issue. I'll have to get the steering aligned one day.
Nice people here on this forum, I'd like to start a movement to have people nice as they are on forums when they are behind the wheels of their cars. I had so many people do silly things in their cars in front of me today. There has been some really bad accidents in this area this summer caused by people that are rushing or being selfish (usually that's a combo). I saw one the other night, I couldn't even tell what kind of a car it was, there were so many pieces of it scattered between a divided highway.