I've had many trips to the shop to figure out this dangerous problem. Finally a mechanic was playing with the hazard light button while the turn signal was on. If he moved the switch around, the signal would work. He replaced the switch for $45 and hasn't been a problem since.
I noticed about three months ago the turn signals started working only sporadically. It was driving me nuts and the repair shop couldn't tell me what was wrong and they are honest so they didn't want to replace something when they didn't know exactly for sure what the problem was. I was grateful but knew if I went to the dealership they were going to charge an extensive amount in labor fees and quite frankly with the car being 6 years old I wanted to have this fixed as inexpensively as possible.
Finally, now three months later, my brother who is a car fanatic and works on his own, (should have asked him a long time ago) figured out that it was the hazard switch. He can fix it for me no problem. The problem is obtaining the damn switch! I have tried 2 dealerships and 3 online stores including GM PARTS DIRECT.com and the part is on national backorder.
The one dealership that I bought the car from, I believe, does not even want to attempt to help me... although I know from research there isn't an exact recall on the IMPALA there is an exact recall on the MALIBU for this same problem and during the first few years I had the car, when there was no problem, 2001-2003, apparently dealers were fixing this problem left and right on the IMPALA. Dealerships are full of crap and worthless in my opinion.
So now I just have to wait until the part becomes available so my brother can save me the $200 in labor to fix it and it's only a $30 part by the way. At least I know how to get them working again by jostling the hazard switch.
Intermittently the turn signal will not work, the turn signal will come back on if I turn the hazards on, once during a long drive the turn signal automatically fixed itself and worked again with out having to use the turn signal. I don't turn or switch lanes much during my drive to works so it is only annoying not dangerous yet.
- changinghorizion,
Fond Du Lac, WI, US
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- Dominick D., St. Clairsville, OH, US