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Fuckit, less than $20 parts, and very little labor. Works perfectly 👍
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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100% fire hazard. Something was already wrong with this lighting system and THEN they bypassed the fuse. Buddy of mine once installed a set of Hella lights and just ran the wires along the body and through the door jam, car burned up that week and damaged his and his neighbors house in the process.
Also how does this even work? The lights are always on, and this makes them blink constantly.
Realized while I was typing that flashers probably mean hazard lights. If thats a GM with the button on top of the column, then its probably just dirty and you might fix it by clicking it on and off a couple of times.
Door jamb*
Unless it had blended pieces of door in it when you canned it, of course.
Oh shit, my bad, I meant door preserves.
I figured. Easier to keep them whole in my experience.
Can't you just also have a fuse in a setup like this? I know OP doesn't, Im just wondering if you think something could be reasonably jerry-rigged.
Umm, what in the flying fuck is that, and what does it have anything to do with the price of weed in Colorado?
That's an inline fuse holder, it'll let you add the fuse back into the system. Highly recommend, you can leave this temporary fix basically forever if you reinstall the safety feature!
Fair enough, gotcha 👍
If I do bother with that, I'll just solder a proper 15 amp fuse directly inline with the bodge fix.
At least I made sure it's got an easy undo, just pull the bodge out and drop a fuse back in, whenever I manage to locate the original flasher module...
Oh, you're fun, you assume lots of things..
Nothing about this truck makes sense, I'm literally playing it by ear.
Fuck, it's missing the passenger side dashboard..
This is a redneck nightmare, but still runs pretty nicely...
Nothing in my post is an assumption, but this is: Your driving that turd on the streets and its breaking down, thats why I think you need you hazards. I'll also assume you are in over you're head and that you're cheap (or broke).
Seriously, no reason to shame anyone over this. We are all struggling in different ways. If this is what makes it work, so be it. Not like they are defeating their airbags or some safety issue.
You're correct about the shaming, it was not my intent, but I'm sorry if that happened.
That being said, worst case scenario with this setup is the ground fault failure that is not fused and continues to increase in temperature until a fire starts on the road. Second is the vehicle simply shutting down due to loss of power while driving.
I appreciate your concern.
There is absolutely no way this can short out, all wires and clips are fully insulated, and the module itself is completely surrounded by plastic.
Whenever I manage to figure out where the OG flasher module is, I can very easily pull my redneck fix out and put a 15 amp fuse back in.
But this works for now...
That's fine, you're entitled to your words.
The truck was a gift, I had to figure out how to crank it up first.
Sadly there are no hazard lights, the previous brain damaged owner jammed a screwdriver down in the steering column and fucked all that up.
This is Mississippi homie, we're good here, I got it roadworthy..