Dull Men's Club

OP, from what I can see your fix appears to remove the fuse for the circuit and brings the contacts down on a length of loose wire dangling near the door jamb, with bare quick connects exposed. If the fuse has indeed been entirely bypassed, one of those wires/terminals will have 12V on it without fused protection and is at risk of shorting out to ground on bare metal, risking further electrical damage or potentially a causing a fire.

When youre poor and need transportation you do what you need to. I drove a shit box and for a couple weeks with only the e brake to stop because the master cylinder went. I'm always jealous of the privilege people have to judge people for being inventive in poverty.

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.

You had better have fused that line somewhere

OP, please add an inline fuse to that! And cover those exposed contacts with some electrical tape.

II wasn't able to turn of the windshield wipers in my old car. So I installed a simple switch after the fuse and glued it to the dashboard. You just have to know how to help yourself.

Tell me about it. I had a blower fan motor go out in the cab of my JD 4720 tractor. I need to remove the roof of the cab to get at it. And then the blower motor is $450. I can deal with the roof, it's just 13 bolts and is lightweight polymer. But the only damn thing wrong with the blower is the 3 speed motor resistor is toast after 15 years. A $30 part. But JD doesn't sell the resistor, just the whole unit. Nor does anyone else. A third party blower is still $300.

The worst part is that they do not mark the resistor with a number to trace. I spent a month searching forums and suppliers for the correct part. But I finally found one. $30 vs $450. Such a scam.

Put a switch in the dash and flick it twice a second.

Check your manual, it is probably in your engine bay fuse box.

In this age on unrepairability, you give me hope. Clever solution. Congrats!

Classy

did you try just replacing the fuse first. usually blinkers on without flashing is just how they fail. Im like 90% sure I have fixed it by changing the fuse in the past.