You have a bad ground connection some where. When the lights are off,
they provide enough of a ground for the turn signals to work., When the
lights are on, the back feed from them prevent current from flowing
through the turn signal lamps so the flasher does not flash. Turn on the
left turns signals and look to see which lamp is dim. That is the bad
socket or connection.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Thomas Wilsher
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:30 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Turn lights weirdness

I am having a strange problem with my turn lights.
- With the headlights off, turn lights are working fine (i.e. blinks
normally)
- With the headlights on, the turn light works fine to the right, but
not to the left.
  Left turnlights just stays on without blinking.
- Emergency/Hazard links blink OK, regardless of the headlights being on
or not.

 This is a 1987 Syncro Westy.
I haven't taken anything apart yet, but am curious if anybody has any
ideas or has run into a similar situation. Archive search didn't turn up
anything quite similar to this problem.

--Thomas