You know the ole thing Jack ..
at least from me..
not much is going to change until someone actually LOOKS at the affected
area.

Usually the repair process actually starts with that step.

if you've seen that area before ....it's common to see things gooked up
on the spring that's part of the turn signal 'hold' mechanism ..like
black fuzzthere.
  ( kinda 'seat belt' syndrome ....those can suffer from a fine
very-hard-to-create mixture of food, gum, animal hair and so forth.
Vanagons generally don't do that very badly though. )

   you know me ..I'd try a little WD applied externally first .
if I didn't want to take off the steering wheel ...
which is very easy.
pop out the round VWsymbol..
mark steering wheel location relative to steering shaft..
remove big nut with a 24 mm half inch drive socket.

you just need a less viscous version of the gook that's in there, for
these cold temps. WD is good for that.

Scott

On 1/18/2013 4:45 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> At first I thought this might be related to below-freezing temps gumming
> things up, but these past few days haven't been very cold and the
> problem persists.
>
> The turn indicator doesn't auto-off reliably when the steering wheel is
> returned to neutral after making a turn. Some worn-out part, I expect.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>