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Lately when I switch the right turn light it starts blinking ridiculously fast. The left light is fine and so is the hazard.

Sometimes its good and others it blinks like crazy. So does anyone have any idea what the problem is? Thanks

most of the time that means the bulb is out (its built in to let you know that either the tail lamp or the front blinker needs to be replaced), but try pushing on the wires going into the head light, and behind the carpet in the trunk tail light because mine has done that off an on for the past year or so, and it always seem to be a frayed wire inside those cheap harnesses. Moving it around usually fixes the problem. I've never had a bulb go out yet when mine starts flashing fast.

Don't forget the side repeaters. Those little tiny ones on the front wings.
If you have them that is.

thanks guys.

well I have a 96 Contour GL but I'll check the lights tomorrow

Mine did that, I posted here, so u could have searched, but I wouldn't have searched. I continously had problems with mine blinking fast and then not blinking fast. I switched my tail light bulbs and the problem switched sides, so I replaced the bulb and I haven't had a problem since. Just replace the bulbs, they're cheap and will last you longer than the stock bulbs.

Yes, mine also did that on one side for a while. And yes, I too found that it was an intermittant bulb failure (you know, like the filament barely making contact and sometimes failing). The factory uses a solid state relay controlled flasher, and they are made to blink fast when one bulb looses contact as a way to notify the driver that a bulb is out. I think it might even say about it in the owner's manual. So shortly after replacing that one bulb, another failed, so I just replaced ALL the rest (since they all have similar usage on them), and now I've never had any problems since