IAre your Vintage turn signals self-cancelling?

Jack,
Mine self cancel in my 2006 VS.

I have a '07 VS and mine either aren't self-cancelling or they are malfunctioning.

You Vintage owners---are your turn signals self cancelling?---Jack

Turn signals= one of my personal pains in the ass.
I replaced my switch with the expensive German unit and have spent hours adjusting it......
Sometimes they cancel, sometimes they don't!
Good Luck, Ernie

It's looking like I DO have self cancelling turnsignals that are inop. Durn---another project for the list. I saw an "fixit" article somewhere here plus I'l email Kurt to see if I need some part.

I always thought the turn signals were manually operated like my BMW R-80 bike's.

Thanks---Jack

Jack,
the VS turn signals ARE self cancelling, but we often screw them up! (WE means ME here). I put on a new steering wheel adapter to fit my banjo wheel and have remanufactured the cancelling arm twice now to little result. Sometimes it works, others it does not. All in all, it is my fault not Kirk's. I guess I will take it apart again.

Happy Trails and little agrivations,
Dusty

my VS left one works but not the right, its a PITA.

I did a tech article concerning the stock VW signal set-up here: http://speedstershop.com/viewtopic.php?t=977

Barring a broken switch assembly, this broken or sometimes omitted part is usually the problem. http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/DetailsList.cfm?ID=113415660A
~WB

Mine is like Bob's, the left one works and right one does not. So, I just make all left turns.

I have a plastic one like shown in the link above and an older metal one I am willing to give anyone who needs them.

Jack -

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones....the turn signal on my '95 VS self-cancels with never a problem. OK, so now that I've said that they probably won't work the next time I take a drive!!

Good luck with your project!

I'll take one if still available

You can make your own self canceling setup with a strategically placed roll pin in the back of your steering wheel adapter. Take the wheel off, and look carefully at the mechanism. It'll come to you.

Im running a 67 bus turn signal switch and yes it does cancel

The stock 66 bug turn signal switches like VS uses have finger that are plastic i think..

But they will break.

Your horn ring could have come lose also.

Your gonna have to pull the wheel and inspect it to find out whats going on.. So you'll know what to order.

So does VS car use VW turn signal parts?---Jack

And every other VW part that they can get away with . . . .


Oh, and ALL of my turn signals self-cancel, just as the factory (Volkswagen) intended. What a pain in the ass if they didn't ! !



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This isnt a burning issue. Spend the time better by installing a 3rd brake lite.

Even in modern (2003 buick) cars the self cancel doesnt work when using small wheel movements (for lane changes.)

Install A buzzer. Especially if your steering wheel blocks the trafficater (thats dash turn signal warning lite in BritSpeak )

Hit the road Jack, Enjoy life !!

...I don't know about the turn signals, but my checks self-cancel!!

Mine is like Bill's and Bob's VS...........the left works and the right does not. We are just doomed to go down the road looking like fools with a flashing right turn signal. So that takes it across 2000, 2001 and 2007 VS.

As to the brake light last mentioned............better to be flashing down the road than run over by some dummy in an SUV and my brake light seems to have stopped that fear.

Fred Adler
San Diego

We who are driving possibly the lowest smallest vehicles in a time when roads have the greatest number of 4000# + SUV's, monster high trucks driven by an increasingly distracted cellphone screaming hormonal populace, should really take xtra precautions .

Could be why red is the most pop color, at least with LBC(littleBritCars)
That 3rd brakelite is good but minimal.

Guess I'm venting a little cause someone told me my buggy looked unoriginal, inauthentic with highback seats.
Mebbe a little. But I'll never hafta check in to a hosp with whiplash either,

Dave:

Stop venting...

The next time some a$$wipe tells you that your "buggy looks unoriginal, inauthentic with highback seats", just ask them;

"Oh, and what do YOU drive?"

That usually shuts them up right quick....

I'm reminded of the time I had my flared CMC at a "Porschefest" meet of originals in Boston. I was getting ready to go, and had just shut the passenger door after stowing some stuff. A cute, elder couple were almost at my elbow and when the door shut the elder gent turns to his wife and says: "Hear that? THAT's the sound of good German craftsmanship!"

Right then, I was proud of my two German Grandmothers, giving me my maternal heritage....

Don't know what the hell my Irish and Scottish grandfathers would think!!

gn

Fred... Try adjusting the switch ring just behind your steering wheel. Loosen the 1 set screw, then simply rotate the unit.
This way, you can make the right side cancel while the left does not. If you are lucky, You can use your left knee to cancel left turn signals like I do.
Sound hokey? ........ Well, YEAH!

I'm going to remove my steering wheel to check why the turn signals won't work. The nut holding the wheel on is that ever-popular 23mm size. Anyone ever try to find this size? Lowe's and Sears here stocks 22mm and 24 mm but no 23mm. Must be a little-used size.

Anyway I ordered one off Sear's web site yesterday. (Takes a deep socket too.)

FYI---Jack

So Ernie. Now we have a 2005 data point also for Vintage. Really it must be a function of the adaptors. I searched and searched for an adaptor for a MOMO on my 1971 914 and finally found one in Uruguay on ebay. Still did not work with the turn signals. I figure the combination of a 19XX steering column with a 19XY turn signal assembly capped off with a pseudo banjo wheel with a Porsche crest I glued onto it from the hub caps.................AND I EXPECT it to work?

Fred Adler
San Diego

Bravo Dave on blowing a gasket over SUV drivers. I figure we should print up bumper stickers:

"WEIGHT of CAR is inversely proportional to I.Q."

Seriously, if you have the canceling mechanism in the turn signal switch, you can make anything you've got work. It might take two roll pins, instead of one- but I made mine work in the 2002 JPS after I switched to the bus switch and short adapter collar.