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Old Feb 21st, 2020, 20:37   #21
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Lovely car by the way, Ive not seen one in a good few years, especially not an 827 sterling, memories of Tony pond setting the isle of man average speed record in one back in the 90s.
Thanks, there's very few of them left now.

Tony Ponds car still survives, now with a 2.0 turbo instead of the original 2.7 V6, got some photos somewhere of it.
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Rough rule of thumb then is if you fit LED indicator bulbs, on a 7/940 fit an electronic flasher relay (7/960 models have the flasher relay built into the hazard warning switch) and others you will probably have to fit the big load resistors or find an electronic flasher relay.
I've fitted an electronic flasher relay to my 827 Sterling (saloon, the coupe was sold a couple of years back) and that has improved matters a lot over the extra load resistors.

If your car has CANBus, you'll need CANBus compatible LED bulbs that usually have some resistor built in to fool the system.
700 and 900 already have the 3 pin flasher relay in the central Fuse / Relay box ... The red hazzard button is simply a multi pole switch .
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700 and 900 already have the 3 pin flasher relay in the central Fuse / Relay box ... The red hazzard button is simply a multi pole switch .


Where is the flasher relay? That's the central relay board, there are no relays in the fusebox on the end of the dash - as i said, 7/960s have the flasher relay BUILT-IN to the hazard warning switch, it's not simply a multipole switch!

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The simple hazard button built-in to the indicator stalk is just a multipole switch but the hazard warning switch on the 7/960 has a builot in flasher relay - look at the size of it for a start!
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Where is the flasher relay? That's the central relay board, there are no relays in the fusebox on the end of the dash - as i said, 7/960s have the flasher relay BUILT-IN to the hazard warning switch, it's not simply a multipole switch!


of course , Its the 740 with the conventional flasher relay and red switch on the stalk ... The 900 is completely different as you show ..
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Where is the flasher relay? That's the central relay board, there are no relays in the fusebox on the end of the dash - as i said, 7/960s have the flasher relay BUILT-IN to the hazard warning switch, it's not simply a multipole switch!


of course , Its the 740 with the conventional flasher relay and red switch on the stalk ... The 900 is completely different as you show ..
That's not a 900 - it's a 760! The 940 had the same set-up as the 740, the 960 had similar to the 760 but on later models a few extra relayboxes and fuse boxes.
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