Volvo S40 indicator lights continue to flash when locking car?

Scania · 18 Apr 2010 at 17:29

I have a friend who's just picked up a '98 reg S40 that continually flashes its indicators if he locks the car with the remote, is this indicating some kind of fault and if so, what?

Cheers.

Fr0dders · 18 Apr 2010 at 17:51

my volvo only flahses the once when locked. This is the way it should be on the s40 too i think.

Burnsy2023 · 18 Apr 2010 at 17:57

That's a bug rather than a feature.

Dandle · 18 Apr 2010 at 19:52

R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
I have a friend who's just picked up a '98 reg S40 that continually flashes its indicators if he locks the car with the remote, is this indicating some kind of fault and if so, what?

Cheers.

Do they work normally when its unlocked and while driving?

Howard · 18 Apr 2010 at 19:55

MrLOL said:
my volvo only flahses the once when locked. This is the way it should be on the s40 too i think.

I think that's kinda his point

Dandle · 18 Apr 2010 at 20:01

Seems it will likely be the alarm siren. Just found this. Theres a couple of threads on there about this, new siren seems to fix the problem. They're about £130 from Volvo or £30-40 second hand.

Scania · 19 Apr 2010 at 01:25

Dandle said:
Do they work normally when its unlocked and while driving?

Yes, apparently, they work fine.

Dandle said:
Seems it will likely be the alarm siren. Just found this. Theres a couple of threads on there about this, new siren seems to fix the problem. They're about £130 from Volvo or £30-40 second hand.

Cheers, I'll pass this on to him.

BigglesPiP · 19 Apr 2010 at 01:57

It's likely a completely different system, and of no use me saying this; but my car does this if the battery is particularly flat, but not so flat it won't start the car.

benneh · 9 Apr 2014 at 17:27

*bump*

A friend of mine just purchased an s40 with the same issue. I googled, and wouldn't you know, this was the first search result

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Scania, did you have any joy finding out what the issue was chap?.

cheers.

Edit: Fixed.. For anyone who reaches the thread from google.. There's a switch with a long metal arm located within/rear side of the bonnet catch. Beneath the long metal arm is the actual switch. I gave it a good going over with switch cleaner (wd40 would be fine), cleaned it all up, plunged the switch a bunch of times, and it's working/solved. Failing that; you could remove the metal arm all-together with a pair of pliers or w/e. If the switch isn't activated, the hazard blinking stops.