I had lights and turning signals installed at the dealer's on my 2014 1100. When I turn on the right-side turning light, the right-side one blinks but the left-side one comes on and stays on without blinking, both on the dashboard and on the front and rear blinkers. If I turn on the left-side turning light, the left one blinks (both dashboard and front and rear blinkers) and the right one stays on. The dealer said they connected the lights by the book. I don't think so. What do you guys think?
Turning signals mystery
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don bon jovi
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Herman48, I have a 2013 M9960, 2007 B3030, a 2014 RTV 1100 ...all have cabs on them and that is excactly the way they all work also.Must be a Kubota thing.I thought it was weird at first also but they work.I guess it just gives us a little more light when we do use them?! Thanks donbonjovi
Thank you, guys. It is weird, but as long as there isn't a malfunction it's OK. BTW, the manual return of the turning signal takes some getting used to. I keep on forgetting to turn it off after turning--I am so used to modern cars/trucks that turn it off automatically. I still remember my dad's first car. It had a switch in the middle of the dashboard that had to be turned on and off manually, pretty much like the Kubota's.
Keifer
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Herman48
That turn signal thing is a quirk of Kubota. Must have been something to do with their wiring diagram. I guess your 4-ways are working correctly. Others have been wondering what the empty (unused) sockets are on their machines. The best answer I have seen here is that it is a universal wire loom used on all the RTV's.
Bringing back the good old days when turn signals didn't self cancel: Remember when the starter switch was located on the floor board? The gear shift was located on the steering column (3 on a tree). Everyone drove a stick shift. And learned to double clutch. Gas was 30 cents a gallon and didn't ruin engines because of ethanol. Car jacks were something you really could use because you changed flat tires on a semi-regular basis. You kept a spare set of points and condenser in the glove box. oh yes, the good old days.
That turn signal thing is a quirk of Kubota. Must have been something to do with their wiring diagram. I guess your 4-ways are working correctly. Others have been wondering what the empty (unused) sockets are on their machines. The best answer I have seen here is that it is a universal wire loom used on all the RTV's.
Bringing back the good old days when turn signals didn't self cancel: Remember when the starter switch was located on the floor board? The gear shift was located on the steering column (3 on a tree). Everyone drove a stick shift. And learned to double clutch. Gas was 30 cents a gallon and didn't ruin engines because of ethanol. Car jacks were something you really could use because you changed flat tires on a semi-regular basis. You kept a spare set of points and condenser in the glove box. oh yes, the good old days.
Kanook
Active member
Keifer...The distant past is always better when viewed thru rose coloured glasses...I do recall a trip to NYC back in summer 1968 and a fill up somewhere in the vicinity of Albany that cost 22cents / gallon. That darn Fairlane hated to start in winter, %%$$#$@$$ automatic choke.
My first 4-wheel-drive vehicle was a 1948 Jeep pickup. The starter lever was on the floorboard, and the choke was on the dashboard. "Old Yeller" (it was yellow) was my faithful companion in northern Montana from, if I remember correctly, 1978 to 1981. I bought it for 300 dollars and fixed a few things (the front driveshaft needed to be replaced, but I couldn't find one of the right size, so the shop teacher in the Joplin school where my wife taught, got a longer one, cut off a section in the middle and welded it back--and it had a crack on the timing chain cover that leaked oil at an impressive rate; I found a replacement for this and stopped the leak for good). I later traded it in at the Great Falls Jeep dealer's for a brand-new CJ-7. It got me an 800-dollar discount on the new vehicle.
Once my wife needed to drive it to school because the old 1969 Pontiac LeMans we had wouldn't start in -40 weather. She came back almost immediately saying that there was "something wrong with the choke." I went out, looked inside, and saw that the choke knob and its wire were out of the socket in the dashboard, with the wire stretched out and wrapped around the stickshift. I went back home, and all I could say was, "Cathy, did you think you were starting an outboard motor?"
Speaking of choke, the brand-new '81 CJ-7 had an automatic choke, but with those polar temperatures it always got stuck. I guess the bimetallic spring was non made for northern Montana. So I had an old mechanic in Gildford (by then we had moved there from Joplin, only a few miles away) install a manual choke. And every time my wife had to drive it I reminded her not to yank the choke out of the dashboard, getting dirty looks every time!
Once my wife needed to drive it to school because the old 1969 Pontiac LeMans we had wouldn't start in -40 weather. She came back almost immediately saying that there was "something wrong with the choke." I went out, looked inside, and saw that the choke knob and its wire were out of the socket in the dashboard, with the wire stretched out and wrapped around the stickshift. I went back home, and all I could say was, "Cathy, did you think you were starting an outboard motor?"
Speaking of choke, the brand-new '81 CJ-7 had an automatic choke, but with those polar temperatures it always got stuck. I guess the bimetallic spring was non made for northern Montana. So I had an old mechanic in Gildford (by then we had moved there from Joplin, only a few miles away) install a manual choke. And every time my wife had to drive it I reminded her not to yank the choke out of the dashboard, getting dirty looks every time!