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  • Correct. The Brown wire should be hot when the lights are on. It is the power feed to the light. The Brown wire that has the white stripe is the ground wire and it is turned on/off by the turn signal switched. That is known as a ground side switched system and is very common on vehicles. Now you need to look at the Brown wire with the white stripe on it. In normal operation it isn’t connected to anything. When you turn the switch so the right hand turn signal comes on, then the wire should be grounded. As you have power on the other wire the problem is in the Brown wire with white stripe.
    You cannot just ground the light so it stays on because that wouldn’t be the correct operation of that light.
    You are doing fine so far, electrical diag claims a few brains every year… LOL
    I don’t think it’s the socket. An easy way to test that, find the pin that the brown w/white wire goes into the plug, connect the test lights clamp to the battery positive post, now turn on the key and turn on the right hand turn signal. Now go to that plug and touch the connector pin that the brown w/white wire connect to. Does the light come on? If it does then it is in the lamp housing, but I’m betting it doesn’t.
    You already know that the ground point is OK, because the turn signals and the other turn light work. So it has to be from the switch out to the light. Follow that brown w/white stripe wire from the plug back in the harness and I’m betting you find the problem

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  • That usually indicates a circuit issue. Cold makes things shrink and retract. Once it runs for a while does it clear up? If so the time it takes could help you find the problem. First area to heat up would be under the hood. Next would be the heater core and out from it. I would start from there. Say you start it and it takes like 5 minutes before it corrects, that would likely be something in the engine bay. You might be able to toss a scan tool on it and see what the various temperature sensors show during warm up. Toss a portable heater in the cabin, with it warm inside does it still act up? Discover it’s likely under the hood (most likely) take a heat gun and use it on each component and see if it changes. I would look at the crank sensor, cam sensor(s) intake throttle body and the MAF as those could all cause that problem. If you start it and heat up the crank sensor and it runs better, you have a winner!










  • Grab a set of jumper cables. Connect the negative side between the battery negative and a good ground on the engine. Any change? Next take the Positive cable and connect it between the battery positive and the battery power connection near the fuse box. Try it again. Any change? If either one makes a change then go to the other end of the cable on the car and clean it and try. The cables corrode at both ends.