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So….. thanks to the cleverness and generosity of others on forums an YouTube…… and some local dexterity the TT has indicators again. I had to buy some keys to get the stereo out, but otherwise a no parts repair at this point. Keys came from eBay and are really decent knock-offs of the genuine ones at less than 1/10th the price. Thanks to them the stereo came out easily and YouTube revealed how to the extract the switch. It’s easy when you know how but you’d really struggle to work it out on your own. The TT owners forum provided the how-to to get the switch itself to bits This reveals the two relay. The big one on the left is the hazard one. It’s fine. The slimmer one on the right is not and the known failure point. It’s an Omron product and it (or similar) can be bought new and fitted. However as there are two versions of the switch with entirely different relays (both failure-prone), I hadn’t bought a new one. One version has an open frame and the contacts are easy to free up and clean. Obviously mine is the other one. The sealed one…… so it was unsoldered from the board and introduced to Stanley. Stanley doesn’t agree with sealed….….. oh, look….   Not sealed any more! Now these contacts can be gently prised apart, cleaned up and tested. Works just fine. Solder back into the board, take it out to the car and test. Yep. Works fine.    Now I have to reassemble the switch, which is a real head-scratcher as reassembly is definitely NOT the reverse of disassembly! Forum to the rescue again (though only in general terms…. More disassembly needed …. Details are must be figured out for yourself……) Some cussing later and it’s back together, only lightly scarred, and it even still works. Back in the car and the final challenge is that the stereo wants its security code…. Which we do actually have, so victory is secured. Favourite husband status regained! Obviously it remains to be seen how long this field repair will hold for. Probably I should order a new relay to guarantee the original never fails again!

Probably just means something else will get them.....

Congratulations on surviving contact with YDH A & E....... hopefully time spent there was counted in minutes-hours rather than hours - days - weeks.....   My Grandfather broke his collar bone some time in the 80's.  Fell over someone else's dog IIRC (I wasn't there).  He wasn't all that old at the time, but did have various ailments.  There was no operation.  He wore a sling for a long time and complained alot (he wasn't a stoic!).  He had an interesting "bump" feature on his collarbone ever after but I don't recall any lasting loss of function.  Possibly it was a simpler fracture. They are pretty wary of anaesthesia in the elderly these days.  YDH have just spent the last 2.5 years stringing Dad along on the possibility that they might, one day fix his hernia - which would very much improve his quality of life - only to recently decide after about 8 appointments, one admission due to partial strangulation and 4 pre-ops, that it's too big to fix easily/quickly (it wasn't at the outset!) and that he's now too big a risk to anaesthetise.

Enjoy  

Thanks John, i'll enquire at their local hospital. @Gt64fun ouch Ian, that sounds very unpleasant. Looking at the superior health of my inactive female relatives versus all the men with sporting injuries, I'm starting to think you're better off taking life easy instead of exercising.

Understandable, Pete! His fracture is displaced and looks like there is a 'butterfly' fragment, so unstable.   It could fuse and rejoin in that position but with some loss of function, so if they were concerned about your dad,  an anaesthetist might suggest wearing a sling for some time, instead of surgery. If you can arrange it, and your dad's home hospital has one, an appointment at the "Anaesthesia Pre-Assessement Clinic"   might make that easier, and reassure you and your dad.  Talk to your GP? John

Commiserations to your Dad and I hope it heals well. I have a similar tennis related storey. I ended up with a horrible set of grazes on my knees and elbows and a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder, that some three years later is almost better! Us old buggers still think we are young-uns! Ian

Thanks for the sympathy chaps. @Nick Jones we were directed to Yeovil hospital by the NHS 111 people. Surprising to me, after the x-ray they said he could go home and travel back to Lincolnshire, to visit another hospital there for surgery to put the bone back in place. So that's what they've done. Thanks John, I think I'd rather do a wrist or finger though. For my dad I'm more concerned about the operation required to reset the bone, as he was diagnosed with heart failure last year. You'll obviously have a far better understanding of the risks from general anaesthetic than I do, in that regard, but I'm not relaxed about the prospect. And don't think he is either

Probably. The government have done a fairly crappy job jog controlling cable infrastructure. We’ve now got a second company digging the village up to install more cable (Gigaclear did it 6 years ago) and BT putting up more poles because their current poleshare arrangement with the national grid doesn’t meet code and the national grid refuse to upgrade their shitty 1950s tat even though it keeps failing! Also current rules allow “others” to use BT/Openreach infrastructure but this is not reciprocal. Very wasteful