Hi. I'm new to these forums and new to owning a Land Rover too. I promise I'll try to search the forums before asking a question, but I can't find my particular problem talked about, so here it is.

My left turn signal works fine, but when i signal for a right turn the green trailer indicator lights up but none of the blinkers on the right side of Elsa (my D2, named after the lion in Born Free) blink. I know it's probably a bad bulb if the indicator blinks fast, but I don't think that's the case here. I tried looking to see if there was something hooked up so a trailer light would blink instead but to be honest, I'm not really sure what I should look for, or where.

Have any of you encountered this before, or have any idea where I should start in trying to fix it?

ETA: It's a 2000 D2, if that helps.

 

Is the truck rigged to plug in trailer wiring? If so, it may not be with a factory plug into the truck harness. A cheaper converter may have been spliced into the truck harness and poorly done. If spliced, it will be behind right taillight, as I recall. Remove taillight, and factory harness female plug is there. Wires are spliced behind plug. That's my first guess for one blinker out(non-bulb problem).

If you don't have a spliced trailer harness, maybe check wiring under binnacle dash. The binnacle commonly gets loose, perhaps a loose connection or nicked wire.

 

I've never had a vehicle that could tow anything so I'm honestly not sure if it's rigged or not. I did take the taillight off but couldn't make sense of what I saw. Maybe this will help.



The wires going toward the bottom of the photo are the ones connected to the taillight. I'm not sure what that is that's attached to the frame and I have no idea how to remove it.

 

No splices there, that big plug is the factory female plug for connecting a factory trailer wiring kit. Kit runs from that plug to trailer hitch area. That plug is up high to keep out of water if fording a stream. On the cheap, you can splice a cheap converter into that bundle of wires. No damage to blinker wire apparent there. Other than checking the bulb in the taillight, you are finished there.

I would check dash bulb, maybe, and connector there. There are two screws between dash and steering column. Notorious for coming loose. I am not immediately aware if blinkers are on separate circuits/fuses/relays. One more thing, problem could be the turn lever on steering column. Either loose connector or bad lever.

 

Good to know. Thanks, Palmetto.

 

Check your fuses, they did something weird with the DII electrics where I believe everything is split left / right minus trailer. To get it to do what you described would tend to imply that the fuse is blown on that side.

Once you fix that you can move on to trailer light diag if any problems show up or remain there.