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LandyManLuke's first post was a real life-saver (OK, so nobody was likely to actually DIE, but I might have been terribly inconvenienced). I've been having trouble with the indicators on my 110 for a couple of weeks and I suspected the hazard switch because (a) the indicator stalk is relatively new and (b) they worked better if I held in the front of the hazard switch. So this evening, I decided that I'd better have a look at the switch and set about it with some contact cleaner. But when I pulled the switch plate off, the hazard switch disintegrated before my very eyes. The body of the switch, where the two halves latch together, has broken, so it's for the bin. But of course, no hazard switch means no indicators. With the aid of the description and diagrams in Luke's post and the judicious use of my 100W soldering iron, I have working indicators again. No hazards, of course, until I get a new switch but the MOT's not for another 11 months yet ;-) In case it helps anyone else out needing an emergency fix, I cut away the corner of the switch at the light switch supply wire (just the plastic shroud, leaving the terminal in place) so that I could get in with my soldering iron. I bent the switch contact from the permanent supply terminal out of the way. Cleaned up the light switch supply terminal and the switch contact from the Supply to Flasher pin (it's obvious when you look at it in conjunction with Luke's pinout). A bit of flux and the application of a hefty iron and I simply soldered the Supply to Flasher terminal to the Light Switch Supply terminal. I plugged this back into the loom, discarding the rest of the broken switch and, voila! Working indicators again. And not a Bodgelok in sight.