So I got new aftermarket blinkers to install, but when I went to find the wires (like it says to do on the BCB DVD) I can't find any of them. Could the controls be fried and need to be replaced? The horn works, but not the blinkers. Any ideas?

Your description is not clear......I can't tell for sure what you are having trouble with.

When you say you can't find the wires......and you mention a BCB kit....have you or someone else modified the bike?  Are you installing LED turns signals?

Can you better describe what is going on or post pictures....We have never seen this bike before and have no idea how to help?

Before you mounted your new blinkers, did it have stock blinkers, and did they work? If not I would check and test the wires to see if they give + when they are switched to on. I don't know what it's called in english, but I use the tool in the pic, which is perfect for this kinda job.. If you are not getting any power, the next thing would be to check the blinker relay.

EDIT: Normally the bulbs should be 21w.. if your new led indicators requires more watts, that could be the problem too..

Hey, I recently changed to LED blinkers all around (btw FWIW - they arent as bright as standard bulbs, a few folks around here have made some custom LED blinkers with some wicked bright bulbs if you want to look around)...ok back to my original thought...when I swapped to LEDs I had to double check all my wires (a few were a bit wonky from when the previous owner ghetto bobbed the bike (aka, cut stuff away and stuffed wires everywhere...).

It took me a bit, but I looked at the wiring diagram in the tech section and got things going... but then my blinkers were flashing fast...found this thread (http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1169825737/0) and reply 23 has a good picture of the new flasher. New flasher made my blinkers normal again!!

So, echoing what others have said...check your wires, get power, then install the lights. I would suggest the $9 flasher...took me 2 minutes to install (and who knows this may be your problem to start out with).

Have fun!

Serowbot wrote on 02/11/14 at 08:13:42:


And......the wires for the front turn signals should still be inside the headlight bucket.  There will however be an extra wire (3rd) for each front turn signal as they also had running lights inside the original turns signals.

And yes...those turns signals you bought and the majority of the aftermarket LED turn signals that are made with a large number of tiny LED's don't work all that well in the daylight/sunlight.  There is a company that makes some that are DOT approved - and my thought is that if you want to be safe....the other drivers need to see the turn signal and brake light easily.
http://www.kandstech.com/index.php?page=universalsignals

Ok, so I went out with my BCB DVD and wired everything like it says. I made the pigtail so the blinkers would stay on with Key Power (I didn't have brown wire, so I used blue)  

Left side: Black wire to Red Blinker wire, Black Blinker wire to Brown (blue) Key Power, and Ground to Ground

Right side: Green wire to Red Blinker wire, Black Blinker wire to Brown Key Power, and Ground to Ground

My problem is, that I have Key Power but when I connect the pigtail the blinkers don't light up like they should. They also don't blink, but thats because I don't know if they are getting power anyways... While I was doing the work, I wired in my tail light, and it works!!!! I didn't have the original connector, so I cut it off and put quick-release bullet connectors on the wires. So instead of one plug, theres now three. Now I plugged the tail light into both Key Powers, to make sure they both had power and it worked with both. Thats why Im scratching my head about the blinkers. Does all of that make sense? I don't know if I'm explaining it well enough… The pictures I took are too big to load, so ill try to figure those out later...

They're LED, no bulbs

Im trying to connect them to Key Power though, I read the thread about LEDs and I thought as long as I don't mind them blinking fast they would be fine...