As I mentioned last time, something felt odd with the steering. And it felt like it became worse, mostly in the cornering and when breaking or if the road was uneven. It definately did not feel right and even I was slightly scared when driving. Then I discovered the rear left tyre was nearly flat. No! that explained a lot why it was handling so strange. Not sure if this tyre had also a broken air valve. In any case, when pumped again it remained full since. Although the steering improved it still was not good. Again, mostly when cornering and breaking it felt like it was pulling on my steering wheel.
So I did inspect this further. I checked again all the nuts on the right side. I was able to tighten up the steering rod screw and the lower ball joint a little more. I suspected this would do the trick. But no. Then I checked the left side and was shocked to discover that the lower ball joint was not tighten at all, the nut was still on the end of the thread. Not sure what or how this happened. In any case, that explains this steering issue. So when tightened up all felt good again. Phew!
Next the intermittent indicator issue is back again. Very annoying as 90% of the time it simply does not function. Previously I swapped out the relais and initially it looked like that solved the problem:
https://erwinkappa.blogspot.com/2026/03/failing-direction-indicator-kc-24-badges.html
So I need to do some further troubleshooting on how to solve this.
And lastly I had a light failure on the right headlight. That should have been an easy fix but the connector did not want to come off. In fact it ruined the faulty lightbulb even furhter as the pin broke off and the connector unit broke in two pieces. Sigh!
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I bought a new pair of light bulbs and replaced them both. The other side went smooth luckily.
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