I really dont know what happened here. But about 45 minutes ago I parked my car outside a shop to get food. Then I went back to my car to drive home but when I drove home I noticed that the left indicator is blinking much much faster now than before.

I made a video to illustrate it.
YouTube - LGVR0024

What could have happened? Should I take it back to the dealer to check it?

 

Your car is a closet liberal.

-or-

one of your left turn bulbs is burned out.

 

How do you guys know all of this stuff?!

I feel really dumb for making this thread now but one of the three bulbs was burned out. Btw in my defense I did check the lights before! But I just somehow overlooked the front one.

 

fast blink is the usual indicator as the bulbs act like resistors, so if one is out, it'll hyper blink.

 

This has been the way of blinkers since I was a wee one... (at least since the '60s).

 

Well thanks alot guys. I feel really really really dumb now for asking this. I should have double checked the lights before posting.

 

No need to feel dumb, weedhopper. Asking simple question brought much-needed solution, LOL.

 

First car?

There are all kinds of weird little things you learn over time... like turning the heat on full blast can help you limp home/to a garage/to a lit service station if the engine is overheating. (The heater core is a second radiator).

Or, if your dash lights stop working, your taillights are probably out too.

Or if you smell fried chicken, you've probably sucked a bird through the engine (wait, that's on jet airplanes, nevermind!)

On the other hand... do bulbs last an unusually long time these days? I've owned mutliple cars over the past 13 years since getting my license, and admit to being a bit of a car trading whore... yet in that time, I've had to buy two headlight bulbs... period. They seem to last longer than my parent's headlights did when I was a kid.

 

the exotic gas in the light bulb (halogen, xenon) keeps evaporated material from the filament in suspension, and allows it to be redeposited on the filament, thus keeping the filament viable longer. Before halogen the filament evaporated and just condensed on the inside of the glass rather than back on the filament. Google "halogen cycle."

 

and before that very very few cars had signal lights. We were taught to use hand signals. An after market mod was to add a signal light kit. Some ral ugly ones out there that clamped to steering post.

 

Don't mean to pile on..but yeah, on my 1993 Accord..and just about every automobile I've owned made since the 80's a rapid turn signal means a bulb has burned out.