Does your OD display dashes all the way across? +more weird stuff fixed please read!
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From: Kitchener, ON
Does your OD display dashes all the way across? +more weird stuff fixed please read!
I have reposted this from another thread in hopes that many don't take the expensive frustrating roads here!
Round One: I had water corrosion in my fuse box a few months ago which caused this problem, but it was my own damn fault! I used the car wash spray wand sometimes to clean the interior of the driver's side. Obviously, this would cause water to splash up underneath there , this before I knew about the windshield/GEM module problems!!! Oops, my bad.
Round Two: But, recently this past weekend, I had a SIMILAR WEIRD problem when I got word that my headlights were still on!
Turns out that the switch was actually off, and the truck locked, and the DRLs were on with the key out along with the ABS light I think and the odometer reading was all dashes across the display. And the check engine light was on I'm pretty sure too. Weird! Was it Christine?
To top it all off, the chime was not working for the lights/belts/or key in ignition, and the engine would crank normally but wouldn't start. At this point the THEFT LIGHT was blinking erratically as well!
So I disconnected the battery for a bit then reconnected it and it started, and everything operated normally WHILE RUNNING, but when I shut it off the gages went weird again like I described above.
I got looking into the manual on the fusebox and on a hunch I removed the #5 RELAY, the accessory delay relay. That solved the DRLs remaining on problem!! but I still had the ABS light and the dashes on the OD with the key off and out.
So I replaced that relay by swapping it with the #4 relay (which are identical BTW), the one-touch-down relay, and horray...everything was normal again! (except for the #4 relay I stole to replace it with...I had no driver's side power window now)
Then I took the faulty #5 relay, placed it in the #4 position, and the power windows worked too...apparently the power windows don't need the faulty part of this relay...
This didn't cost me a cent but an hour of my time! and fixed a potentially costly problem and a dealer throwing parts at it!
Round One: I had water corrosion in my fuse box a few months ago which caused this problem, but it was my own damn fault! I used the car wash spray wand sometimes to clean the interior of the driver's side. Obviously, this would cause water to splash up underneath there , this before I knew about the windshield/GEM module problems!!! Oops, my bad.
Round Two: But, recently this past weekend, I had a SIMILAR WEIRD problem when I got word that my headlights were still on!
Turns out that the switch was actually off, and the truck locked, and the DRLs were on with the key out along with the ABS light I think and the odometer reading was all dashes across the display. And the check engine light was on I'm pretty sure too. Weird! Was it Christine?
To top it all off, the chime was not working for the lights/belts/or key in ignition, and the engine would crank normally but wouldn't start. At this point the THEFT LIGHT was blinking erratically as well!
So I disconnected the battery for a bit then reconnected it and it started, and everything operated normally WHILE RUNNING, but when I shut it off the gages went weird again like I described above.
I got looking into the manual on the fusebox and on a hunch I removed the #5 RELAY, the accessory delay relay. That solved the DRLs remaining on problem!! but I still had the ABS light and the dashes on the OD with the key off and out.
So I replaced that relay by swapping it with the #4 relay (which are identical BTW), the one-touch-down relay, and horray...everything was normal again! (except for the #4 relay I stole to replace it with...I had no driver's side power window now)
Then I took the faulty #5 relay, placed it in the #4 position, and the power windows worked too...apparently the power windows don't need the faulty part of this relay...
This didn't cost me a cent but an hour of my time! and fixed a potentially costly problem and a dealer throwing parts at it!
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From: Southern Maryland
I'd replace all the relays that got wet, or may have gotten wet. Before you get stuck along some deserted country road with engine off, panic switch activated, radio stuck on a station you can't stand, doors and windows locked, with the wiper blades slowly scraping the rubber off them. Could fill a book with the weird stuff I've seen from electrical getting damaged and being "okay".