xb1230
Hobby Mechanic
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2014
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- Location
- South Shore of Montreal, QC, Canada
- Ram Year
- 2020
- Engine
- 5.7 HEMI
My lights come on anytime... When the truck is sitting, light switch is off, nothing lighted up or anything the lights just light...
I have plain regular Headlights, so no relays, no HID's, nothing special.
This morning again when I woke up, sure enough the lights were on... Went outside and tried wiggling the light switch, and funny thing is the lights on alarm only goes off if the switch is in the off position and the door is open.
The only way I was able to shut them off was to play with the OBDII port...
WTF ?
A little background on what I think maybe going on:
As I was preparing to go camping (tomorrow morning) I installed a Brake controller (brand new I got from CURT), and a transmission temperature sensor from equus (Mechanical type).
In order to complete the install I had to fiddle around under the dash and fear I may have moved around some wires causing a short of some kind.
How I came around to figuring out it could be the OBDII diagnostic port is that I have an OBDII bluetooth interface I leave connected all the time. thinking it could have gone haywire and caused some issues I pulled it out and sure enough the lights went out. When they came back on later on I just wiggled on the port and sure enough it shut everything down.
I am reviewing the wiring diagram, but they are a little cryptic so any help or insight is welcomed.
What is the link between the OBDII port and the light switch???
I have plain regular Headlights, so no relays, no HID's, nothing special.
This morning again when I woke up, sure enough the lights were on... Went outside and tried wiggling the light switch, and funny thing is the lights on alarm only goes off if the switch is in the off position and the door is open.
The only way I was able to shut them off was to play with the OBDII port...
WTF ?
A little background on what I think maybe going on:
As I was preparing to go camping (tomorrow morning) I installed a Brake controller (brand new I got from CURT), and a transmission temperature sensor from equus (Mechanical type).
In order to complete the install I had to fiddle around under the dash and fear I may have moved around some wires causing a short of some kind.
How I came around to figuring out it could be the OBDII diagnostic port is that I have an OBDII bluetooth interface I leave connected all the time. thinking it could have gone haywire and caused some issues I pulled it out and sure enough the lights went out. When they came back on later on I just wiggled on the port and sure enough it shut everything down.
I am reviewing the wiring diagram, but they are a little cryptic so any help or insight is welcomed.
What is the link between the OBDII port and the light switch???