chefred112
Senior Member
- Joined
- Oct 13, 2010
- Posts
- 531
- Reaction score
- 108
- Location
- Tracy, CA
- Ram Year
- 2005 QC 2wd
- Engine
- 392 Hemi
Here's a weird one for me. Going out to lunch, hopped in my truck, flipped the key and nothing...i was able to use key fob to unlock the door but after that the key fob didn't work, nor did the lock switch, no lights, no dash lights with the key in and turned..dead... so I go and pop the hood and decide to remove battery cable to hard restart everything, I also pulled the pcm fuse (23), then reinserted it, and reattached the batt cable. I knew there was power now because my windshield wipers did a single cycle when cable was reattached (note: battery is less than a month old)... so back incab, she fires up fine, go to lunch and come back ok.
Later in the afternoon I go out to my truck to get something and sure enough, key fob doesn't unlock so I knew it was dead again (no lights, no dash lights).. so I decided to pull the battery cable for a couple minutes and then reattach...still dead... earlier I had texted some ram buds to get their take on it and one of them said to replace/swap the pcm fuse for another, said that although it doesn't look like it burnt out, sometimes it 'wears' out. So I swap that 15 amp fuse with one for the pedal adjustment (i don't have a pedal that adjusts so it was a spare to me)... sure enough, it starts... I'm about to leave to go home so I'll see if this weirdness returns... truck has over 309K miles on it and I've never run into this before...interesting indeed
Later in the afternoon I go out to my truck to get something and sure enough, key fob doesn't unlock so I knew it was dead again (no lights, no dash lights).. so I decided to pull the battery cable for a couple minutes and then reattach...still dead... earlier I had texted some ram buds to get their take on it and one of them said to replace/swap the pcm fuse for another, said that although it doesn't look like it burnt out, sometimes it 'wears' out. So I swap that 15 amp fuse with one for the pedal adjustment (i don't have a pedal that adjusts so it was a spare to me)... sure enough, it starts... I'm about to leave to go home so I'll see if this weirdness returns... truck has over 309K miles on it and I've never run into this before...interesting indeed