There's a reason I hate electrical

13bighorn · Apr 4, 2016

So I need some help from the 4th gen guys. All of a sudden out of the blue my 2013 hemi has been acting up. If I leave it overnight it's kinda hard to start in the morning. And if it's anything more than like 12 hours it's completely dead. Remote start isn't working anymore either. I'll try it and it only honks once and when I get in it it says remote start disabled. Only thing I have changed on in the past 2 weeks was led reverse light bulbs and a brow. My 8.4 radio also acted up the other day and wouldn't come on no matter what I did, so I drove for 20 mins and shut it off and when I turned it back on it was fine. The puddle lights and marker lighys on the passenger side tow mirror work intermittently also. I'm at 84000km but I got the extended 120000km warranty so it should still be covered? Any help yall have would be great!

baum · Apr 4, 2016

what ever is wrong should be covered. as for the remote start, is your fuel light on? orelse if could be the hood pin

13bighorn · Apr 4, 2016

Nope, 7/8 tank and hood is fully closed. Does the remote start still work when the battery is low?

sbarron · Apr 4, 2016

THe battery/alternator would be the first thing I would check.

Avgas · Apr 4, 2016

Battery

14hemiexpress · Apr 4, 2016

Yeah if it's a factory battery your at the 3 years that they normally last.

13bighorn · Apr 4, 2016

Just started all of a sudden. It's going in Wednesday for warranty work so we will see I guess. Will say what it turns out to be

reek · Apr 4, 2016

My Pontiac G8 went crazy about 3 years in. things, malfunctioning, remote start not working, etc, etc. New battery fixed it immediately. Original wasn't really "dead" but I think it was getting old enough to cause issue. I think the ridiculous amount of electronics on cars these days are voltage sensitive. The smallest drop in battery performance and the various computer components start not cooperating, all of the sudden.

It seems a little OCD, but I now have a battery tender/trickle charger plug on all of my vehicles in case I have a slow week and don't drive every day or if I take the bike.

baum · Apr 5, 2016

the joys of batteries that only last a couple years and cars that are so sensitive to voltage change.

13bighorn · Apr 6, 2016

So the dealer had it today, they said it was deader than dead when they tried starting it, could of told them that was gonna happen. So they reprogrammed the radio and put a new battery in it and they figured that would do it. But it is still doing the same thing so next up is the clock Spring. My question is what does the clock spring do?

sbarron · Apr 6, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jv2DW39drA

13bighorn · Apr 8, 2016

Clock spring didn't do **** either. So I'm in a rental till they get it fixed. Isn't too bad, a jeep grand cherokee

EDIT:
clock spring might fix it they're not sure yet. And it's gonna be 400$ for the battery because it all of a sudden isn't under warranty. ****** crooks

13bighorn · Apr 26, 2016

So I still haven't gotten my truck back. Cluster, clock spring, radio reprogram, battery and now a bcm and they still haven't gotten it. It's getting pretty close to me telling them to buy it back or put me in a different truxk on the lot.

Hootbro · Apr 26, 2016

You got a parasitic electrical draw. Any tech worth their salt should be able to find it.

13bighorn · Apr 26, 2016

They have their "top guy" on it and he can't find the real cause of it

Hootbro · Apr 26, 2016

13bighorn said:
They have their "top guy" on it and he can't find the real cause of it

Then their top guy is worthless and they have mechanics and not technicians there . Seriously, you could teach an eighth grade kid in an hour to do a parasitic draw test and isolate down to the system circuit.

13bighorn · May 2, 2016

They had to talk to engineers to figure it out. Linked jt back to my heater controls were coming on while the truck was off. Replaced them and we're good sofar. However now my cluster randomly turns off and on

There's a reason I hate electrical

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