Briko03
Junior Member
I have a 2018 1500 that has been giving me some trouble that the dealer hasn't been able to isolate. The problem essentially results in one of two things:
1. The battery is dead and the vehicle wont start (or on multiple occasions its starts and then wont start again when I try to start it after grabbing a coffee which is a short trip)
2. The truck will just shut off on while driving. I have seen a few varying instances of this:
- the auto park disabled will flash
- the auto park disabled will flash and then low voltage battery icon will show up
- the cruise control will just randomly disable
- the lights in the dash will go out and come back on
Then last but most worrisome----
- the vehicle lights will start to flicker for a bit, lights will go out in the dash, then everything will shut off entirely including lights, power steering etc. In this case, I can "fix" this by hooking it up to a battery pack and jumping the car. This has happened at least 5 times now so I am essentially unable to safely drive the vehicle anymore.
On one occasion, the check engine lights came on and I was able to pull the following codes (this only occurred once and hasn't happened again)
P1DF3
P1B14
The dealer said these codes related to transmission.
Here is a summary of what has been done by the dealer:
1 - Battery test
2 - alternator test
3 - replace alternator
I am tempted to think this is electrical and considering buying a multi-meter to test the fuses (using this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DaVy-DPsNY) to see if there is a battery drain occurring but I am very much an novice in this regard and I am not sure if that would cause the shut off issue I described.
Any advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
1. The battery is dead and the vehicle wont start (or on multiple occasions its starts and then wont start again when I try to start it after grabbing a coffee which is a short trip)
2. The truck will just shut off on while driving. I have seen a few varying instances of this:
- the auto park disabled will flash
- the auto park disabled will flash and then low voltage battery icon will show up
- the cruise control will just randomly disable
- the lights in the dash will go out and come back on
Then last but most worrisome----
- the vehicle lights will start to flicker for a bit, lights will go out in the dash, then everything will shut off entirely including lights, power steering etc. In this case, I can "fix" this by hooking it up to a battery pack and jumping the car. This has happened at least 5 times now so I am essentially unable to safely drive the vehicle anymore.
On one occasion, the check engine lights came on and I was able to pull the following codes (this only occurred once and hasn't happened again)
P1DF3
P1B14
The dealer said these codes related to transmission.
Here is a summary of what has been done by the dealer:
1 - Battery test
2 - alternator test
3 - replace alternator
I am tempted to think this is electrical and considering buying a multi-meter to test the fuses (using this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DaVy-DPsNY) to see if there is a battery drain occurring but I am very much an novice in this regard and I am not sure if that would cause the shut off issue I described.
Any advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated.