Waggs160
Junior Member
I have a 2018 ram v6.
I live in sw Fl and had to drive through water up to my doors to get to work. After the storm I noticed the lights would turn on about a minute after I locked the doors. I checked everything that you would normally think of. A door ajar. The button pressed on but it’s none of those things. So after a few days it stopped but now it will turn on when I’m driving. Sometimes it turns on and stays on sometimes it turns on then turns off on its own. Other times it flickers. Today leaving work I was walking to my truck and saw they were on but then they turned off. Before I could get my keys out of my bag they turned on again.
I’m assuming there’s a short somewhere.
Can one point me in the right direction please I don’t want to come out to a dead battery one morning. I’ve been disconnecting the battery and it’s becoming a pain.
FIXED! Just posting incase someone else runs into the same issue.
So being that the truck didn’t come with an owners manual when I bought it I didn’t even think to look at one. So anyway I was looking at on online and saw that there was a switch in the bed for the lights. I had no clue. I bedlined the truck and must have never noticed it. So the problem was the rubber seal on the bed side of the switch had a crack in it and water was sitting inside the switch. I unplugged it and problem solved. Now to get an aftermarket one because the oem is over priced.
I live in sw Fl and had to drive through water up to my doors to get to work. After the storm I noticed the lights would turn on about a minute after I locked the doors. I checked everything that you would normally think of. A door ajar. The button pressed on but it’s none of those things. So after a few days it stopped but now it will turn on when I’m driving. Sometimes it turns on and stays on sometimes it turns on then turns off on its own. Other times it flickers. Today leaving work I was walking to my truck and saw they were on but then they turned off. Before I could get my keys out of my bag they turned on again.
I’m assuming there’s a short somewhere.
Can one point me in the right direction please I don’t want to come out to a dead battery one morning. I’ve been disconnecting the battery and it’s becoming a pain.
FIXED! Just posting incase someone else runs into the same issue.
So being that the truck didn’t come with an owners manual when I bought it I didn’t even think to look at one. So anyway I was looking at on online and saw that there was a switch in the bed for the lights. I had no clue. I bedlined the truck and must have never noticed it. So the problem was the rubber seal on the bed side of the switch had a crack in it and water was sitting inside the switch. I unplugged it and problem solved. Now to get an aftermarket one because the oem is over priced.
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