Hrothgar
Junior Member
Hi all new guy here. Just recently picked up a 2010 1500 5.7L Laramie. Was fine when I got it but immediately started having problems. Dead cluster (no lights or gauges) and wipers running non stop was the first sign. We were out and had to drive it home so I pulled the wiper fuse. If I recall the cluster started working on the way home and seemed fine for a day maybe. Sans wipers of course. Day later the cluster was dead again.
Google searching pointed to the TIPM, so i did the reset thing by disconnecting the battery and touching the wires together. Waited 30 mins and reconnected the battery and started it up. All seemed good. I shut it off and put the wiper fuse back in while patting myself on the back for a job well done. Started it again because I cant leave well enough alone and... wipers. Non. Stop. Mocking me. I had cluster lights (no gauges) but the lights were flickering and a had horrible noise from the dash that I can only describe as shrill enough to cut glass and end marriages. I shut it off. Hasn't been driven I a week now.
Well I figured I must have corrosion in the TIPM as the google said, so tonight i took the tipm out (after disconnecting both battery cables) No corrosion in any of the connectors. Brought the tipm inside and carefully disassembled it. What I found was both shocking and disheartening all at once. Not a lick of corrosion. Nowhere. Everything looked perfect. Got it back together making sure to get all the fuses back in the right place after testing each one, took it back to the truck, hooked it back up using dielectric grease on the connectors, connected the battery and tried to start the truck.
Same dead cluster. Same sound from the dash straight out of your worst nightmare. I shut it off. Went inside for a little while, googled a little more and then went out to try the truck again. This time it was all dark. Not even dome lights. Some lights around the radio but nothing else. Moved the dimmer wheel to turn dome lights on, nothing. Tried to turn headlights on, nothing. No parking lights either. Truck starts and runs fine. Horrible sound is gone, so I'm calling that a win but I feel like it'll come back from visiting it's mother any day now.
Anyone have any experience or know what I should try next? I'd throw another tipm at it in a second if this one seemed as if it had so much as looked at pictures of corrosion in some kind of magazine that it claimed to only read for the articles. Ive tried almost nothing and I'm out of ideas.
Much appreciated if you made it this far.
Google searching pointed to the TIPM, so i did the reset thing by disconnecting the battery and touching the wires together. Waited 30 mins and reconnected the battery and started it up. All seemed good. I shut it off and put the wiper fuse back in while patting myself on the back for a job well done. Started it again because I cant leave well enough alone and... wipers. Non. Stop. Mocking me. I had cluster lights (no gauges) but the lights were flickering and a had horrible noise from the dash that I can only describe as shrill enough to cut glass and end marriages. I shut it off. Hasn't been driven I a week now.
Well I figured I must have corrosion in the TIPM as the google said, so tonight i took the tipm out (after disconnecting both battery cables) No corrosion in any of the connectors. Brought the tipm inside and carefully disassembled it. What I found was both shocking and disheartening all at once. Not a lick of corrosion. Nowhere. Everything looked perfect. Got it back together making sure to get all the fuses back in the right place after testing each one, took it back to the truck, hooked it back up using dielectric grease on the connectors, connected the battery and tried to start the truck.
Same dead cluster. Same sound from the dash straight out of your worst nightmare. I shut it off. Went inside for a little while, googled a little more and then went out to try the truck again. This time it was all dark. Not even dome lights. Some lights around the radio but nothing else. Moved the dimmer wheel to turn dome lights on, nothing. Tried to turn headlights on, nothing. No parking lights either. Truck starts and runs fine. Horrible sound is gone, so I'm calling that a win but I feel like it'll come back from visiting it's mother any day now.
Anyone have any experience or know what I should try next? I'd throw another tipm at it in a second if this one seemed as if it had so much as looked at pictures of corrosion in some kind of magazine that it claimed to only read for the articles. Ive tried almost nothing and I'm out of ideas.
Much appreciated if you made it this far.
