ChazzieT
Junior Member
So I put my 2015 Ram 2500 Hemi in park at the McDonald's drive thru a couple of nights ago and ended up stuck at the window for 25 minutes trying to shift out of park. Whenever I would pull forward on the shifter, I would hear a clicking from the base of the shifter (inside the steering column) and it wouldn't shift out of park. I finally found the little white lever inside the steering column on the BTSI, and got it home.
On the drive home, I noticed that the CHMSL wasn't lighting up when I hit the brakes, so the next morning I bought a replacement Brake LIght Switch on my way into work and swapped it out when I got home last night. No Joy.
I have since noticed that:
-The taillights light up when I hit the brake pedal, but the CHMSL still doesn't.
-The horn doesn't work.
-The power lock buttons no longer work.
-The courtesy lights flash, but the horn doesn't honk and the doors don't lock when I turn on VTA from the fobik.
-The BTSI won't disengage when triggered by the brake pedal or when triggered by AlfaOBD, only when I press up on the bypass lever.
I hooked up Alfa OBD and read codes:
BCM
B21F8 - Exterior Lighting Power Supply Input 1 open circuit
B1208 - Anti Theft indicater short circuit to ground
B1626 - Cargo Lamp control short circuit to ground
B178E - Headlamp switch input Short circuit to + battery/Open circuit
B1609 - Panel Dimmer input Short circuit to + battery/Open circuit
B162E - Right Low Beam Control circuit High short circuit to + battery/open circuit
B1636 - Right Hi Beam Control circuit High short circuit to + battery/open circuit
B1632 - Left Hi Beam Control circuit High short circuit to + battery/open circuit
ABS
C0040 - Brake pedal switch stuck
C0042 - Brake pedal position sensor short circuit to ground
ECM
P1C4E - ABS DTC Present
P0455 - Evaporator System Large Leak
P0441 - Evaporator Purge System Performance
After clearing these codes, the following codes came back almost immediately:
BCM
B21F8 - Exterior Lighting Power Supply Input 1 open circuit
B1208 - Anti Theft indicater short circuit to ground
ABS
C0040 - Brake pedal swithc stuckl
C0042 - Brake pedal position sensor short circuit to ground
ECM
P1C4E - ABS DTC Present
P0456 - Evaporator System Small Leak (changed from P0455 - Evaporator System Large Leak)
Also, after clearing the codes, the EVIC now shows a message to Check Elecronic Brake System.
I'm suspegting a wiring harnes or connector issue, but don't even know where to start looking.
Any suggestions?
On the drive home, I noticed that the CHMSL wasn't lighting up when I hit the brakes, so the next morning I bought a replacement Brake LIght Switch on my way into work and swapped it out when I got home last night. No Joy.
I have since noticed that:
-The taillights light up when I hit the brake pedal, but the CHMSL still doesn't.
-The horn doesn't work.
-The power lock buttons no longer work.
-The courtesy lights flash, but the horn doesn't honk and the doors don't lock when I turn on VTA from the fobik.
-The BTSI won't disengage when triggered by the brake pedal or when triggered by AlfaOBD, only when I press up on the bypass lever.
I hooked up Alfa OBD and read codes:
BCM
B21F8 - Exterior Lighting Power Supply Input 1 open circuit
B1208 - Anti Theft indicater short circuit to ground
B1626 - Cargo Lamp control short circuit to ground
B178E - Headlamp switch input Short circuit to + battery/Open circuit
B1609 - Panel Dimmer input Short circuit to + battery/Open circuit
B162E - Right Low Beam Control circuit High short circuit to + battery/open circuit
B1636 - Right Hi Beam Control circuit High short circuit to + battery/open circuit
B1632 - Left Hi Beam Control circuit High short circuit to + battery/open circuit
ABS
C0040 - Brake pedal switch stuck
C0042 - Brake pedal position sensor short circuit to ground
ECM
P1C4E - ABS DTC Present
P0455 - Evaporator System Large Leak
P0441 - Evaporator Purge System Performance
After clearing these codes, the following codes came back almost immediately:
BCM
B21F8 - Exterior Lighting Power Supply Input 1 open circuit
B1208 - Anti Theft indicater short circuit to ground
ABS
C0040 - Brake pedal swithc stuckl
C0042 - Brake pedal position sensor short circuit to ground
ECM
P1C4E - ABS DTC Present
P0456 - Evaporator System Small Leak (changed from P0455 - Evaporator System Large Leak)
Also, after clearing the codes, the EVIC now shows a message to Check Elecronic Brake System.
I'm suspegting a wiring harnes or connector issue, but don't even know where to start looking.
Any suggestions?
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