Parasitic draw - Door modules or RF module ??

[Snowlover]

12/11 took 2015 Ram Longhorn 3500 to dealer for airbag recall. maybe a week later, battery was dead. Charged it, it lasts several days and was dead again. Rinse and repeat for 2 week. Battery test with bad cell, replace it thinking it could not hold charge. Alt. tests @ 14.3. Also, when walking my dogs past truck on the passenger side only, with fob in pocket, door locks started activating for no reason. Electrician friend suggested to return to dealer to review any damage they could have done. Dealer ignored my door lock/key fob issue and scan showed bad battery sensor. $800 dollars later, i drove it for a week and voila, same issue. Take it back, free scan and they report it COULD? be my RF module and wants another $600. Took truck home. Found a "recommended scan shop" and they reported they would find the issue. $220 later, they report it is door modules and estimate &1,500 parts and labor.

Now truck is home, trying to use micro amp tests to find circuit, but not definitive. Labor for these installs is no big deal so I will do it. This shop reports B2861-15 and B2860-15 on both doors.

I plan to start at passenger door as that is the airbag they replaced and where the locks start activating on their own when I pass by. Plan to get off door panel and unplug module to determine if that is the volt draw.

Any others have a similar problem they were able to solve with these code?

 

[GTyankee]

May i suggest that you go to Walmart, Best BUY, a Men's ONLY Store, maybe any place that carries Electronics.

Maybe even use your phone to inquire about

Faraday Pouches
one that is just large enough to fit your FOB into.
Faraday Pouches BLOCK Radio Waves

You may not be aware of FOBs are constantly communicating with the Vehicles Main Computer through the Radio Frequency Module, or the Body Control Module ??

I am not a person that knows beans about Electronics
so i don't know just what communicates with what

I do know that my Spare FOB's circuit board shorted out, it was in my apartment, several feet away from the Ram, but my Ram's Horn was beeping every few seconds.
I took the battery out, the Ram stopped beeping.

Now my Spare FOB's Battery is in a Baggy, along with the FOB, but the Battery is NOT installed

 

[Burla]

I guess your rich, I would have raised such a stink they would have to fix it or arrest me. 99% it is their airbag recall that caused this. Hard part is to find someone other then dealer who can legally diagnose this. and then they charged you 800? You made my day I feel better now that when I did my recall for UCL's my front end squeaked when it was rock solid prior. I hate recalls, more often then not something else gets screwed up.

 

[Snowlover]

There not done with me. If proven it is just the passenger door module, I be at their front sales office demanding I get service done correctly while any customer there hears my story.

 

[Snowlover]

Duplicate. Sorry

 

[GTyankee]

When i go to my dealership, it used to be a very good dealership when it comes to the Service Dept.

Now when i go there, the top Service Writer asks if i am having a Good or BAD day.
If i say, its a Bad day, he calls the Manager of the Service Dept.
I raised more than my Eye Brows in that area a couple of times.

They ask me to walk over to what is the Unofficial Smoking area.
Then ask me what they can do for me.

I have never raised my Voice or threatened anyone that works in that area, but i must have got my point across a time or two.
By the way, i always take the Service Dept. & Parts Dept.
2 dozen donuts when i want something done.

 

[62Blazer]

I would tell the dealer they need to fix the issue. If there were no issues prior to having the recall done, and now you have an issue specific to that area, they need to fix it. And if you have a problem, they charge you $800 for the repair, but they didn't actually fix it.....I would either demand a refund and/or tell them to actually fix the problem at no additional cost.
With that said, I understand that just because a shop worked on one particular problem that doesn't mean that any other random problem that pops up later is because of it. But in this case in does sound suspicious that the original recall work on the problem are related.