Passive entry not working after wash

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2018 Ram 2500 Laramie passive door handle to unlock not working on passenger side and drivers side not working as well as before.
I took the truck to a wand wash to clean the road slat off it the other day and both door handle passive entry unlock doors were working fine but stopped working after the car wash???
Its been several days since I washed the truck and still not working?
The lock button on the door handle still works fine.

Anybody know why this suddenly happened?
 

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2014- my truck has flashed the park lights and mirror lights since new when I hand wash it.
 
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Maybe its happy we are washing it?
LOL.

I just don't get why the passive entry stopped working on the passenger door when it was working fine before I went to the wand wash (high pressure spray hand wash).
I normally drive through the local touchless automatic wash, but the truck is running during this and the lights don't flash.
 

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4 days after washing the truck the passive door handle unlock is working again.
I hope this is not going to happen every time I use the car hand wash (wand wash) at the local car wash this winter.
 

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4 days after washing the truck the passive door handle unlock is working again.
I hope this is not going to happen every time I use the car hand wash (wand wash) at the local car wash this winter.

It NEVER happened on my wife's 2017 Durango. I can't believe they would have changed anything that drastically.

I would suggest you're getting water intrusion into the system somewhere that's causing it to short out.
 
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