What wires were you running to the tailgate? Were you installing an electronic tailgate lock?
Yes, I was installing the factory power tailgate lock then.
Another update to the problem, seems that their fix wasn't great. Put 1200 miles on last week and the abs/esp started freaking out again.
Just got back last night and havn't looked at their repair yet - but I'm guessing they used some kind of splice connectors rather than soldering and shrink tubing.
Just dropped off at the dealer this morning for the 4th time, this time they want to keep it for a couple days.
1st try) Thought it was a damaged wire, cut out and replaced a 6" section at the RR Sensor
2nd try) Still thinking it's a damaged wire, replaced the connector and a few feet of wire at the RR sensor
3rd try) Updated the ABS program
4th try)?? They have some stuff to check from their factory tech rep. I sure hope they figure it out this time, otherwise I might have to get a little more serious about this problem.
I think you should have been serious from the start man. Brakes!!!!! I would be more concerned about my brakes having a chronic problem. How many times do you guys have to bring a vehicle in for he same prob before the lemon law comes into effect. Here in Canada we don't have the Lemon Law but I have heard of people getting their money back after a serious problem but it has to be a major safety issue that cannot positively be fixed. I wish we had the lemon law then maybe Chrysler would force these dealers to send their techs for training on the new vehicle issues. Seems a lot of confusion and questions, like they have to call the engineer at the factory etc. Like it is scarey to go to the dealer.
For your sake I hope decide to completely change out the whole harness they keep splicing, in fact it's a new truck is it not I WOULD DEMAND IT....WARRANTY.
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09 Sport Ram, Hemi 4x4...no power adds, pace edwards power locking tailgate, updated from to REN My Gig and added the uconnect module....required Star scan at the dealer//bad experience 14 hours 2 dealers.
4 times is the lemon law limit in MN. At that point you can start the arbitration process. If this time doesn't fix it, I'm going to request that they replace the full harness, controller and all wheel sensors. I don't want my money back or a different truck because I'd have to get a 2010 which doesn't have the lifetime powertrain.
As far as it being a safety issue - not yet. I've been able to shut it off when it acts up, don't really care about the ABS but I need the traction control to work when the snow starts sticking around.
Hopefully they have it figured out now. They just called and said they need the truck for one more day. They swapped the rear wheel sensors side to side and then drove the truck until the lights came back on. Scanner said that it was the left rear wheel this time, so the fault followed the sensor.
New sensor comes in tommorrow and hopefully that is the end of it.
So far so good. Got my truck back yesterday and no lights in 100 miles. The dealer had put 140 miles on the truck while they had it, trying to get the intermittant problem to occur after they made various fixes. In the end it was just a bad wheel sensor.
