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Originally Posted by amosfella
There's a lot of computers in the truck that weren't in them before. Many of them cost a lot.
Buddy of mine bought a clean title run and drive truck from salvage auction. Think it was a 19 f150. Truck was mint condition and ran, but was acting all screwy. No climate control, no radio, and all kinds of other problems. Turns out that a cracked tail light let water in, screwed up the blindspot radar in that taillight, and it sent all kinds of funky signals to another computer in the truck, and the whole screw up would have cost about $27k for Ford to replace the computers. I haven't heard the final outcome of this story. I told him there might be places he could send the computers to to repair the circuit boards.
That's why when the farm was looking for a new truck, I didn't want to go newer than a 10 Duramax. Dumb crap like that.
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On two occasions my 2010 GMC lite up the traction control and ABS lights. One time it went into a limp mode and I thought I might be spending the night in the bush. The front wheels/brakes got screaming hot.
Both of these happened in grouse season and I always get the truck tuned up for November. I took it to my mechanic and he couldn't find the issue and accused me of riding the brakes looking for grouse. This was perhaps true but I have been looking for grouse for 40 years without issue.
About two weeks ago on come the lights again. I go home, shut it down and the lights go out, front wheels hot. The next morning it won't shift out of park and the lights are on. If I let it sit the lights go out but if you touch the brake, on comes the lights and of course no shift. I am immediately thinking brake switch and sure enough the brake lights are suddenly not coming on.
Turns out that the brake light switch was causing all these problems all along. It will also cause problems with your torque converter and cruise control as we learned in my son's Ram.
In all fairness, the first and early symptom of brake switch failure is problems with the cruise control. I never use cruise so never got the warning.