So I’ve already had my battery die 4 times on me in a year - 2 warm weather, 2 cold weather. Today was number 4.
Story goes like this. When I got home yesterday an update came up but when I tapped install (in my driveway, parked, after I got home from 4 hours of driving around) it said it couldn’t complete at that time even though it had just popped up after I parked. Later, I noticed some weird stuff whenever I’d get in the vicinity of the truck (leaving/coming home in my wife’s car) the lights flashed 4 or 5 times with no key presses, but no horns, no mirror folding, nothing. Key fobs still worked at that time because I relocated just in case. Last time I brought it in for recalls, I tried to schedule electrical evaluation the same day because of the dead batteries and they told me they needed a few days to search for an electrical problem, but had no loaners so I had to schedule for the future.
Today, tried to remote start x2 via app with no luck - usually no problems. Tried it from both key fobs, nothing. Doors wouldn’t open, had to manually turn the key to get inside. Dash was completely dead when I opened the door. Jumped it and it turned on with various errors I’ve seen before the last times such as “service steering column lock,” “abs failure speed limited to 47 mph” ….and subsequently 35 mph, but a new one about power steering being out flashed up and went away. The battery was DEAD because I had to wait about 3 minutes with my charger on before the dash would stay up and it’s an 80000mAh battery jumper so it powers the truck by itself usually - the last few jumps at least.
So we were started. I began driving down the driveway…Welp, power steering is dead. Then, as I tried to figure out what was next, the dash said “power steering failure. No assist soon.” Service doesn’t open until 9, but essentially it’ll need to be towed in, but I’m done playing nice. This is ridiculous for a $70,000+ truck. I logged in today to 3 posts of trucks in the shop for weeks with various repairs. This is unacceptable for such expensive trucks.
Wondering if anybody else has been having severe electrical issues like this…?
Story goes like this. When I got home yesterday an update came up but when I tapped install (in my driveway, parked, after I got home from 4 hours of driving around) it said it couldn’t complete at that time even though it had just popped up after I parked. Later, I noticed some weird stuff whenever I’d get in the vicinity of the truck (leaving/coming home in my wife’s car) the lights flashed 4 or 5 times with no key presses, but no horns, no mirror folding, nothing. Key fobs still worked at that time because I relocated just in case. Last time I brought it in for recalls, I tried to schedule electrical evaluation the same day because of the dead batteries and they told me they needed a few days to search for an electrical problem, but had no loaners so I had to schedule for the future.
Today, tried to remote start x2 via app with no luck - usually no problems. Tried it from both key fobs, nothing. Doors wouldn’t open, had to manually turn the key to get inside. Dash was completely dead when I opened the door. Jumped it and it turned on with various errors I’ve seen before the last times such as “service steering column lock,” “abs failure speed limited to 47 mph” ….and subsequently 35 mph, but a new one about power steering being out flashed up and went away. The battery was DEAD because I had to wait about 3 minutes with my charger on before the dash would stay up and it’s an 80000mAh battery jumper so it powers the truck by itself usually - the last few jumps at least.
So we were started. I began driving down the driveway…Welp, power steering is dead. Then, as I tried to figure out what was next, the dash said “power steering failure. No assist soon.” Service doesn’t open until 9, but essentially it’ll need to be towed in, but I’m done playing nice. This is ridiculous for a $70,000+ truck. I logged in today to 3 posts of trucks in the shop for weeks with various repairs. This is unacceptable for such expensive trucks.
Wondering if anybody else has been having severe electrical issues like this…?
