Re: Power locks gone bonkers

From: Chad Evans (hemidak@msn.com)
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 21:25:15 EDT


maybe you have supernatural forces at work.
lol

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Bleazard" <jason.dml@bleazard.net>
To: "dakota-truck" <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 8:24 PM
Subject: DML: Power locks gone bonkers

>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has had this happen. Our power locks have
> decided to start operating on their own. Usually they decide to
> randomly unlock the doors while driving, or worse, in the middle of the
> night. I've seen it happen, sometimes it gets so insistent that you
> can't keep the doors locked. I also saw it once decide to lock the
> doors on me and set the security alarm when I was sitting in the truck
> cleaning out the glove box with the engine off.
>
> I thought maybe I was accidentally pressing the remote buttons in my
> pocket, so I dug it out and the truck kept locking and unlocking at
> random. Besides, when it locked, it didn't honk the horn like it does
> when you use the remote.
>
> I'm wondering if maybe the battery in the remote is getting low, and
> it's going bonkers and sending out all kinds of random garbage. Easy
> enough to check: take the batteries out. Anything else we can check
> ourselves before taking it to the dealer? As it's an intermittent
> thing, I'm sure they'll just tell me they looked at it for a whole
> second and a half and couldn't re-create the probem.
>
> Footnote: there are some days when I really like having the modern
> conveniences, and there are some days when I think it's just more junk
> to break. Anyone who's been around long enough probably remembers what
> a battle Norah had dragging me kicking and screaming in to the world of
> power windows. My '95 has power NOTHING: I lock my own doors, roll up
> my own windows, adjust my own mirrors and even shift my own gears, and
> all that stuff stays right where I put it. I like the power stuff when
> it works, but I have second thoughts about all of it when it breaks down.
>
> --
> Jason Bleazard http://www.bleazard.net Toronto, Ontario
> his: '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white
> hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab, black
>
> Didn't you read the disclaimer? http://www.they.com/disclaimer
>
>



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