Re: Strange electrical problem

From: Don (don@y2kota.us)
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 10:21:28 EDT


Being electrical, My gut feeling says "battery". Is it old? OEM? That
would be a the 1st place I would check. They do funny things as they are
getting to to die.

Don
www.Y2KOTA.us

David Gersic wrote:
> '01 Dakota
>
> Recently, I've noticed something strange happening when I start my truck. It's
> intermittent, but I first noticed that the usual startup chimes from the dash
> were different. Instead of the normal "bing ... bing" it usually does, I get
> "bing ... bi ... bi ... bi ... bing" or something like it's starting, stops,
> and does it again.
>
> The next thing I noticed was that the odometer display goes out when it does
> this.
>
> Third, which I just noticed tonight, is that if I start it with the lights on
> (in the dark), the headlights flash.
>
> It seems like a circuit breaker is opening, then closing again. But it's not
> causing the engine to stall or anything, it starts fine, runs fine, and
> doesn't do it after the initial couple of seconds that it takes to start and
> begin to idle.
>
> Anybody seen anything like this before?
>
>
>
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