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Location: Texas | I have a '07 F-250 diesel. It has been a really good truck but has recently gone haywire on me.
I will be driving down the road and I will lose all of my dash gauges, and lose all the lights in the dash. Radio stops working, windows stop working, my electronic thing won't tell me how much gas I have etc. If I get gas while it isn't working it never registers that I have gotten gas at all when the dash gauges and lights come back on. Then sometimes it says I have way more gas then I should.
Sometimes when I turn the truck off none of the lights go off, running lights, head lights, dash lights, radio... and I am standing beside the truck with the keys in my hand and nothing has shut off. It took me 10 minutes one time of messing with it just for it to register that it needed to turn everything off.
If you start the truck and the dash gauges don't come on it automatically puts itself into 4-wheel drive, and you can't make it go into 2 wheel drive unless you turn it off and start it until the lights come on, even if they go right back off as long as they start initially the truck runs fine. If not it is in 4WD and spits and sputters.
Sometimes I go out and it just flat won't start. I don't know if it is because I am having an issue with lights turning off or what. Oh and the other night in the middle of the night it started by itself. We have a Viper alarm system with the remote start, and the keys were on my night stand beside my bed.
So what the heck happened? My husband has some theories, but I'm just asking to see if maybe someone thinks it could be something else.
ETA: Heading to my kid's soccer game, so it will be a little bit before I reply.
Edited by pinx05 2013-11-22 5:26 PM
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The Advice Guru
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| I am not a diesel mechanic, but what you are experiencing has nothing to do with your truck being a diesel.
I am guessing the computer is fried.
Or the wiring harness melted together.
I would suggest taking it to a ford dealer and get them to hook it up to the computer and read the codes |
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Location: Kentucky | My husband says body control module. He said to look up and make sure there was not a recall on that year and issue. |
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Chicken Chick
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Location: Texas | cheryl makofka - 2013-11-22 5:35 PM I am not a diesel mechanic, but what you are experiencing has nothing to do with your truck being a diesel. I am guessing the computer is fried. Or the wiring harness melted together. I would suggest taking it to a ford dealer and get them to hook it up to the computer and read the codes
I didn't know if it made a difference whether it was diesel or not. |
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Chicken Chick
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Location: Texas | slmustang - 2013-11-22 8:05 PM My husband says body control module. He said to look up and make sure there was not a recall on that year and issue.
Thanks.
We are going to take it to a shop but we like to at least have a good idea of what is wrong with our vehicles before we take them in so we don't have to pay for a bunch of trial and error. |
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| First thing I would change out is the ignition switch .... it can make your truck do all the things you describe ... |
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| BARRELHORSE USA - 2013-11-22 8:45 PM
First thing I would change out is the ignition switch .... it can make your truck do all the things you describe ...
30 years ago that would be awesome advice.
Today, not so much.
BCM is most likely the culprit
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Open your doors and spray WD-40 all over your lock mechanism, the corrosion from rust is blocking connection. Open and close about 7 times. |
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