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Matt
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11/07/2007
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Hi everyone! I recently bought a 1999 Dakota sport with a 5.2L V8. I got it from a dodge dealer with an after market 6-cd changer installed by the previous owner. About a week after I had it, the ABS and BRAKE light came on upon starting the ignition. These lights didn't stay on and didn't come on all the time. On top of that, the interior dome lights click on and off rapidly at times upon ignition. Furthermore, the door locks will randomly lock/unlock when it rains (i think i read about this being a general defect). I don't drive it much, but the last time i drove it (about 100 yards to my neighbors house) all of the gauges on the dash went to zero, the check engine light came on, and the low fuel warning light came on. Before I could pull into my driveway the gauges all went back to normal.
I think that's all the problems I'm having. If anyone has any idea what this could be, please let me know. I took it into the shop this past Monday to get diagnostics and haven't heard anything yet. My guess is that it has to do with whoever installed the cd player, but who knows....Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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searay245se
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11/07/2007
17:44:05
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i just posted the other day havin somewhat the same prob but all my gauges died and lights came on and said no bus in odometer truck still runs ok though so there is a tsb about this on the intermitint doing this the fix is to replace one of the plugs that plugs the gauge cluster to the dash cost about 30 bucks at the stealership did it to mine today did not help my gauges are still all dead tryin something else tomorrow swappin clusters with a friends truck will let u know what i find out tomorrow night sometime
jeff searay245se S&S MOTORSPORTS
99 dak slt cc 3.9 auto 4x4 60k
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RadioMan
Dodge Dakota
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11/08/2007
06:54:14
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Matt, get it back to the stealership and tell them
the problem. I would guess you have at least a 30
day warrenty. If the stealership can't find the
problem OR is doesn't act up at the time they are
working on it at least you'll have it on paper
that you are having this problem within the 30
day warrenty. Something you can fall back on when
your problem does not clear on its own.
I would *guess* at this point you either have a
"CTM" or a grounding problem. It's gonna show its
ugly head sooner or later... You're luckey your
headlights are not going off ....... yet.
I STILL say, electronics does NOT belong in autos.
Just too many spikes, sags, surges etc to deal
with. Great idea (on paper) to control your
engine, lights etc but NOT when it has control
with safety items like headlights, door locks
and now in some autos, "fly by wire" and other
JUNK that goes wrong with the crap they are
building today.
Just my two cents worth...
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searay245se
Dodge Dakota
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11/08/2007
07:56:58
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might want to check this out too tells away to make the cluster run a bunch of checks on itself didnt try it yet but goin out to try it today before i do anything else this seems to be a common prob on these years daks and im suprized no one has really came up with more answers on here but u dont do it till ya need it and with my dak broke i need it
http://www.v8performance.com/tipsandtricks.htm#1999mil
jeff searay245se S&S MOTORSPORTS
99 dak slt cc 3.9 auto 4x4 60k
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searay245se
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11/08/2007
09:56:04
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matt found the problem on my 99 dak after alot of bs and research seems dodge in there infanite wisdom has run a wire harness over the top on the emergency brake pedal and when u use it the teeth on it cut into the wires and ground out the bus feed wire its either a purple wire or white/black strip found both rubbed through on mine proly grounds it out on the e brake teeth and stops signal have to pull the e brake to get to it not top hard to do but if u look up in there with a light u should be able to see the teeth rubbin on the harness hope this helps with your fixed mine right up everything is normal again
jeff searay245se S&S MOTORSPORTS
99 dak slt cc 3.9 auto 4x4 60k
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matt
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11/08/2007
10:34:13
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Thanks everyone! The guy that's looking at it for me had to order a part that he thinks will fix it. He also said he would have to go into the dash to fix it. I'll let him know about the other possible causes as well. Thanks again!
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