Electrical Issues

Discussion in 'Lighting' started by Tyler Bosworth, Oct 5, 2020.

  1. Tyler Bosworth

    Tyler Bosworth New Member

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    Hello I am new to this forum. I am having big electrical problems where interior lights flicker and the blind spot detection fault comes on then transmission shifts bad. The next warning is low brake oil every time I hit brakes. Then when I get home the truck eventually dies and all electrical is flashing including lights and door locks. If I wait 20 minutes - truck will start and no issues. But seat setting and steering wheel reset. This only seems to happen when driving on highway and upfitter aux lights are on and seat heaters on. Any ideas?
    It’s still under extended warranty
    2017 Screw all options
     
  2. bravo3eco

    bravo3eco Full Access Member

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    Sounds like you need to let warranty work on it and try to lemon law it. If you are new to gen 2 raptor, do some research on these.... Not the most reliable problem-free vehicles. You may want to get a gen 1 (tried and true 6.2) or wait for the gen 3 which goes back to a V8. Or, just switch over to the RAM TRX.
     
  3. Chris Mac

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    My truck also a 17 started acting weird....electrically turned out it was a rat eating thru my main wire harness.....really pain in the ass took a couple weeks to fix and had to do a full insurance claim...think it was like $6k....good luck still love the truck and would not buy some ram tx whatever
     
  4. UnstableReaction

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    There were many rat reports depending on where you live (made with corn). My 2017 also had issues when driving, but it was a harness was out of the clip. This was much the same result since driving vibration around the clip frayed the harness significantly. Look around the sides on the engine well at the harness travel points.
     

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