RedlandRanger
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This started a couple of days ago and has persisted. It is intermittent but continues to happen and is getting very annoying. What happens is I get an error on the dash for "Blind Spot System Fault" followed almost immediately by a "Cross Traffic System Fault". It will stay there for a bit and then clear itself after a while. And then the cycle repeats. It is not completely regular - meaning it doesn't happen every 30 seconds or every minute or any consistent length of time - but it is consistent enough to occur quite a bit. I just got back from an hour drive and it probably happened 20-30 times during the drive.
A couple of other weird/interesting things happen when this occurs. I have the "cold weather monitor" (snowflake) turned on in Forscan and when this occurs, the snowflake usually appears. Sometimes the temperature readout on the screen will disappear, sometimes not - but the snowflake almost always appears. I've also seen the airbag light come on sometimes when it happens, but that does not happen very often.
I took the taillights out just to see if something had happened to a connection or something - both looked fine other than a lot of dust (I drive a lot of dusty forest service roads)- no damage to the wires - I'm guessing that there may be some mouse damage somewhere - I had a mouse in the truck a while back.
Any ideas for what to look for would be appreciated before I take it somewhere to have it looked at. This is kind of a weird one.....
Also - until I can get this fixed is there a way to turn this off? I haven't seen a setting that turns off blind spot monitoring or cross traffic alerts.
A couple of other weird/interesting things happen when this occurs. I have the "cold weather monitor" (snowflake) turned on in Forscan and when this occurs, the snowflake usually appears. Sometimes the temperature readout on the screen will disappear, sometimes not - but the snowflake almost always appears. I've also seen the airbag light come on sometimes when it happens, but that does not happen very often.
I took the taillights out just to see if something had happened to a connection or something - both looked fine other than a lot of dust (I drive a lot of dusty forest service roads)- no damage to the wires - I'm guessing that there may be some mouse damage somewhere - I had a mouse in the truck a while back.
Any ideas for what to look for would be appreciated before I take it somewhere to have it looked at. This is kind of a weird one.....
Also - until I can get this fixed is there a way to turn this off? I haven't seen a setting that turns off blind spot monitoring or cross traffic alerts.
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