Delirious
Well-Known Member
I had this problem when I first got my 19 XLT. Two days of not driving it the battery is dead. It's called a parasitic draw. I lost the controls on the steering wheel. Jumpstart would work and the car truck would drive every day but if I went to days without a drive it was dead. You can test the voltage every 12 hours. It turned out to be a bad PCM module. I called it a clock spring in an earlier post, but I'm not sure that it was exactly the same thing.As of lately, when I unlock the truck (2019 XLT) and open the door, the center stack gives the warning "System Off to Save Battery". Upon inserting the key, the chime only comes from the instrument cluster, and the radio is turned off.
I have not made any changes to anything, only recently changing the oil and rotating the tires. The AS/S hasnt engaged in a long time because I have not driven long enough distances to charge the battery. I have not checked the battery to see if its weak but I will tonight.
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this ?
TIA
Take pictures and videos and when you go to the dealership you let them know what's going on. They have to test it all the way through. I had to leave mine on overnight so that they could see that it was a parasitic draw.
Six weeks for them to fix it because they did one little thing at a time and did not test from one point to the other.
.First they replace the controls on the right hand side of the steering wheel then the next time they had to replace the controls on the left-hand side is steering wheel then they had to test for parasitic draw and they had to leave it overnight so that they could see by morning that it had dropped voltage that it should not have been dropped. Everything supposed to shut down within two hours I believe it is. Then I had to wait for them to order the BCM module. Blah blah blah blah blah. Good luck with this hopefully my headache will save you a headache.
PS I speak my text and if anything looks retarded just try phonetics the sometimes I just get tired of going back and correct in Siri. If it's something you really can't understand let me know I'll fix it.
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