Weirdest thing just happened?

[MotoWojo]

My truck is parked in the garage where I left it when I got home from work. I have a very large garage and in the front part I have my work shop. I was in the front part of the garage working on a project when the head lights of my Ranger suddenly turned on and then off after a couple seconds. I have a Lariat and It was pretty bright and it startled me at first as I had my back turned. The key fob is in the house and no one else is home. WTH was that? I have had the truck for a little over a year and nothing like that has happened before. Has anyone else had the headlamps turn on and off like that?

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[Cape Cruiser]

Maybe perimeter alarm? Just guessing

 

[caprtaineddie]

I sometimes wonder if the vehicles receive signals from an unknown source. My wife and I went to the Biltmore House and after parking and locking up, we got on the shuttle bus to the house. As we rode by our Escape, someone said, look at that car. The lights were on, flashers flashing and everything open on the car--windows, sunroof and rear hatch. Needless to say, I told the driver that I had to get off!

 

[gov cheese]

your truck named Christine?

 

[Rviator]

I posted last week about my truck doing the same thing except I know it was the DRL's that flashed. The thread title is something like that, I got similar replies as this thread.
Still no clue as to what happened.

 

[Figarou]

Could be Gremlins. ?

 

[HenryMac]

I sometimes wonder if the vehicles receive signals from an unknown source.

It does.... if you have FordPass and the router is turned on. You, and everybody else that has it, agreed to invasion of privacy and software manipulation when you signed up.

 

[MotoWojo]

I posted last week about my truck doing the same thing except I know it was the DRL's that flashed. The thread title is something like that, I got similar replies as this thread.
Still no clue as to what happened.

Honestly, it could have been the DRLs, I did not have the shop lights on in the garage and it seemed pretty bright. My back was turned and by the time I turned around, they had gone off. Neither the parking lamps or interior lights were illuminated, like they are when you unlock the truck with the remote. Either way, I thought it was strange.

 

[Rviator]

Honestly, it could have been the DRLs, I did not have the shop lights on in the garage and it seemed pretty bright. My back was turned and by the time I turned around, they had gone off. Neither the parking lamps or interior lights were illuminated, like they are when you unlock the truck with the remote. Either way, I thought it was strange.

That sounds identical to what happened with mine. I was cleaning bugs off the front so I could see the DRL's flash.

 

[caprtaineddie]

your truck named Christine?

It just might be, but we don't have it anymore. I won't be able to ask it!

 

[NickTheEnforcer]

Could be Gremlins. ?

Dont laugh when I was a young kid my then step-father aka Satan traded in his mint 1972 Buick Electra 225 that was basically a 'smart man's caddy' for the POS above in powder blue...did I mention he was a heavy drinker? I cant explain any other reason why someone would downsize from a land-yacht to a roller skate.. BTW gas was like .60 per gallon at the time, I think..

 

[dtech]

that gremlin is a true classic if it had the V8 - a friend of mine owned one, handling was amazing (bad).

my classic gas guzzler was a 59 bonneville vert with tri-power.

 

[egilbe]

Could be Gremlins. ?

My father had one, but in blue. He sold it to my younger brother in high school. My brother put oversized tires on it. We were underage, so when we took it camping, we would fill the back panels with beer. One year, it was so overloaded, I had to sit exactly center in the back seat so the tires wouldn't rub on the fenders. My brother ended up trading it for a Dodge dart with a 318 to a friend of ours, who repainted it, and sold it to another friend of ours.

 

[Mokume]

Could be Gremlins. ?

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I owned a '72 version of this, 232 inline 6 with a 3 on the "tree" numbingly boring to drive but it took all the abuse I could hurl at it and never whimpered.

 

[Mokume]

Dont laugh when I was a young kid my then step-father aka Satan traded in his mint 1972 Buick Electra 225 that was basically a 'smart man's caddy' for the POS above in powder blue...did I mention he was a heavy drinker? I cant explain any other reason why someone would downsize from a land-yacht to a roller skate.. BTW gas was like .60 per gallon at the time, I think..

there is probably enough steel in this Buick to manufacture 10 present day Nissan Leaf's

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