2019 SRW 3500 dead

[AH64ID]

Fact is......my Tradesman EVIC resets the drive hours [like clockwork ] EVERY 1,092 hours.

When that picture was taken.....I was really at 3,277 drive hours. Idle time has not hiccuped....yet.

I'd bet idle time will hiccup at 1092 as well.

Few evenings with the truck in N, shutoff, and key on will get you there in no time

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

Ouch. Guess the ECM counts idle hours even if your not at idle.

I’ve been thinking this for a while. I’m the only owner of my truck and I have never let it idle for more than a minute. My idle time shows 212. I check this every time I start and shut the truck off. The other night I shut the truck off it was at 210. The next morning when I started it, it was at 212.

 

[Ozymandias]

Every time you are on a traffic light or a stop sign is idle hours

 

[Timd32]

My guess what makes that 1092hr mark so special, 1092 x 60 = 65520, 65535 is the upper range of alot of 16 bit computer measurements, so in order not to max it out and go out of range they must just flip it right before that. Or it's just is some random thing, don't think its random but I can still be off base on the above.

But was first thing that I thought of when I thought of what made that so special.

A lot of our CanBus registers have that max range in the industrial world.

Here is a better example from the net.
A 16-bit binary number can have 65536 different values. Conventionally, and based on the arithmetic operations the computer will perform, these are mapped into integer values -32768 through 32767. But they can also conventionally be mapped into unsigned integer values 0 through 65535

 

[AH64ID]

I’ve been thinking this for a while. I’m the only owner of my truck and I have never let it idle for more than a minute. My idle time shows 212. I check this every time I start and shut the truck off. The other night I shut the truck off it was at 210. The next morning when I started it, it was at 212.

I don’t idle mine either, but it adds up for the reasons Ozy mentioned. I’m still under 10% idle time. What’s your total time?

 

[gsbrockman]

My 2014 3500 Tradesman with the same EVIC never hicupped.

Over on CF.....it’s actually been experienced by several members.

 

[RVTRKN]

I always warm up my truck, I always have, and always will. There are arguements for and against, I fall into the for category. Its like "N" & PB then Park. If I have to run a cold engine, I take it real easy for a few hundred yards. However like I posted, I don't open the hrs window, so I don't know if it added time for the period it was in neutral and off.

 

[JR]

Fact is......my Tradesman EVIC resets the drive hours [like clockwork ] EVERY 1,092 hours.

When that picture was taken.....I was really at 3,277 drive hours. Idle time has not hiccuped....yet.

Is there any way to track total hours? My 14 and my cousins 13 does not reset like that. That doesn't seem right.

 

[AH64ID]

I always warm up my truck, I always have, and always will. There are arguements for and against, I fall into the for category. Its like "N" & PB then Park. If I have to run a cold engine, I take it real easy for a few hundred yards. However like I posted, I don't open the hrs window, so I don't know if it added time for the period it was in neutral and off.

So do you think those idle hours are accurate?

3-5 minutes is fine, 10 minutes is excessive. Those are the numbers from Cummins.

 

[gsbrockman]

Is there any way to track total hours? My 14 and my cousins 13 does not reset like that. That doesn't seem right.

It is strictly a cluster error.

I’ve had WiTech hooked to it a couple of times before, and all hours jive.

 

[RVTRKN]

So do you think those idle hours are accurate?

3-5 minutes is fine, 10 minutes is excessive. Those are the numbers from Cummins.

Its probably close, 2/3rds of my total milage is city driving.

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

I don’t idle mine either, but it adds up for the reasons Ozy mentioned. I’m still under 10% idle time. What’s your total time?

I get what Ozy is saying, but I live in a small area where no one spends much time at stop lights. My wife took the truck a mile round trip to the grocery store yesterday. When she left it read 212, when she got back it read 216. Sitting in the garage over night it gained two hours. It now reads 218?

 

[AH64ID]

I get what Ozy is saying, but I live in a small area where no one spends much time at stop lights. My wife took the truck a mile round trip to the grocery store yesterday. When she left it read 212, when she got back it read 216. Sitting in the garage over night it gained two hours. It now reads 228?
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That is bizarre. Time travel

 

[TFucili]

Have you ever had a UFO encounter?
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[TRAMPLINEMAN]

That is bizarre. Time travel

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Maybe someone is sneaking in and sleeping in it overnight.

On another note, my work truck is a ‘14 FL with a Cummins and has 48,000 miles with 6300 hours.

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

Have you ever had a UFO encounter?
#ad

I wish! Only been violated by my wife.

 

[JPM]

Did you try jump the grid heater cycle by double press the start button?

To my knowledge that shouldn't harm the electronics at all because it can always happen. Would be weird if that kills it

pushing the starter button twice allows the truck to start without waiting for a heater grid cycle? never heard of that . all versions?

 

[AH64ID]

pushing the starter button twice allows the truck to start without waiting for a heater grid cycle? never heard of that . all versions?

Works that way on my ‘18. I skip the preheat most the time.

 

[TFucili]

pushing the starter button twice allows the truck to start without waiting for a heater grid cycle? never heard of that . all versions?

Works on my '19.

 

[JackFate]

What a way to start off on New Year’s Eve, lucky for me, my scheduled job this morning canceled and I took the day off. I went to go to the car wash. I hit the remote start and it acted weird, seeing I’ve had odd issues with the remote a couple of times. I marked both remotes so if I were to have the same issue I could see what remote it was. So this morning it seemed to do it again with remote # 2. I went ahead and got in it to start by the start button, and this is what I saw. Sorry I couldn’t get the video to load. Just know my dash went nuts and even my windshield wipers were even running real slow. I had to remove the negative battery posts to get it to stop. I noticed my shifter seemed to be in a odd position, it turned out I had left it in the “N” position and I shut it off. The battery drained to 5.5 VDC and I attempted to jump it off with my battery jump pack, but the grid heaters was to much. I’m currently charging the batteries now while I install my new weather tech mud flaps. Hopefully no damage to my ECM or other electronics. Just know low batt will cause weird operation of the electronics. I’ll try to post the video later.

On my 1500 /2016 ram if I shut down in anything but park the remote would not work for starting. It had the 8 speed rotary shifter and it did reset to park automatically but would not remotely start.