OK - This one rates about a 7 on my weird problem ometer.

[ACoyle]

Here is the truck



2004 3500 Quad Cab Dualie



Here is the problem.



As I approach the truck, I push the unlock button on the keyfob. The doors unlock, the interior lights come on. All seems normal.



I get in the truck and start the motor and drive off.



At about 15 MPH the doors are supposed to auto lock. They do that.



Then it happens. The "Door ajar" light comes on flashing. I hear the door locks again cycle to lock. I hear two chimes dings. The interior lights come on. This repeats every few seconds until I manually operate the door lock button on the drivers door. At that point, it all stops. It seems to lock OK.



Any ideas would be appreciated.



Thank You



Andy

 

[wcjp]

There have been quite a few guys that have had problems with the wiring harness for the rear doors. The rubber loom that you see when the door is open is where the problems seem to originate. I wonder if one or more of your wires is making a partial contact.

 

[basilry]

Mine is doing that I have not had time to tare into the wiring yet, but when it does that I take and open the rear doors all the way and shut them a few times and that seems to work until it acts up again

 

[mrtrombley]

As stated above, the problem could be in the rubber cover with the wires going to the rear door. With mine, I found 4 broken wires inside the left side rubber cover. I had to actually slit the rubber open to get at the wires so that I could splice them back together. All the door opening and closing seems to break the wires.

 

[ACoyle]

OK - I am off to the rear doors to look at the wires. Left rear is suspicious, I open it most every day and it has not been locking with the lock button. I thought it was the solenoid.

I did find this TSB, it does not seem to be for my year thougn.

http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2003/08-023-03.htm

 

[JFought]

give a gentle tug and you should fine the broken wire, or look for deformity in the sheathing, indicating a severed wire inside the sheathing.

mine was broken as well.

 

[ACoyle]

I think you all have definitely identified the problem. I did not have a lot of time today, so, I just jiggled the wires for the left rear door. The problem is gone, most likely temporarily. When I have more time and I open it up and fix it right, I may even get my rear door to lock with the solenoid.

Kind of an ickey design, though, isn't it?

 

[rbattelle]

I had the same thing happen to me several weeks ago. In the rain. In an emergency, of course.

It happened for 15 minutes continuously, and hasn't recurred.

When the weather improves I'll have to tear into the door wiring.

-Ryan

 

[Paddy McMahon]

rear door wiring was broken on both sides of my truck between pillars and doors and caused locks and windows, stereo speakers to work intermittently. Pulled off the rubber loom and found all wires broken and had to reconnect w/ butt splices. . all better now. I would imagine you have a similar situation. Good luck getting the rubber loom back over all the wiring when you're done. I ended up cutting the loom off and leaving the seal at pillar & door and just taping over all the butt splices to avoid kinks/binding. Beware-the OEM wire is really brittle.

 

[Shadrach]

If you have to splice several wires in the same area stagger the splices even if it means using an extension piece of wire and 2 connections so that the butts aren't all bunched together making the wire too fat. Use good quality butts and heat shrink the connections. Shad

 

[p-Bar]

You need to replace the wire with the super multi straded wire it's used in mil spec applications