Wait to start

[RBollengier]

I just bought a 06 2500 4X4 two days ago. I joined the TDR within an hour of getting it home! I have read the owners manual thouroghly and I can't figure out what the deal is with the "wait to start" light. It never comes on, not even for the lamp test. Should it? I went back to the dealer and talked to the service department and they said it will not come on in warm climents. Here in Charleston it is definitly a warm climent in June. BUT the owners manual said it should at least test with the oter lamps. Starts fine and I sure do love my new truck and hope for many happy years to come. 19. 5mpg and loving it. My 2 jeeps at half the tonnage can't get that.



Thanks, Rene

 

[klenger]

Welcome to the TDR. The wait to start light does not come on if the temp is above 55° or so. I'm not sure about lighting during the lamp test. The light does not actually say "wait to start". It looks like a curley-Q heating element.

 

[RBollengier]

Roger that, I even looked at it with a bright light to see if it was there, and it is. Just never lights, I hate it when the book says one thing and the real world does not comply. Thanks

 

[Carlsummers]

Welcome to the TDR. The wait to start light does not come on if the temp is above 55° or so. I'm not sure about lighting during the lamp test. The light does not actually say "wait to start". It looks like a curley-Q heating element.

Is this something new for '06? I live in Fl. and I don't care how hot it is, my WTS light comes on and does on every CTD I've ever seen.

 

[RBollengier]

And that is exactly what it says in the owners manual, but it has never comes on. So I thought I'd ask.

 

[Radshooter]

the real world does not comply.

Welcome to the real world! :-laf Also, welcome to the TDR! #ad


The light on my '03 comes on almost every time (I think. ) I only look for it if it is cold outside. If it is warm, I just ignore it and start up whether it is on or not.

Enjoy your truck, and don't sweat the small stuff.

Steve

 

[Katman]

I have an '06 4x4. On warm days the light doesn't come on at all. Also doesn't come on on cooler days if the engine is fully warmed.

 

[CSkal]

I have the same problem with mine. I was kinda' looking forward to the light when I got my truck. Oh well, I guess I'll have to "wait" to wait to start until it gets colder (i hope it works).

 

[JRD]

Carl, to answer your question... yes it new for the 06 models. My 05 lit every time like yours. Im not sure why they changed it, but they did.

 

[RBollengier]

Im not sure why they changed it, but they did.

They should have changed the book too. I love this truck, I havn't driven my Jeep a mile since I got it!

 

[MathewsR]

My 2003 light came on every time. When I got the new one I actually thought the red security light (that comes on for a few seconds) was the new wait to start light.

 

[MRaynor]

I live just up I-26 from you and drive to Charleston all the time. It might be an 06 thing. I have an 05 and live off of exit 91 and can drive down there, be at a site for about 10 min. hop back in the truck and get the light and we now it is good and warm. And you know how hot it has been.

 

[mwhals]

The 06' truck light won't light unless the engine is cold enough to make it light. If you don't see the light, then it is not cold enough.



Mark H

 

[Graphite 6]

I believe it ( the computer) actually takes a couple readings of ambient air temp at the intake, maybe the battery temp sensor. So the day could warm up above 55*, but if your a cold start under the hood it's less than 55*, it would come on. In my 04. 5, before and after I had the remote start installed it came on a lot. This '06 it hardly comes on at these springtime temps. You fellers in the South, w/an '06 should hardly see it. Brad

 

[Carlsummers]

It's really funny, I've become so accustomed to waiting to start that even when I get in a gasser, I wait to start... . wife always tells me "Dakotas don't have diesels"..... I knew that.....

 

[SThorud]

It's good to wait to start on a gas engine to at least let the fuel pump prime the system.

 

[RBollengier]

you know how hot it has been.

Not to hot today, but I have stoped looking for the light. Maybe this fall I'll see it.



Today it was the "out of Park" warning horn. I was backing up the align the trailer, in and out, to check how close, and the horn starts honking. I thought it was broken. Happened to me the other day as well. A quick reference the the owners manual solved it. Strange feature.



Rene

 

[MRaynor]

Yeah they did that to mine the other day. Scared the crap out of the wife when I was playing with it to see how it worked. She thought it was broke too.





Mike

 

[cojhl2]

I dunno,, seems to me that regardless of temp that light should illuminate during "Lamp Test". Books says so and also why would that one be different than the others.

 

[EWhite]

It's really funny, I've become so accustomed to waiting to start that even when I get in a gasser, I wait to start... . wife always tells me "Dakotas don't have diesels"..... I knew that.....

Yeah, I also find myself waiting for the EGT'S to cool down in my wife's gasser. She always says come on let's go!!!