Recent content by KingChu

Agree completely. Mechanic here. With 20 degrees ambient driving around, and a stuck open thermostat, like I pointed out earlier, you would be seeing coolant temp drop hard like in the 150 or lower range. I see O’Reilly has a 180 and 192 alternate temp thermostat. OE is 203. It is more likely...

Here’s a quick test to test the thermostat. Drive it around with that screen up.. does coolant temp drop down into the 150s or lower? Or does it stay near 180? If it stays, your thermostat is fine. If it drops 20 to 30 degrees, the thermostat is stuck wide open.

Seems normal given the ambient temperature. You really won’t see above 175 transmission temp in that cold. Oil temp and pressure are good. Coolant temp is in the low normal range but once again given ambient temperature somewhere in the 180s and 190s is probably normal.

So yes being historic it is unlikely an issue. Without the most recent freeze frame data to see when the last timestamp was when the faults set it is hard to tell if any real issue exists. If they are “permanent” faults then it will take multiple drive cycles for them to clear themselves out of...

Tire sidewall pressures are max towing aka if you are maxing out the load per tire. That being said in commercial vehicles the door placard matches the sidewall or very close to it. It may be the same on 2500s and 3500s considering they are more work trucks. And just to clarify I have a rebel...

By stored you mean historic? Or do you have a MIL light on with active faults? Start with checking your battery connections. Then, make sure the battery is fully charged and have it tested. If all that passes then I would be looking into a bad ground or wiring harness that has rubbed through...

Tire fill assist just basically for getting close to factory pressure if you aired down or a tire is low. Doesn’t change the threshold at which the TPMS light comes on.

The reason is, correct me if I’m wrong, is that the rebel comes with e load range tires from the factory and can usually tow quite a bit, so the tire placards are 55f 45r (at least on 2020). The only reason you’d want lower is if you’d run a lower load range tire, but then you’d be defeating the...

Weight the bed. A few heavy sandbags over the rear axle would help but nothing will help if you are driving like it’s just some rain. I would err on the side of caution and slow down if the rear is kicking out. May be some compacted and icy stuff underneath.

Hello all, New here and just wanted to share some info regarding alignments when you have electronic power steering. The story: Scheduled an alignment on my 20 Rebel as I was needing new tires and knew something was slightly off. So I wanted everything set well before investing that kind of...