Recent content by SD Rebel

Good point on potentially masking a real issue, it's really just to buy time until you have the time and budget to handle it out of warranty.

This comes from Banks, grain of salt of course, but very interesting regarding the Pedal Commander:

What does the digital meter say in the same situation?

Gotcha, so this is on the digital gauge, it's 14.0v when running or the mechanical gauge?

Remember that a 12v battery will show a lower than actual resting charge if it experiences any drain, such as turning on the accessories or even opening the door and having the doom light on. That 12v you see on the dash with the accessories on isn't accurate. The best way to know your...

Gotcha, can't you time the clearing of the code for your inspection? Even in CA, it's easy to do, once the light is cleared on an OBDII, you should be smog ready after about 75 - 100 miles of driving. Of course this is assuming your light doesn't come back on right after that. My sensor took...

Not in my RAM, but my F150. It popped up early, maybe at the first year, but I just used my OBDII reader to clear it, it would take about 1,500 miles to pop up again, so I just kept clearing it until I was near my warranty ending. They had to drop the fuel tank to replace the sensor, assuming...

Paint is only covered for 3 ys / 36k miles, and it's never included on any Mopar extended warranty. Luckily, spot fixing something like this from a good body shop is relatively easy, assuming no corrosion underneath. It's possible this could be something from a spot repair prior to delivery...

As always, just in case, double check your fuse box in the engine bay, in front of the battery, flip it open, check to make sure all the bolts are tight. Should take about 1 minute to do, but a loose bolt will cause all kinds of battery and charging issues. My truck was built on Jan 2019...

You may want to have a muffler shop check it out, they can lift the vehicle up and check on the exhaust from tip to tail and see if it's something loose.

Don't worry, that research would have resulted in you spending hours reading some rather interesting threads, but in the end would result in no definitive conclusion to which is better. In the end, it's what you're comfortable with and prefer to believe in. You can run either, it's your...

The usual suspects that turn these 20W/30W threads into train wrecks I'm sure have seen this thread title already. Yes, I know I'm one of those suspects. But impressed with the discipline so far.

Does it sound like something internal in the engine or something down the line vibrating? Hopefully it's something in the exhaust that's maybe loose and that when you're in 4 cylinder mode it causes a vibration.

It should, they made no bodywork changes. The way they accommodated the new grill and headlight design was to widen the plastic trim piece under it. I would still double check with the dealership parts department for compatibility. It's possible they could have changed something with how it...

Gotcha, yeah I'm not sure I've never seen one go that high on the nearly fully charged battery.