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This is good advice. I've used clamp on ammeters with good success in finding a parasitic drain, and like he said, the reconnection of the wire during insertion of a conventional ammeter can and will "wake up" modules and such, causing a temporary current draw that is easily mistaken for a...

Perhaps lemon law it?

Similar to waterman above, I believe there's serious problems here. Like he said, it's easy (and often true) to remind people that few people join forums to tell about how great their vehicle is doing. The media never reports on the flight that didn't crash. But, that's not always correct...

You can be sure it does. They didn't put amps capable of powering 19 separate speakers to decent volume in a head unit.

She hasn't gotten in the truck yet since last night. However, the boards are about a foot below where she's been stepping up before, so they kind of can't help but improve things. I'll find out for sure soon.

Dealer should be doing better than keeping your truck for weeks for something that happened on the second DAY of ownership. They probably aren't required to, but it would be good business sense and common decency to put in extra effort to make the customer whole in such a situation.

Nobody knows?

Just wanted to post an update, I received my running boards yesterday and installed them. It's one of the easiest procedures I've done recently. The studs for mounting them come on the truck from the factory, and weren't even dirty because my truck is so new. I hung the running boards on the...

My new laramie has about 230 miles on it. The SES light has not come on. I checked for pending misfire codes yesterday and there were none, so that's encouraging. To be clear, I've had no symptoms of any problem at all, I just decided to check preemptively in case some were pending.

Oh boy, and now your journey begins...

Were you in the Marines from '87 to '91, for 4 years? I was wondering if that's what your name stood for.

The thing is, apparently they have not figured it out.

Yeah, it can sure bug you out. The single most disturbing thing I've read in this thread is the post where someone with the misfire problem said someone from their service dept went out and test drove 3 new trucks on the lot, and ALL THREE OF THEM had the misfire. THAT is alarming, because if...

Manifold pressure in this case is apparently atmospheric pressure plus boost pressure. So the engine must necessarily have both an ambient air pressure sensor and a manifold pressure sensor.

That could well be, which would correspond with what I said about 2.5 degrees retarded from target advance. By target advance, I mean what the computer will set timing to at that moment in the absence of any knock.

This thread has me paranoid enough that had I seen it before I bought my truck I likely would not have bought it. Like many of those having misfire problems, mine was built in March of this year. No sign of any trouble yet, but now I'm just waiting for the light to come on.

Interesting. I also notice that timing advance is listed as -2.5 degrees. I wonder if that's 2.5 degrees pulled out from target advance because of detected knock or if it's actually 2.5 degrees after top dead center...

All joking aside, I came VERY close to buying a new '24 rcsb xl 4wd f150 instead of the ram I got. Reason is, such a truck would have poverty star stamped steel wheels, single exhaust, black bumpers, and rubber floormat, while running 11's with the whipple blower kit I was also going to get...

I don't mean what gear ratio, I mean what axle type. It looks pretty similar to, but not identical to, the chrysler corporate 9.25" axle that's been out since the mid 70's at least and was used in practically every dodge 1500 truck in the 90's/early 2000's since at least 1994. My '09 hemi rcsb...

So, reading between the lines, the town crier above is either incompetent as a pilot or is a blowhard.