Well, my truck is out of service. 4800 miles and useless to me right now. On a road trip, woke up in Rapid City, SD, drove 3 miles to the Panera Bread for breakfast. Waiting in line for the drive through and get a Service DEF message, don't recall the exact text as that was yesterday morning after a 12 hour drive, the last 4 hours in a snow storm. My OBD scanner showed 1 P204F code, no others, no repeats while I was waiting for my breakfast or after finishing it; so figured I'd try for my next stop. Got about 30 minutes down the road and I get the "in 200 miles your truck will not restart" (or whatever it is) with 500 miles to drive and gauge showing 222 miles to empty. Before the flame starts, in hindsight, yes I should have just gotten it to the dealer, but don't think that would have changed the rest...
Searched for the closest dealer, and back to Rapid City. Local Ram dealer was 1 week out to get my truck in, but called their Chrysler location across the street and got me in. This morning, after test driving the truck, cannot get the "no restart" message to reset, called Ram and they want them to replace the DEF tank and pump. Overnighting that, and hopefully will have my truck back Friday afternoon.
Based on what I am getting from the service writer, the P204F occurred once, there are no shorts in the wires, after driving for 40 miles, they manually recycled something, disconnected the battery multiple times trying to get the "no restart" message to clear. Also applied an update to the ECM, not sure what yet will post that once I have the paperwork. The check engine light is off, based on what they are seeing there is nothing wrong with my truck, well, except for the fact the it thinks the DEF tank is empty even though they filled it. Was at 3/4 full when I dropped it off. No clue about what might have been the cause, Google search says that sometimes the P204F is due to cold temps and well it was cold.
BTW, if you are ever stuck in or near Rapid City, SD with issues, Liberty Chrysler Jeep Fiat service department is great. Cannot say enough about how grateful that I am that they were able to fit me into their schedule (their first opening was actually Friday). Currently the Ram dealership is down 3 techs due to COVID which is why they were a week out to even look at my truck, thankful they thought to call across the street to see if that would work.
I will post an update once I get my truck back and have the service paperwork in front of me.
Edit: FYI... From the door sticker, my build date is 10-19. Assuming October 2019.
Searched for the closest dealer, and back to Rapid City. Local Ram dealer was 1 week out to get my truck in, but called their Chrysler location across the street and got me in. This morning, after test driving the truck, cannot get the "no restart" message to reset, called Ram and they want them to replace the DEF tank and pump. Overnighting that, and hopefully will have my truck back Friday afternoon.
Based on what I am getting from the service writer, the P204F occurred once, there are no shorts in the wires, after driving for 40 miles, they manually recycled something, disconnected the battery multiple times trying to get the "no restart" message to clear. Also applied an update to the ECM, not sure what yet will post that once I have the paperwork. The check engine light is off, based on what they are seeing there is nothing wrong with my truck, well, except for the fact the it thinks the DEF tank is empty even though they filled it. Was at 3/4 full when I dropped it off. No clue about what might have been the cause, Google search says that sometimes the P204F is due to cold temps and well it was cold.
BTW, if you are ever stuck in or near Rapid City, SD with issues, Liberty Chrysler Jeep Fiat service department is great. Cannot say enough about how grateful that I am that they were able to fit me into their schedule (their first opening was actually Friday). Currently the Ram dealership is down 3 techs due to COVID which is why they were a week out to even look at my truck, thankful they thought to call across the street to see if that would work.
I will post an update once I get my truck back and have the service paperwork in front of me.
Edit: FYI... From the door sticker, my build date is 10-19. Assuming October 2019.
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