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Truck random lights, dings, beeps

Curlymurt

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Long story short I had to take my truck to get the front end repaired after being backed into. Collision center gives it back to me and the first night I have it, the passenger headlight gets condensation in it. I also started getting an error message for Auto/Start Disabled. It happens randomly no matter what speed, bump, turn, or braking I may be doing.

Two nights ago I was turning left and accelerating when the Auto/Start Stop faire dinged at me, then my hazards started flashing and the airbag light and an airbag failure message came on.

Today I'm stopped at a light, no auto start stop occurred (no error message; I assume the truck is still warming) and the light turns green. I press the accelerator and literally nothing happens. I press it 2-3 more times in short succession and depressing the brake pedal once or twice, shift into park, back into drive, press accelerator and nothing. So I wait a couple seconds, traffic hasn't honked (which was amazing) and press accelerator and it drives like normal.

My brain struggled to process what the H just happened. At this point, I don't trust the truck to get me from point A to B on a road trip or just down the street.

I know other members have experienced weirdness, but there's never a resolution or outcome given. What have you guys done to remedy these weird electrical grimlins? I had it last year when my battery was dying, but I had it tested by the auto parts store and they said it was good.
 

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Driving around this morning I noticed this actually says Autopark Disabled prior to the auto start stop message.
 

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I haven't figured this out yet. I read on the Jeep forums that many times people bend a pin at the connector when they put their doors back on so I checked the connectors related to the front of the truck and didn't see anything bent. I focused on the front because I had repair work completed before all of this started.

Does anyone have a program that can log when error messages pop up? I checked torque OBDII and alpha OBD but didn't see any setting that will work.
 

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I figured this out about a week ago but wanted to be sure before posting. I crawled under the truck and pushed not only the connectors (all tight) but also the wires attached to the connectors. Somewhere, I must have made a positive connection because I haven't had an issue since.

There's one connector under the driver front bumper area. Above that, there's a smaller connection that I don't know what it goes to but I checked it too. Lastly, I checked the harness and wires under my seat to see if those had somehow been pulled loose or a wire on the connector loose. Happy hunting to those who end up with the same symptoms.
 

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Do you have any pics of the areas? I have no issues but I’ll go ahead and press connectors tight just to be sure
 

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