Posted by Goose on December 03, 2013 at 16:52:14 from (70.198.24.87):
Yesterday, the electric door locks on my ’05 Dodge Grand Caravan suddenly quit working. It’s important to me that they work, ‘cause this is my work vehicle and when I’m on the job I normally have a measuring wheel, camera pole, GPS unit, laptop computer, digital camera, backup digital camera, laser measurer, etc. on board and I don’t stray over 10’ from the van without hitting the door lock button on the remote.
When I got home, I checked the fuses. Instead of pulling them, I simply hit the little orifices on the fuses with the probe from an electrical tester.
I then posted a thread on this forum asking if anyone had any ideas.
Next, I got on the ‘Net and lucked out by finding a forum on this specific problem. Apparently it’s a rather common problem, specifically on ’05 Caravans. Several posters said they had to pay a Chrysler/Dodge dealer $150 to $200 to reprogram the computer. A couple of other posts said all you needed to do was pull the 20 amp fuse marked IUD, wait 10 seconds, and plug it back in. I tried it and my locks immediately began working again.
I then put 2 and 2 together. All a nefarious dealer would need to do would be to get the vehicle out of sight of the owner, do the bit with the IUD fuse, wait another 20 minutes to make it look good, and charge the unsuspecting customer $200 for “reprogramming the computer”. And they wouldn’t even be lying, ‘cause I assume the computer reprograms itself while the fuse is pulled.
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