pamoky5
Junior Member
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to see if there is anyone here that has possibly run into this issue or a similar one.
I have had my Rebel for 6 months now and have 8100 miles on it. Two weeks ago, I was driving it on the highway and when I hit the exit ramp it started to hesitate and the battery light came on for a few seconds then everything cleared and it ran normally for the rest of the day. It was a really cold day, in the 20's so I shrugged it off to that. However, this past Saturday (temps in the 40's), my wife took it out locally in town and she called me saying the truck hesitated to the point of a stall, the engine was revving and it wouldn't go anywhere when she pushed the gas down. She pulled into a parking lot, shut it off let it sit for a couple of minutes, started it back up and it cleared with no other issues on the way back to the house.
We made an appointment with the dealer that we bought it from today and I just got back from picking it up. The service manager said they ran a series of diagnostics with no results, I had a bad feeling that they would come back with a CND and they did. The one thing that "concerned" me is when the service manager said that he suspects that the "insurance thing" that I have plugged into the computer most likely caused the issue confusing the truck's computer and that I should remove it. I asked the service manager, "What Insurance thing, what are you talking about, I don't have an insurance thing plugged into my truck". He repeated himself and I interrupted him and asked him, "Do you mean the plug for my AMP powered running boards?"... Awkward pause and he said yeah, that plug. I told him that those were installed within the first 500 miles that were put on the truck and this is the first time the truck has acted up. He said it's weird, but he doesn't know why it did what it did.
So my first issue is that I'm sure one of the technicians tried to see if it would pull any codes but didn't so I get a CND. My second issue is that the dealer has a service manager that didn't recognize that there was a wire coming out of the "insurance thing" and that the running boards magically extended and retracted. This gives me serious concerns about their service department as a whole.
Seriously though, I thought that I would come to this forum to see if anyone else has had an issue similar to this and what (if any) was the repair. Also, has anyone had any issues with their AMP power steps that created an issue with the computer?
I would appreciate any input!
I just wanted to see if there is anyone here that has possibly run into this issue or a similar one.
I have had my Rebel for 6 months now and have 8100 miles on it. Two weeks ago, I was driving it on the highway and when I hit the exit ramp it started to hesitate and the battery light came on for a few seconds then everything cleared and it ran normally for the rest of the day. It was a really cold day, in the 20's so I shrugged it off to that. However, this past Saturday (temps in the 40's), my wife took it out locally in town and she called me saying the truck hesitated to the point of a stall, the engine was revving and it wouldn't go anywhere when she pushed the gas down. She pulled into a parking lot, shut it off let it sit for a couple of minutes, started it back up and it cleared with no other issues on the way back to the house.
We made an appointment with the dealer that we bought it from today and I just got back from picking it up. The service manager said they ran a series of diagnostics with no results, I had a bad feeling that they would come back with a CND and they did. The one thing that "concerned" me is when the service manager said that he suspects that the "insurance thing" that I have plugged into the computer most likely caused the issue confusing the truck's computer and that I should remove it. I asked the service manager, "What Insurance thing, what are you talking about, I don't have an insurance thing plugged into my truck". He repeated himself and I interrupted him and asked him, "Do you mean the plug for my AMP powered running boards?"... Awkward pause and he said yeah, that plug. I told him that those were installed within the first 500 miles that were put on the truck and this is the first time the truck has acted up. He said it's weird, but he doesn't know why it did what it did.
So my first issue is that I'm sure one of the technicians tried to see if it would pull any codes but didn't so I get a CND. My second issue is that the dealer has a service manager that didn't recognize that there was a wire coming out of the "insurance thing" and that the running boards magically extended and retracted. This gives me serious concerns about their service department as a whole.
Seriously though, I thought that I would come to this forum to see if anyone else has had an issue similar to this and what (if any) was the repair. Also, has anyone had any issues with their AMP power steps that created an issue with the computer?
I would appreciate any input!
