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I have had more electrical/mechanical issues than I can stand with this truck. The day after I got the truck one of the fog lights fell off. Not a big deal just made a quick bracket and welded it on. I also noticed that the lock button on the passenger side isnt working but the unlock is but I haven't care about that too much in almost 4 years. A few months later there was a squeak in the door. Pull it apart and the bolt holding the seat belt winder came off. Another quick fix just ran a bigger self threading screw. Put the door panel back on and the fun begins. The door jamb switch is showing the door is always open. So I swap the switch from the other side and it still doesn't work. I pull the door panel off and check the wires and they are all but one cut like the door closed and pinched the wires. So I go to the wrecking yard and get a new harness and it all works. Then winter comes and the abs light cames on almost every time after it engages. Shut the truck off and it is fine until it engages again. Not a big deal the winters aren't horrible here. Then a few more months and the battery needs to be replaced but none of the auto parts stores carry it so it has to be ordered from 300+ miles away so I have to get a similar yet smaller battery and since then every light dims with the blinkers flashing but not a big deal. A year or 2 goes by with few problems excepts the lights dimming and intermittent abs light. Then I go to change the plugs and fuel filter. Goes seeming well until I drive it the next day and it has a really bad misfire. So I checked the plugs and fuel filter, seems fine so I clean the maf and throttle body and air filter and it misfires even worse for about a week then out of no where it just runs fine and has ever since. A few weeks ago I decide to replace rotors and pads. Went fine but now the abs is on all the time. I search and find it is common to mess them up when removing the hubs(would have been nice to know before but oh well). Then I drive the truck and notice some smoke coming from the wheel and the rotors are super hot. So a mechanic buddy suggests new calipers so I do that and everything is fine untill it snows again here and the abs light comes on and wont turn off when I restart the engine. So today I needed to replace the hid lamps. First I break every single metal clip holding the grille on. Get the lights replaced and put a different grille on for the time being. I go to take the blinker assemblies out of the old grille and into the new and break the tabs on those so those are now zip tied in place. After all that the blinker on the driver front isn't working but they still light up and I can't find the patience to figure that out today.
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I have had more electrical/mechanical issues than I can stand with this truck. The day after I got the truck one of the fog lights fell off. Not a big deal just made a quick bracket and welded it on. I also noticed that the lock button on the passenger side isnt working but the unlock is but I haven't care about that too much in almost 4 years. A few months later there was a squeak in the door. Pull it apart and the bolt holding the seat belt winder came off. Another quick fix just ran a bigger self threading screw. Put the door panel back on and the fun begins. The door jamb switch is showing the door is always open. So I swap the switch from the other side and it still doesn't work. I pull the door panel off and check the wires and they are all but one cut like the door closed and pinched the wires. So I go to the wrecking yard and get a new harness and it all works. Then winter comes and the abs light cames on almost every time after it engages. Shut the truck off and it is fine until it engages again. Not a big deal the winters aren't horrible here. Then a few more months and the battery needs to be replaced but none of the auto parts stores carry it so it has to be ordered from 300+ miles away so I have to get a similar yet smaller battery and since then every light dims with the blinkers flashing but not a big deal. A year or 2 goes by with few problems excepts the lights dimming and intermittent abs light. Then I go to change the plugs and fuel filter. Goes seeming well until I drive it the next day and it has a really bad misfire. So I checked the plugs and fuel filter, seems fine so I clean the maf and throttle body and air filter and it misfires even worse for about a week then out of no where it just runs fine and has ever since. A few weeks ago I decide to replace rotors and pads. Went fine but now the abs is on all the time. I search and find it is common to mess them up when removing the hubs(would have been nice to know before but oh well). Then I drive the truck and notice some smoke coming from the wheel and the rotors are super hot. So a mechanic buddy suggests new calipers so I do that and everything is fine untill it snows again here and the abs light comes on and wont turn off when I restart the engine. So today I needed to replace the hid lamps. First I break every single metal clip holding the grille on. Get the lights replaced and put a different grille on for the time being. I go to take the blinker assemblies out of the old grille and into the new and break the tabs on those so those are now zip tied in place. After all that the blinker on the driver front isn't working but they still light up and I can't find the patience to figure that out today.
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