24’ 801a Electrical/ Computer Failure While Driving

[OCGen3]

Purchased truck in September, has about 5,000 miles. I installed SDI E-click at 1,000 miles and it’s been running without issue, aside from a glitchy left rear parking sensor off an on a few months ago. Today I was 10 miles into a short trip and a blind spot monitoring unavailable notification followed by numerous other failures showed up and then both screens went blank aside from gear selection in the bottom left (all white not indicating a gear selection) of the instrument cluster and “vehicle network communication error” on the infotainment screen. The truck continued to run, steering tightened up almost like no power steering, had no control of any of electronics including windows, door locks, turn signals, etc. I pulled over and shut it off, engine shut down but screens never turned off and couldn’t lock car and wouldn’t respond to key fob. Luckily it restarted and I was able to limp home. Disconnected the battery and reconnected and everything went back to normal. Curious if anyone else has seen this, I don’t want to be on a longer trip and have this issue. Also curious if it may have been an issue with eclick tripping out the computer because of an update. I have auto updates off and purposely do not update the vehicle due to known conflicts that occur.

This isn’t the first time I’ve owned a gen 3 with issues….frustrating.

 

[HAP]

Make sure you battery is fully charged at all times. Vehicle updates of varying sizes download depending on your selections, and if the voltage drops beyond the vehicles threshold, the download may not finish. Keeping these vehicles connected to battery maintainer is almost mandatory to avoid random battery related issues that may not seem related. Most modern vehicles are seeing glitches especially on non-daily driven ones. It may not be your root cause, but it certainly helps to avoid problems from lengthy system updates. Lots of posts regarding use of battery maintainers/tenders.

R,
HAP

 

[Donmatteo]

Sounds like a low / failed battery.

 

[OCGen3]

appreciate the feedback guys. Truck did sit for a couple days during the holidays but it was driven a lot the day prior and voltage seemed normal on the dash, not like a heavy charge