| Vue [message #484418] |
Fri, 14 October 2005 18:43 |
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Well we had an exciting problem with a Vue at the apartment complex where I
live last night. About 2 AM the horn starts sounding. It wakes me up. At
first I am worried it is one of my cars, so I get dressed and walk out to
look. Not my cars, and I can't really tell where the noise is coming from,
so I go back to bed - brieflly. Damn horn is so annoying that I can't sleep.
Finally I get up again and go out. There is a crowd clustered around a Vue a
few doors down. The Vue is owned by a young gril who has a bunch of guys
trying to help her. Total lack of knowledge and tools, so nothing is
happening. One guy is under the dash pulling fuses. The cover is off the
battery, but no one has a tool to disconnect the cables. No lights, but at
least I know where the underhood fuse box is. I uncover that and start
pulling fuses. No luck. Finally we notice one realy is really hot. We pull
that and mercifully the horn stops. I still don't know what was wrong, but
at least I got back to sleep (after the ringing in my ears quit).
Has anyone had this happen before? I wonder what might happen to my Vue if
it had this problem when I am out of town. The crowd around the other Vue
was getting pretty angry. I suspect if the owner had not been available,
they might have taken drastic measures (and I mean break something major).
Ed White
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| Re: Vue [message #484423 ] |
Sat, 15 October 2005 03:37 |
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I recently had a customer with a '05 VUE whose horn / alarm became posessed
at the oddest times, some kinda electrical malfunction. Not sure what it
was, but the shop was able to fix it once they were able to identify the
culprit. Once in a blue moon, VUEs and especially IONs will get a ghost in
the electrical system.
marx404
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| Re: Vue [message #484428 ] |
Sat, 15 October 2005 13:53 |
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In article <1fR3f.14804$q1.13098 [at] newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
cewhite3 [at] mindspring.com says...
> Well we had an exciting problem with a Vue at the apartment complex where I
> live last night. About 2 AM the horn starts sounding. It wakes me up. At
> first I am worried it is one of my cars, so I get dressed and walk out to
> look. Not my cars, and I can't really tell where the noise is coming from,
> so I go back to bed - brieflly. Damn horn is so annoying that I can't sleep.
> Finally I get up again and go out. There is a crowd clustered around a Vue a
> few doors down. The Vue is owned by a young gril who has a bunch of guys
> trying to help her. Total lack of knowledge and tools, so nothing is
> happening. One guy is under the dash pulling fuses. The cover is off the
> battery, but no one has a tool to disconnect the cables. No lights, but at
> least I know where the underhood fuse box is. I uncover that and start
> pulling fuses. No luck. Finally we notice one realy is really hot. We pull
> that and mercifully the horn stops. I still don't know what was wrong, but
> at least I got back to sleep (after the ringing in my ears quit).
>
> Has anyone had this happen before? I wonder what might happen to my Vue if
> it had this problem when I am out of town. The crowd around the other Vue
> was getting pretty angry. I suspect if the owner had not been available,
> they might have taken drastic measures (and I mean break something major).
>
> Ed White
Was it humid that night? My 2 guesses, BCM or Relay.
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