door chime problems
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door chime problems
My truck just recently started having this little problem. When I turn off the truck, and remove the key, the door chime keeps on dinging when the door is open. No key, no lights on, nothing. It's not the accelerated chime like when you leave your lights on, just the normal chime that should only happen when the door is open with the key in the ignition. Any ideas?
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Does your interior light stay on also? Fords are known for the switch in the door sticking. You can spray a cleaner like WD- 40 or the likes,in the lock mechanism in the door and open and close it and wipe it out as good as you can and that usually solves it for a year or so. Then dirt and grime build up again so just do it again.
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Yeah, I've done that trick several times on my last two fords, a 98 and an 01, but this one is different becasue the light doesn't stay on, just the dinger. It's starting to **** me off.
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OK guys, I tore into it last night. On the inside end of the tumbler, there is a little clip with a metal contact and a wire running up under the dash. I accidentally pulled that little clip out, and the dinging stopped. When I touched it back to the tumbler, the dinging started, key or no key. So I figured out where this thing went, bent it back to what I thought was correct, and put it all back together. No more keyless dinging. However, now my steering wheel doesn't seem to lock when I take the key out. FIxed one problem started another. Anyone got any info on the steering wheel lock?
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Not real clear on that, I'm not sure where the push rod is, but it seems like it would be hard for this clip to push anything, it's really small, looks like it was designed only to make a contact.
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if any one finds a permanet fix for this problem please help us all out and post it cause my 97 F150 does the same thing only the door chime nothing else !!! it really pisses me off when hunting and then there goes my prey damn it !!!! help me fast hunting season is here again in the north !!!
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I know that wire works as a ground that completes the circuit when you turn your key, it is possible that the little clip is touching metal somewhere it should not be or perhaps the wire is going to ground else where. If I remember correctly when you put your key in it pushes a metal pin up that touches the little clip and creates a ground, either this pin is really dirty and not returning to its down position or they is a short to ground somewhere in that wire. Hope this helps.
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