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Feb 23, 2006 | 04:40 PM

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skilife17

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All I did when my key minder started dinging was just tap the ignition and it shut off.

Mar 3, 2006 | 12:42 PM

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myfordf150

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key minder ding

I have sprayed the door latches good with WD40 and the dome light issue seems to have resolved. I also thought this may help with the dinger but it hasn't. So I will try the graphite this weekend.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by BillyBob69

Is it the key minder dinging? Could be the ignition thinks the keys are still in it. Try some canned air in the ignition switch or a quick shot of graphite lube. It is powdered so it won't short out any contacts. Or try tapping on the ignition switch a little to see if you can shake loose the contacts.

Mar 17, 2006 | 02:58 PM

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jklmvincent

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Key reminder when keys removed

Before we got our 99F250LD, my wife drove a mercury Villager mini-van. She was forever locking her keys in the van, so we gave a spare key to a friend that she works with. Her friend drove a 98F150 which didn't have the security chipped ignition key. She would quite often try to put the van key in the truck. The key kinda fit, so she would slightly force it before realizing that the key was wrong.

Anyway, the F150 started doing the ding ding whenever the door opened regardless of where the key was. We took off the ignition switch and sure enough, that little tab at the bottom was bent. We were able to straighten it out enough so that the ding ding worked when it should. If we couldn't straighten it, I would have suggested simply removing it.

Hope this helps out anyone else who has the same thing.

Mar 17, 2006 | 08:52 PM

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Never Locked Out

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Mar 17, 2006 | 10:01 PM

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westclass

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Mine has done the light/bell thing alot ,I used wd-40 alot and it seems to work and when it rains the stupid thing does it again,I took the panels off to look at the switch and cant see thru the e-brake stuff,
How do you change the switch inthere as I think im going to need to do it
Any advise will help.

Mar 19, 2006 | 09:05 PM

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westclass

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Anyone out there?

Mar 19, 2006 | 09:19 PM

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Racerguy

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The switches are in the door latches. You have to remove the door panels to access them. I think there are some instructions in the FAQs at the top of the forum.

Nov 7, 2006 | 02:39 PM

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myfordf150

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Well, the WD-40 and graphite helped with the drawing down of the battery, but the damned dinging still goes on and one and.......

I noticed that sometimes when I remove the key and the moon is right, and ....it stops. So there must be something that the key contacts when inserted and/or removed. I seem to remember seeing something about disabling the g-spot for the key. Any suggestions?