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looks like issue is still happening to my posts. Replied here and it isn’t showing up
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while looking for something else, I ran across a video of a guy who had the same problem. He thought it was a fuse issue too. That was NOT correct.
removing and reinstalling the fuse got it to reset and work, but the actual problem was a power wire that was just barely going to ground when the truck was driving and then not going to ground when truck was sitting.
in his case, the wire in question was the driver side sun visor. The wire was pinched and when he hit just the right bump in the road it touched metal and went to ground.
Hope this helps.
removing and reinstalling the fuse got it to reset and work, but the actual problem was a power wire that was just barely going to ground when the truck was driving and then not going to ground when truck was sitting.
in his case, the wire in question was the driver side sun visor. The wire was pinched and when he hit just the right bump in the road it touched metal and went to ground.
Hope this helps.
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I'm pretty sure now its a short somewhere. Tried the vista roof today and it didn't work. Haven't moved the truck between taking out and putting back in the fuse and trying it today. But, I had gone out to the road and our common driveway has many bumps and potholes from the weather. So I hit a couple of them. So, I was coming home from work and I decided to hit a pothole in our common driveway and see if that would fix it. Parked it in front of my house and tried it...it worked. Really weird...
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Sounds something like a problem I had with a truck years ago. Every time I made a left turn the dome light would come on for a few seconds. It turned out that the wire running up inside the liner had been hitting against a sharp edge and finally wore through the insulation, and the sharp edge was grounding it.
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Sounds something like a problem I had with a truck years ago. Every time I made a left turn the dome light would come on for a few seconds. It turned out that the wire running up inside the liner had been hitting against a sharp edge and finally wore through the insulation, and the sharp edge was grounding it.
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Well, and update on the vista roof. It wasn't a wire, wish it was, it was the motors. Evidently something wasn't making a connection that allowed it to talk between them. The wiring was good all the way to the motors. So that's a possibility too. Why two motors that communicate between them so if one goes bad the other doesn't work? I get it for the rain theory, but they can think maybe of something better. Only ford can answer that....
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So I posted it was solved, haah. The problem rears its ugly head again. I was having some weird problems. My wife's car is down so she's driving my car. The F150 has been my daily commute for about a week. I took the thing that plugs into my OBD port that disconnects my start/stop. Came home, tried to close the vista roof, no go. So Saturday I pulled the fuses and lo and behold, it worked. Came out this morning and tried it, no go. Went to where I was going and tried it, no go. So, on a whim I shut off the engine and started it again and wallah, the vista roof works perfect! WTF... I really don't know what to think. Frustrating...