I have a 2003 F150. A couple months ago, as I was driving, everytime I pressed on the accelerator, there was a clicking noise coming from under the dash on the passenger side. I took it to the dealer for service, and they replaced the vacuum reservoir system and a couple spark plugs. Now, I have a new problem. When I soft-accelerate (don't press the gas pedal to the floor), it bucks and skips and is really scary when you're on your way home to the country 30 miles from civilization at night. I'm afraid if I take it back to the dealer for service, they'll come back with a ticket saying "unable to duplicate customer concern." If I have some idea of what's causing it, I can ask them to check that. Can anybody help me?

 

Sounds like a bad COP, get the codes read. Mine did the same thing, replaced the COP and its fine now.

 

I'm sorry, what is a COP?

 

COP=Coils on Plugs

 

90% sure its the COP had 2 go on my truck so far Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 4 I believe..

 

Thanks very much! That makes a lot of sense. I'll have that checked out.

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About 2 months ago, I took my truck to a car wash. They did a pretty good job cleaning, but I noticed afterward that my passenger side airbag indicator light on my dashboard (?) was on. The dashboard is where the speedometer and other indicator lights is located, right? Is this something I should get checked out?

 

try puting your key in the key hole beside the light and turn it to the off position

 

That's the very first thing I did -- several hundred times, actually. But it didn't work. The "off" light won't come on anymore, and the airbag indicator light stays on. At first it flashed, now it just stays on when I start the car...truck.

 

their is a sensor on the front of truck that maybe got wet damaged, try pulling the fuse out for an hour replace it and see if that resets it, if not I would get it checked out soon