Airbag light on and no more Cruise Control?
From : charles
Q: charles thought everyone should know i forgot to mention it is the 6-speed manual. charles wrote i have a 2001 dodge ram 2500 cummins td quad cab long bed and drove to fairplay co from golden co using the cruise control a week ago friday. i stopped at a friends house and when i left the air bag light came on intermittently at first then it was on contstantly. on monday we headed back to golden and when i push the cruise control switch it does not come on. no light and no cruise control. not sure if they are related. does anyone have any advice on getting these fixed is either a dealer only item i tried to check the airbag fuses but they are locked in and wont come out. i turned off the passenger air bag and the light still comes on. this truck has about 110 k miles and is a pretty basic truck. vinyl floor crank windows but it does have a/c and cruise control. come to think of it i need to recharge the a/c about twice a year and the previous owner 2 years ago had the system fixed and rechaged. any constructive advice would be appreciated. thanks in advance charles sounds to me like the clockspring went bad. common problem but the repair requires removing the steering wheel and drivers side air bag. -- chris .
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From : bob m
roy wrote on wed 4 jul 2007 103825 -0400 tbone tbonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote on tue 3 jul 2007 210747 -0400 tbone tbonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote on tue 3 jul 2007 080638 -0400 tbone tbonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote on mon 02 jul 2007 202653 gmt snoman admin@snoman.com wrote on mon 02 jul 2007 193054 gmt theguy@whatever.net wrote you cant even begin to make this go away snotroll. studs definately change the amount of friction available on the raod surface over a non studded tire. the tire manufacturers the stud man. and all of the safety information talk about that all of the time. make what go away you maybe you havent
From : jerry
i would say that depending on the tire it should be studs on the outer edge and rubber in the middle. if the entire tread is being held up be the studs then that tire is a pos and is no better than a fully studded version so what would be the point of making it that way now you are getting the picture. thats why they arent used much. ive not seen anybody with a set of studed tires on anything in years. the stud is located on the tread so that it makes contact with the snow or ice covered road. to attain traction the stud is forced into the ice by the weight of whatever it is mounted on. when there is dry pavement the stud is making contact with the road. so your traction and stopping ability is deminished big time. the blizak with the super sticky rubber gives you both super traction in ice and snow and dry or wet pavement as well. but use in hot temps will use them up real quick. also they should be used on all four wheels. .
From : jerry
miles thought everyone should know tbone wrote vista what a load of crap that one is. its basically xp sp4 with some fancy do nothing graphics. why do we need a new os every few years anyways often the main desire is for stability and compatibility. companies still run decades old software applications under unix on modern computers. our unix server has been rebooted a total of 5 times in 10 years not counting power outages. two of those times were when the server was upgrade. i reboot any windows pc a few times a week. i was hoping in another few years xp would become stable...but now we have a new os and start all over again. a stable windows...... shoot i remember 3.11 being buggy too and it ran on top of dos probably the most stable os that microsoft will ever put out. -- chris .
From : charles
is their a way to enable the high idle through the cruse controls on a 07 5.9 ctd 6 speed on an 04 it has to see the automatic in park to work. will not work on an 04 six speed according to my dealer. mine does go into high idle if its cold and it idles a while. al 04 six speed .
From : denny
denny wrote i cant argue that a few hundred pounds of weight doesnt make a big difference but the best thing you can do is get a good set of tires and not bias ply tires either. radials are much better in snow and ice. i run a set of revos year round and they do a great job plowing. they aint worth a shit in slimy mud tho... my durango came with goodyear wrangler rt/s tires. tried them only once in the snow. they quickly packed up with snow and became round ice wheels with zero traction. had 4wd but it was about useless. changed the tires for michelin cross terrains which are very similar to their ltx ms tires. huge difference. drove for a couple 100 miles through snow packed roads and the tires never once packed up. they stuck. .
From : chris thompson
max dodge wrote thus if my neighbor parks his kenworth in his driveway overnight it should be legal for him to do so. maybe maybe not. when i bought my house i looked for a neighborhood whose cc&rs prohibited such actions. the developers worked with the city to write the cc&rs to create the market for the neighborhood they wanted. people buying into that area bought the product they wanted. for them a clean nice looking neighborhood without big rigs broken down cars all over the front yard or other eye sores is why they bought there in the first place. the restrictions were part of the product being bought. .
From : charles
jmc wrote new system kicks butt though especially since i upgraded from a mere amd 64 3000+ w/1gb ram. what type of software are you running that would be slow on a amd 64 3000 i used to upgrade every couple years because speeds would double and triple or more every year. now we see gains of 10-20% each year and only in certain specific areas of computing. hard drives are still the bottleneck. sata is an improvement but we still are using a mechanical disc & head mechanism. ive used scsi for years. expensive but ran circles around ata. still use scsi in servers. .