No power to the trailer plug

From : john

Q: i checked the fuse and its fine. is there a relay or fusible link im missing power for that pin comes from fuse #1 in the ipm. it leaves the ipm as a red/orange wire. its spliced under the dash to provide the power lead for the brake controller connector and then runs to a 14-pin connector down by the firewall bulkhead connector. from the other side of that connector its a white/red wire that runs to the trailer tow connector the ten-pin connector that the 7-way trailer plug connects to. if youre positive the fuse is good check for power at pin #1 of the trailer brake controller connector. if you have voltage there youve got a break in the wiring between the firewall connector and the back of the truck. if you have no voltage at the brake controller connector youve got a wiring problem back up to the ipm fuse box .

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From : john

on mon 16 oct 2006 120611 gmt stormin mormon cayoung61-&spamblock*-@hotmail.com wrote we need the luck let me tell you. after my first dodge 1974 dodge dart i swore up and down id never own another mopar. well stupid me im on my 4th at the moment. i swore that i would not own another dodge as well. looks like other people feel the same dealers balk as chrysler strains to cut inventory by neal e. boudette october 16 2006; page a3 detroit -- daimlerchrysler ags chrysler group is running into resistance from some big dealers to its latest efforts to shrink its bloated inventory of unsold vehicles a development that could make it harder for chrysler to bounce back from an expected loss in the third quarter. since warning in september that it will report a loss of $1.5 billion for the quarter -- more than twice what it had previously forecast -- chrysler has temporarily halted production at several plants and stepped up appeals to dealers to take more of the 50000 or so vehicles the company has in storage because they were built without dealer orders. the dealers reluctance to take more of chryslers new vehicles raises questions about how soon chrysler will be able to recover from its third-quarter loss. chrysler chief tom lasorda and the companys top marketing executive joe eberhardt meet today in detroit with more than 100 dealers from the midwest the first of eight annual regional meetings where they will renew pleas to increase orders. last week chrysler added as much as $1500 in sales incentives for vehicles that have sat on dealer lots for six months or more. profit plunge in an interview at the paris auto show in september mr. eberhardt said chryslers vision is to reduce the sales bank of unassigned vehicles to normal levels by the end of the year. one thing is clear. we built inventory that was just too high he said. but some of the big dealership chains and many smaller dealers around the u.s. say they already have too many chrysler vehicles and wont take more. we are not ordering additional chrysler inventory said earl hesterberg chief executive of group 1 automotive inc. a houston chain of 101 car dealerships. i wish we hadnt bought as much as we did before. autonation inc. the largest auto retailer in the u.s. with 333 stores has also declined to take extra vehicles a spokesman said. the company is trying to reduce its inventory of chrysler vehicles and is ordering only select models that are selling well such as the new dodge caliber and jeep compass. lithia motors inc. an oregon dealership chain took extra vehicles earlier in the year to help chrysler trim its inventory but didnt do so at the end of september chairman and chief executive sid deboer said. chrysler spokesman jason vines yesterday acknowledged that the dealers stance makes it tougher to sell off the companys stockpile of vehicles. some are doing it some arent he said. were not forcing this on them. the company has said it expects to fare better in the fourth quarter with new models like a compact jeep and a redesigned chrysler sebring sedan. many of the vehicles swelling inventories are ram pickup trucks jeep sport-utility vehicles and dodge minivans as chrysler and the other u.s. auto makers have seen demand fall for their most profitable big models amid higher gasoline prices. as of last month chryslers inventory included just under 100000 unassigned vehicles the company built without dealer orders in hand. mr. vines declined to give a more current figure but said the stock of unassigned vehicles is now about half of what it was in mid-september reiterating that chrysler expects it to be gone zero by the end of the year. manufacturers try to avoid building vehicles without dealer orders because they could have to sell such excess production at money-losing prices often to rental-car companies. at an average sticker price of $25000 the 100000 unassigned vehicles in chryslers sales bank last month would ordinarily generate about $2.5 billion in revenue. chrysler has said it plans to reduce its inventory of some 600000 vehicles in stock to around 500000 a goal that will be difficult to hit without deeper production cuts if dealers are reluctant to order. at an auto auction in detroit last week about 1400 nearly new chrysler jeep and dodge vehicles were on sale many of which had spent the past six months in rental fleets and had only 10000 to 20000 miles on them. these vehicles were being sold to dealers for about half of the invoice prices dealers pay for new models. one silver jeep grand cherokee laredo previously owned by dollar rent a car had 16740 miles on its odometer. a dealer would pay $31128 for the car new but this one went for $16300. dealers said the car would probably sell for about $23000 at a dealership. .

From : tom lawrence

ed h. wrote 99 ram 1500 im thinking of swapping the circuits for the power windows and power seat so that the windows go up and down and the seat does not move with the ignition off by running short jumper wires between the respective circuit breakers in the drivers side fuse/junction block location. they are both 20 amp breakers. the way i envision the setup is to have the circuit breakers out of their normal location with jumper wires running to the junction block connections. that has been done before and it works. read http//www.dodgeram.org/tech/mods/electric/windowpower.htm -- ken .