Does this sound like an Aux battery issue?

[MyRight]

The other day, my wife was sitting in the Jeep and tried to unlock the doors from the door panel, but nothing happened. She had to use the remote to get them unlocked, because she wasn't familiar with the manual mechanism.

A few days later while stopping at the local dollar store, as I was existing the vehicle, I tried using the door panel lock and nothing either. I re-entered the vehicle and closed the door and then the locks worked, so I opened the door and the locks didn't work again. I then used my remote to get the doors locked.
I then proceeded into the store. As I exited the store and approached my Jeep, I noticed my engine was running, like as if I had used my remote start. I know I didn't hit the start button for that to occur.

I just now went and checked it again and everything is working like normal...

Any ideas?

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[ShadowsPapa]

The other day, my wife was sitting in the Jeep and tried to unlock the doors from the door panel, but nothing happened. She had to use the remote to get them unlocked, because she wasn't familiar with the manual mechanism.

A few days later while stopping at the local dollar store, as I was existing the vehicle, I tried using the door panel lock and nothing either. I re-entered the vehicle and closed the door and then the locks worked, so I opened the door and the locks didn't work again. I then used my remote to get the doors locked.
I then proceeded into the store. As I exited the store and approached my Jeep, I noticed my engine was running, like as if I had used my remote start. I know I didn't hit the start button for that to occur.

I just now went and checked it again and everything is working like normal...

Any ideas?

LOL, now that aux battery is being blamed for absolutely everything but global warming


No, it's not the aux battery. Why would it be? If the voltage is low, it's low across the board when the truck is just sitting there because they are in parallel.
Tip - ignore pretty much anything you read to do with that battery. Most of it is guesses, some if it's just based on hate, some on not understanding electrical systems.

To your immediate issues:
Have you had the doors off the truck?
Are you sure you shut it off that other time? Beyond a shadow of a doubt absolutely swear, you are certain you really shut it off and the tach went to 0? (I made a habit of looking at the tach as I exit as I've literally backed into the garage, put it in park, got distracted by something and exited my own truck with it running....... so I look at the tach as a reminder - did I really shut it off?
I can tell you this - my son used my truck while they were visiting from Florida.
TWO TIMES he got out, and when we got back to the truck, it was running.
He had not pressed the button to shut it off - and the engine is so quiet, neither of us realized it was still running. I told him he was lucky I was with him those two times - as he was using it for other trips and a long trip to north Iowa and if he got out and left it running, who knows how long it would run?
You said your truck was running - did you have to press the big round button to make it exit remote start mode, or was it running and ready to go?
There's a difference - remote start it says press brake, push the start button,
running otherwise, as if you exited without shutting down, you'd not have to press the brake and push the big start button on the dash.

If you've had the doors off, weird things can happen with the locks, both remote locks and the buttons on the doors if things didn't get plugged in absolutely down to the quantum level perfect.

 

[MyRight]

LOL, now that aux battery is being blamed for absolutely everything but global warming


No, it's not the aux battery. Why would it be? If the voltage is low, it's low across the board when the truck is just sitting there because they are in parallel.
Tip - ignore pretty much anything you read to do with that battery. Most of it is guesses, some if it's just based on hate, some on not understanding electrical systems.

To your immediate issues:
Have you had the doors off the truck?

Never have.

Are you sure you shut it off that other time? Beyond a shadow of a doubt absolutely swear, you are certain you really shut it off and the tach went to 0? (I made a habit of looking at the tach as I exit as I've literally backed into the garage, put it in park, got distracted by something and exited my own truck with it running....... so I look at the tach as a reminder - did I really shut it off?

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I can tell you this - my son used my truck while they were visiting from Florida.
TWO TIMES he got out, and when we got back to the truck, it was running.
He had not pressed the button to shut it off - and the engine is so quiet, neither of us realized it was still running. I told him he was lucky I was with him those two times - as he was using it for other trips and a long trip to north Iowa and if he got out and left it running, who knows how long it would run?
You said your truck was running - did you have to press the big round button to make it exit remote start mode, or was it running and ready to go?

It was running and ready to go. I used my remote to unlock the doors, pressed the brake and put it in Reverse to back out of the parking spot.

There's a difference - remote start it says press brake, push the start button,
running otherwise, as if you exited without shutting down, you'd not have to press the brake and push the big start button on the dash.

If you've had the doors off, weird things can happen with the locks, both remote locks and the buttons on the doors if things didn't get plugged in absolutely down to the quantum level perfect.

Yeah, I've never taken the doors off or unplugged the connections. I'm a bit boggled by the whole thing. Why the door locks wouldn't work one time, but do another time.
When my wife tried it, she was using the passenger side door panel when it didn't work and I was using the driver's side panel when it didn't work. Each time the remote did work.

And prior to making this thread, everything worked as expected.

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