John Squires
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My wife could not get the car up a steep driveway that was icy, so she put the vehicle in park, shut off the engine, got out of the car, grabbed all the dogs, then walked the rest of the way up the driveway to deliver the dogs to the groomer. When she arrived at the house, approx. 3 minutes after leaving the vehicle, she heard a noise, turned around and the car was gone. It had slid down and off the icy driveway, into the woods, through lots of brush, bushes, downed tree limbs, etc. until it stopped about 150-200 feet from its starting point. I drove to her location to pull the car out with the assistance of the groomer's husband.
When I went to the car and turned it on, all of the dash trouble lights were on. I tried restarting the car several times but they remained on. We pulled the car about 60 feet using a winch attached to the Genesis tool that screws into the frame through the front bumper. I then checked to see if the vehicle would drive, and it did, so we started home. As it turns out, all of the lights represented real problems. Here is a list of the lights:
1. check engine light
2. low tire pressure and TPMS lights (due to dead batteries in the sensors)
3. ESC (stability control)
4. EPB (parking brake)
5. Key not in Vehicle (maybe due to low battery in key fob)
6. AUTO HOLD lit (pushing/pulling button would not extinguish light)
7. Air bag failure
8. 3 red symbols at the top - something to do with the radar sensors for adaptive cruise control and sensor that warns you when parking when you're getting close to the curb
9. Door open, which it was
10. Another light at the top right of the dash would occasionally blink on, then quickly go off. I think it said TLS, but perhaps had 4 characters.
When driving the car with these lights on, I discovered that these were all real problems. No stability control or anti-lock brakes (car drove like a 65 cadillac with the rear end spinning out at the slightest patch of snow.) No cruise control. No parking brake, no radar sensors.
In addition, the coolant temperature and Tachometer gauges both remained at zero. And the worst thing was that the transmission would not shift while in Drive (automatic shifting mode). If I switched it to manual shifting mode, I could shift it up/down by listening to the engine speed, as the tach was not working. It would shift abruptly, but reliably. The gear indicator light (shows what gear, 1-8, you're in) did not work.
On the following day, I took it for a test drive. It had all the same problems. Then all the lights went off (except the check engine light, seatbelt malfunction light, and the tire pressure lights that were due to dead batteries). During this brief time, everything worked - transmission, anti-lock brakes, ESC, radar sensors. That lasted for just a few minutes, then all the lights cambe back on and remain on.
The path the vehicle took did have some large branches, logs and rocks that would have hit the bottom of the car. The front bumper has a big dent by the driver-side fog light and shows some kinking on the passenger side front and wheel well.
I hooked up an OBD II scanner to the vehicle and it does not connect. The scanner does work on my other vehicle.
I will probably report this to my insurance company, but I wanted to start here in case someone has seen this set of symptoms before. Maybe there's some magic cable or computer module underneath the car that could cause all of these problems to occur at the same time.
I've included a photo of the dash.
Thanks much.
John Squires
When I went to the car and turned it on, all of the dash trouble lights were on. I tried restarting the car several times but they remained on. We pulled the car about 60 feet using a winch attached to the Genesis tool that screws into the frame through the front bumper. I then checked to see if the vehicle would drive, and it did, so we started home. As it turns out, all of the lights represented real problems. Here is a list of the lights:
1. check engine light
2. low tire pressure and TPMS lights (due to dead batteries in the sensors)
3. ESC (stability control)
4. EPB (parking brake)
5. Key not in Vehicle (maybe due to low battery in key fob)
6. AUTO HOLD lit (pushing/pulling button would not extinguish light)
7. Air bag failure
8. 3 red symbols at the top - something to do with the radar sensors for adaptive cruise control and sensor that warns you when parking when you're getting close to the curb
9. Door open, which it was
10. Another light at the top right of the dash would occasionally blink on, then quickly go off. I think it said TLS, but perhaps had 4 characters.
When driving the car with these lights on, I discovered that these were all real problems. No stability control or anti-lock brakes (car drove like a 65 cadillac with the rear end spinning out at the slightest patch of snow.) No cruise control. No parking brake, no radar sensors.
In addition, the coolant temperature and Tachometer gauges both remained at zero. And the worst thing was that the transmission would not shift while in Drive (automatic shifting mode). If I switched it to manual shifting mode, I could shift it up/down by listening to the engine speed, as the tach was not working. It would shift abruptly, but reliably. The gear indicator light (shows what gear, 1-8, you're in) did not work.
On the following day, I took it for a test drive. It had all the same problems. Then all the lights went off (except the check engine light, seatbelt malfunction light, and the tire pressure lights that were due to dead batteries). During this brief time, everything worked - transmission, anti-lock brakes, ESC, radar sensors. That lasted for just a few minutes, then all the lights cambe back on and remain on.
The path the vehicle took did have some large branches, logs and rocks that would have hit the bottom of the car. The front bumper has a big dent by the driver-side fog light and shows some kinking on the passenger side front and wheel well.
I hooked up an OBD II scanner to the vehicle and it does not connect. The scanner does work on my other vehicle.
I will probably report this to my insurance company, but I wanted to start here in case someone has seen this set of symptoms before. Maybe there's some magic cable or computer module underneath the car that could cause all of these problems to occur at the same time.
I've included a photo of the dash.
Thanks much.
John Squires
