Tonight, while driving on the freeway, I noticed that the blind spot warning system seemed not to be working. Odometer at 4,000 miles. Owned since October 2014.
Cars would be to the right and left of me, with all of us doing around 65 mph, and I noticed that the lights on the right and left side mirrors that indicate a vehicle is in the blind spot, were not illuminating as they usually do, when there are vehicles along side of you, in your blind spots.
I checked to see if the indicator light was on the button on the dash, and it was.
So, I decided to exit at the first available ramp, and pulled into a gas station, and stopped the car, turned it off, opened the door, and then, restarted the car.
I got back on the freeway, and the blind spot detectors started to work as usual.
I drove another 3 miles home uneventfully, however, when I turned off the ignition, the "window open" light came on, indicating one of the right side windows was open.
I looked and saw that neither one was open, then tried to roll them up from the driver's console on the arm rest, after restarting the car.
After pressing all of the window buttons "up", to make sure they were all up, and visually inspecting all of them to make doubly sure, I turned the ignition off again, and the "window open" light came on again.
I restarted the car once again, and tried to roll all the windows down, and then up again. The driver's side windows, both front and rear, operated normally, however, the passenger side windows, both front and rear, would not operate, either up or down, using either the driver's console buttons, or the buttons on each passenger side door.
I double and triple checked to make sure the window lock feature wasn't depressed, and still, could not activate either passenger side window.
I stopped the ignition, the window open chime and warning came on, once again, but this time, opened the driver side door, then, shut it and started the car, once again.
After doing this, everything operated normally, all of the windows operated from the console, and from the actual doors themselves, and after turning off the ignition, the "window open' light did not activate, and now everything seems to be working as designed.
I guess now I'm wondering if this is something as trivial as the car being metaphorically "rebooted", (stopping the ignition, opening the door, and re-staring,or, if there's a symbiotic relationship to the blind spot warnings not working along with the window open warning, and the failure of the passenger side windows to operate, thereafter.
I'm curious if any of you other owners, either V6 or V8, ultimate or signature, have experienced something similar?
I'm also curious what the diagnostics of something like this issue would be, whether or not there are codes generated by these kind of issues by the inboard computer, or if these issues have to be ferreted out by a mechanic actually having to duplicate the issue in order to fix it?
Going to the dealer tomorrow. They're a very good service department.
We'll see what they have to say.
Cars would be to the right and left of me, with all of us doing around 65 mph, and I noticed that the lights on the right and left side mirrors that indicate a vehicle is in the blind spot, were not illuminating as they usually do, when there are vehicles along side of you, in your blind spots.
I checked to see if the indicator light was on the button on the dash, and it was.
So, I decided to exit at the first available ramp, and pulled into a gas station, and stopped the car, turned it off, opened the door, and then, restarted the car.
I got back on the freeway, and the blind spot detectors started to work as usual.
I drove another 3 miles home uneventfully, however, when I turned off the ignition, the "window open" light came on, indicating one of the right side windows was open.
I looked and saw that neither one was open, then tried to roll them up from the driver's console on the arm rest, after restarting the car.
After pressing all of the window buttons "up", to make sure they were all up, and visually inspecting all of them to make doubly sure, I turned the ignition off again, and the "window open" light came on again.
I restarted the car once again, and tried to roll all the windows down, and then up again. The driver's side windows, both front and rear, operated normally, however, the passenger side windows, both front and rear, would not operate, either up or down, using either the driver's console buttons, or the buttons on each passenger side door.
I double and triple checked to make sure the window lock feature wasn't depressed, and still, could not activate either passenger side window.
I stopped the ignition, the window open chime and warning came on, once again, but this time, opened the driver side door, then, shut it and started the car, once again.
After doing this, everything operated normally, all of the windows operated from the console, and from the actual doors themselves, and after turning off the ignition, the "window open' light did not activate, and now everything seems to be working as designed.
I guess now I'm wondering if this is something as trivial as the car being metaphorically "rebooted", (stopping the ignition, opening the door, and re-staring,or, if there's a symbiotic relationship to the blind spot warnings not working along with the window open warning, and the failure of the passenger side windows to operate, thereafter.
I'm curious if any of you other owners, either V6 or V8, ultimate or signature, have experienced something similar?
I'm also curious what the diagnostics of something like this issue would be, whether or not there are codes generated by these kind of issues by the inboard computer, or if these issues have to be ferreted out by a mechanic actually having to duplicate the issue in order to fix it?
Going to the dealer tomorrow. They're a very good service department.
We'll see what they have to say.
