eddie2fast
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mine is a 2013 R-Spec 5.0 with 42k miles; got it 5 months ago from CarMax; turns out it's missing a hood open/closed sensor; I also looked all around the vicinity of where the sensor should be, and I don’t even see any wiring with a connector at the end that would plug into the sensor
question1: in the absence of the sensor, would the car’s alarm system then read this situation as “hood open”? I’m asking this question because the car has a parasitic current draw problem; after only 5 days of non-use, the car will go dark and there is no response when pushing the start button. As I understand from reading the posts on this forum, when the alarm system reads the hood as “open”, it stays more on an active mode instead of being at rest, requiring more current from the battery. I’m guessing (not an electrical engineer here) that not having the sensor and the electrical connection to it makes that circuit open and so the car’s alarm system interprets that as “hood open”, thus the drain on the battery. hopefully someone knowledgeable on this forum will read this post and let us know.
question2: assuming no sensor means hood open, let’s say we don’t bother getting that sensor and go without it; is there something that can be done so the car’s alarm system will think that the hood is always closed? (in the old days, we would use a small paper clip and push the ends of it into the appropriate connector terminals to close the circuit)
question3: if there’s no way around except getting the hood sensor, where’s the wire that plugs into the sensor? many thanks in advance.
question1: in the absence of the sensor, would the car’s alarm system then read this situation as “hood open”? I’m asking this question because the car has a parasitic current draw problem; after only 5 days of non-use, the car will go dark and there is no response when pushing the start button. As I understand from reading the posts on this forum, when the alarm system reads the hood as “open”, it stays more on an active mode instead of being at rest, requiring more current from the battery. I’m guessing (not an electrical engineer here) that not having the sensor and the electrical connection to it makes that circuit open and so the car’s alarm system interprets that as “hood open”, thus the drain on the battery. hopefully someone knowledgeable on this forum will read this post and let us know.
question2: assuming no sensor means hood open, let’s say we don’t bother getting that sensor and go without it; is there something that can be done so the car’s alarm system will think that the hood is always closed? (in the old days, we would use a small paper clip and push the ends of it into the appropriate connector terminals to close the circuit)
question3: if there’s no way around except getting the hood sensor, where’s the wire that plugs into the sensor? many thanks in advance.
