Coming back to unfortunately report that the fix was not fully successful.
At this point, the car runs fine if the weather is dry. After/during any good rain, however, the electrical problems come back.
Since repairing the grounds, the issues now exclusively happen in wet conditions, are...
Just wanted to update this post for anyone that comes across it searching. My symptoms completely resolved after grinding down the two grounds to the chassis by the driver and passenger wheels.
I used an angle grinder with a flapwheel, got down to bare metal, used some dielectric grease, and...
I have a new negative battery cable to install, but I am having trouble with the connections. I found the 10mm ground right behind the passenger wheel, which should be easy enough, but it seems like the 13mm is connected to an impossible to reach bolt on the engine block. If I were to remove...
Thanks! VT here, so the salt is definitely doing its thing...
Best I can do for pictures right now is the two grounds I checked!
G218 -
G??? (behind driver wheel) -
The second one is the one I flapwheeled down to metal~ish and put dielectric grease on
Car wouldn't even click, the button was just trying to (I think) go into and out of accessory mode - no attempt made to actually start.
I have since found a horribly corroded ground on the frame behind the drivers wheel. I ground that down to bare metal, put some dielectric grease on it, and...
I have been having intermittent problems with a 2015 Tahoe. This has happened 4-5 times over the last 6 months. About half happened while driving, the other half were a fail to start condition that once started still displayed symptoms.
Symptoms include:
All IPC gauges go to zero, but are...
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