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I fixed my car----on the Internet!

  • Dec. 17th, 2008 at 9:19 AM
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Had to have my car jump-started on a cold morning recently. Everything seemed fine until that night, when none of the dashboard lights came on. I couldn't see how fast I was going or where any of the heating controls were. I still had exterior lights, at least.

Went to the auto parts store and had all the fuses checked. They were all OK.

I didn't want to take the car in to the garage because anything they did, they would still charge me for an hour of labor @ $75/hour.
And I poked around on the Internet and found that my problem might be a computer module called a BCM, that would cost $1,000.00 to replace.
And I didn't have time to take a car day!

So I did what anyone would do. I googled BCM and Dodge repair, and found a site called www.justanswer.com.
You have to pay, and it costs more if you want a faster answer.
I went for the cheapest option and sent "Mark, a Dodge expert" $9.00.

Three hours later, Mark wrote back and told me to take the cables off of the car battery, hold the ends together for a minute, and reattach the cables, and that would reset the BCM.

I got the maintenance guy at work to do it, and it worked!!!! I have dashboard lights again! The clock needed resetting but everything else was perfect!  Hooray for the Internet!

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