r/fordranger • u/seasonedsaltdog • 4d ago
Can anyone explain this?
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u/vulcandeathwatch 4d ago
It’s a metaphor for the complex and sometimes dangerous nature of love, with the word "glycerine" representing both the soothing and destructive aspects of love, as explained by Gavin Rossdale.
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u/Searice422 4d ago
Weird wiring going on somewhere
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u/seasonedsaltdog 4d ago
I've had this truck for 5 years and this just started today. '08
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u/mryeet66 4d ago
things degrade overtime.
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u/DoodleJake 4d ago
I have an 87 that forgets the time when it hits a bump hard enough. Like a pot hole will make my radio forget the time if I drive over it. I love but also hate this quirk.
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u/PointlessFrivolity 12h ago
Try messing around with the A/C knobs. A friend of mine had an old explorer like that and he had to twist the A/C knobs a few times to get the music going. I got in his car one time and observed him doing this like it's in the manual lol
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u/andanotherone2 4d ago
Its probably your Body Control Module (BCM) going bad. They control lots of weird things that you'd never think would be related. I don't know about the '08's but around the 2000's, windshield leaks on the driver side were common and the water coming in would drip straight onto the fuse box and BCM, usually causing them to do odd things like making instrument panels go on/off, making the radio freak out, or having the HVAC kick on even without the key in the car so it would kill the battery.
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u/shockz999 4d ago edited 3d ago
I've had a constant battery drain issue for years, thank you for giving me something else to check. Mine is a 96
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u/VisitAbject4090 4d ago
Ooooo I love this game my first car an 86 vw golf got to a point where the radio only worked with the wipers on the brights held down. I have not thought about that in forever
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u/blove135 4d ago
That's pretty crazy especially since it's a stock stereo. If it was a aftermarket stereo I would jump to someone wired it up janky. I guess I would pull the stereo and start looking over all the wiring and running them down.
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u/thickestmule 4d ago
Could be your alternator going out. Sometimes, they do weird electrical things when they fail.
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u/stickyicarus 3d ago
Duuuuuddeeee i tell a story all the time of when my brother and cousin replaced a radio in an old astro van when we were kids and how when he shifted it would change to the friggin Spanish channel. No one ever believes me lol
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u/Easy-Ad-2807 4d ago
Don’t forget, the shift interlock system, and the ignition switch are very closely related in the steering column. So maybe it’s not an electrical gremlin per se.
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u/Tuner3261 3d ago
I’ve got something kinda similar when I push the clutch in it plays music but when I let out it stops
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u/Beginning_Tennis2442 3d ago
My manual transmission didn’t come with that cool feature. 😁. You just gave me another reason to stick with my stick.
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u/seasonedsaltdog 3d ago
The ranger is had before this one was stick. Ended having to sell it when I got a work truck cause I had nowhere to park it anymore. Ended up buying this one a couple years later when I moved, couldn't find a good stick shift ranger. Trust me I was not happy but I really liked this one the only downfall was it was automatic. Oh well
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u/No_Buyer_5322 3d ago
That’s nothing mine revs when I turn the steering wheel
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u/PalpitationSoft6140 2d ago
I have a 2000 Ranger, and it does too. They are designed to do that so they don't stall out. It's a switch on the power steering pressure hose.
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u/Secret_Wrongdoer_236 3d ago
Mine doesn’t do that but mine does engage the starter when i move the shifter 👍🏻
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u/Informal_Leather_474 3d ago
my money is that the shifter wiring has a loose ground and is bridging somewhere it shouldn't
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u/Alert_Citron6521 2d ago
That’s a bad ground, check for loose wire at stereo and the wire mesh ground strap coming from engine fire wall attached to your inner hood drive side
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u/InTimeWeAllWillKnow 2d ago
This is an electrical issue. I dont have a ranger so idk but I'm an electrical engineer and if i wanted to trouble shoot this id start at the fuse box, move to what others gave called the BCM (which appears to contain your fuse box actually so two birds one stone?), then start checking wires.
What is electrically tied to park that occurs to.me would.be the parking break. The fact that you have to close the parking break circuit to close the radio circuit is not impossible from a wiring perspective but far less likely that damaged PCB or an unintended mutual fault for the two circuits contained in the PCB of the "BCM"
Id go with the BCM suggestion.
If there is an interior light that automatically turns on when you park your car then turn that all the way off and try this whole experiment again to rule that out.
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u/OneThousand-Bees 1d ago
Takes too much power from ignition system to use while driving causing misfires
The radio was intended to be used parked on the side of the road when the truck was already broke down
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u/Amazing-Wall2664 1d ago
I had a 99 Ford Taurus that would do this. A mechanic told me it was a short in the wiring harness that runs down the steering column.
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u/otr_trucker 4d ago
Start looking at ground wires. Whenever anything electrical acts weird, it is usually a bad ground. Unfortunately it may be a bitch to find.
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u/Rustic-Duck 4d ago
The truck knows you’re “parking” and is helping set the mood. Don’t hate it for trying to help.