(Pt 2 - 4th of July Special) Ram ABS Saga...(CEL ON, Can't Pass Inspection!) 

I like the way you dont panic when everything goes wrong Ivan, and just laugh, good luck....Fred

You'll love Dormans new video, "bulletproof pentastar" not an oem part in sight, Ivans hell 😂

Whatever you got, I need some. Your personality alone is gold. I would be beyond flustered because I am so old school. I still remember vividly the day I realized that there was a difference between metric and SAE. True story.

In the auto repair business for 47 years. Retired in 2016. I'm so glad to be out of the business. One of these days the automakers will marry every single part to that vehicle and you won't even be able to replace a water pump or starter without paying the dealer to rewrite the VIN @ 200.00 bucks a pop!

The repair job that keeps on giving. It must be madding when no one really knows what the correct part numbers are

I think anybody that can repair these modern cars with all these over complicated computer systems deserves a medal or an easier job

Had a 2015 Ram. Drove phenomenally well. Very comfortable. Towed great. Zero problems. Just had a feeling I'd run into this kind of stuff eventually. I sold it and put my 2000 Excursion back into service with some small fixes.

My weekend entertainment is watching your amazing ability. Stand tall and proud Ivan

Sometimes it can be a pain trying to bleed a brake system that's been all apart. I did a master cylinder on a GMC Sierra recently that was a nightmare to get bled right. I used a pressure bleeder probably did 5 or 6 complete bleeds plus the ABS Pump bleed procedure several times also. I did finally get it bled though, never had that much trouble bleeding a brake system before. Not sure why that truck was such a pain.

New OEM repair parts availability is a real problem, good luck with the older trucks.

The VIN re-write went better than I expected. Sometimes when manufacturers make running changes within the model year it can be confusing what you have and what you need to repair it. In 500,000 miles the 'ol Marquis has never given me any issues with the anti-lock brakes, so the next time I turn the key it will fail. Your shirt didn't come off on this one; I want to see the conclusion. GREAT VIDEO!

What a saga with that thing. Kudos to Ivan for his determination.

You'd think that the scanner could turn that damned dinger off! LOL

That truck is Ivan’s boomerang 🪃. He threw it out and it came right back.

From 2004, cars suck . Dumb electronics. Many parts made to fail. It has become a scam. Glad I'm out of it, mostly ! Window cleaning, car cleaning, painting, grass cutting. Much easier, less outlay, happier customers. Car owners expect miracles, for pennies. I put up an expenses board including tools and equipment costs. Something to point at when they tried to get discount. No car left without payment in full. When asked for credit, I asked if they could get our supplier's to wait longer and the supermarkets to let me have food and wait until I get paid b4 paying, then they could have credit. They paid. Special orders paid for upfront. Work sheets signed off and work approval forms signed. A friend of mine gave people the benefit of credit and they obviously let him down. It's a difficult trade. All trades are. They require skill, knowledge and experience. And expensive tools. Getting payed is an ordeal sometimes

It is never fixed until Ivan is wearing his Rock Star sunglasses!

Dodge abs the gift that keeps on giving

I'm a Dealer Tech: I just had a 16 Ram w/water intrusion into the ABS connector and module which caused multiple MIL lights when the ABS module was communicating and when it was off the bus the truck would start but NOT shift from park, and the module to HCU bolts were corroded into the HCU and broke off when I attempted to remove them,I'm glad I checked them before selling the job. So ovbiously it needed an ABS module,HCU and connector repair kit. This was in early April 2024 The HCU and connector kit were a day away, the ABS module JUST came in last week July 2024 it took 3 MONTHS to get this module from Mopar. What a JOKE. This is not an uncommon problem on these Ram's

A wise old Mechanic told me back in the day, "If you go to the buffet and eat everything, you're going to get sick"....it took me years to figure out what he meant by that...I finally figured out what he meant.....RIP Hilley Newman....

Amazing work

that ABS and brake work was a very tough job..my old Civic is not leaving me..ever...Outstanding work,I'm glad somebody gets it right,

Ivan, clearly your concern is customer satisfaction. This is why you are so well known and admired. As far as all these failed attempts to service the ABS, this is clearly a case of poor vehicle design.

Amazing repair, finding all the parts

Excellent work Ivan

Nice catch on the 'initialization.' Thanks Ivan!

The Ram, owner and mechanic will never be happy, its the nature of the beast. Junkyard is happiness.

What a mess! It's unbelievable that a vehicle can look so good and be so new, and yet be nearly impossible to repair. And then tools that are less useful after an "upgrade". What a mess!

I bought a Mazda from the dry state of Texas. All kinds of rot started showing up. Green crusties. Coastal areas, and river areas abound with flood cars. It was taken to a southern state known for washing branded titles. Just a caveat on buying parts. Good video, thanks/

and the saga continues

No wonder I like watching Ivan. A customer dropped by 2 weeks ago. He told me about a local shop could not repair his car ABS system. I got it under my shade tree. Plugged my scanner in. A few ABS codes popped up. He had told me that the shop had tried. I took a look at the module. The harness was not completely seated. Cleaned up the connector and reseated it. This time less codes. Still not happy. After spending a few hours of back and forth. Bad module. Found one nearby. Since I'm working I don't have the luxury of spending time all day. I work on a vehicle. Then I have to call the customer and get the customer to get the part. I installed the used module and it's working. Now the final scan. Not happy. Steering wheel sensor is bad now. He gets the part ordered. Wrong part. He had reordered the sensor. Waiting now.

Well, that was not the ending I had expected.

Great video, Ivan! I don’t know how you keep from going insane working on these cars! 😵‍💫

You're like me in that the tough ones show up after everyone else has had their hands on them. My latest is a 2002 Toyota Tacoma V6 rodent chewed injector #1 wiring harness and blew the driver in the PCM. Now waiting on the power transistor to replace the blown one. Wish me luck. Thanks Ivan!

...sorry to see the saga continues...

Ivan, I'm gonna have to ask you to make videos daily. My coffee tastes better when I have PHAD to go with it. XD The catfish were shy yesterday, but I did haul in a gar that was about 40-45 pounds. That bad boy was 55" long and fat! I don't eat that crap, but they are a blast to catch on rod and reel. In that spot I have landed a 48", 50", 52" 55" and a 58" gar. All on rod and reel. Maybe I should be come a gar fisherman. o.0

Always interesting videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧

Good Work!

Nice video Ivan.

Bless Sorry to hear about the Think Pro. As a future one time scanner buyer, it's hard to choose. Another AWESOME 👏 repair. Thanks 😊

Awesome

I can't believe the Ram is back. I would have gave up a long time ago

I was going to say happy ending, but that last message leaves you thinking. It's a major issue that manufacturers treat cars as disposable, after only a few years on the road. Having no replacement electronic parts makes repairing almost impossible. Hope you sort this out, Ivan! Waiting for an unexpected Part 3.

Oh boy, I was afraid of that. Using used parts has to somewhat stress Your phenomenal guarantee policy. That’s gotta be a bit of a hurdle. Perhaps that was not the issue in this case. We will see. I’ve got a Big Horn to check out today, one that You repaired many years ago. They put new batteries in it and illuminated the dash holiday lights! Truck was also in a very serious front end compaction event a couple years ago and they had it resurrected. Should be interesting. We will see. 👍👍🇺🇸

I'm working on a 2015 chevy express with similar issue, KINDA. A car lot I diagnose for bought a 2015 chevy express from auction. The van was ONLY missing the abs motor not the model or hydraulic model/unit. The car lots mechanic took a motor from a parts van they had and installed just the motor. If anyone's familiar with that abs unit they know the motor has a lobe on the shaft, you can't just slide the motor in. The mechanic forced it in broke some stuff and nothing worked. I told the car lot to buy a unit. They bought a used unit and their mechanic installed the unit. After bleeding the system numerous times plus using the scanner he couldn't get a pedal. Then I get a second call to come down After doing the self bleed with the scan tool 4 times the pedal was back, abs motor worked as it should. The next day I get a call the abs lights on and they can't communicate with the abs. I go down there because I was in the area that same day and the abs was dead. I'm not sure what happened but I'm going down there Monday to find out. I only had a scanner with me so I couldnt really do the test I wanted to.

These trucks have like 5 variations of brake light switches 😄

haha, wouldn't be a holiday special if it were THAT easy and wrapped up in two episodes!

Great job Ivan, i hope the 7377 viewers are all subscribers >> love when you think out of the box .

Ivan did not have to go RAMBO on this case study. Great job Ivan!

I have 3 1996 Chevy 1500 trucks. One of them had a problem with the ABS, I replaced the Kelsey Hayes unit with a rebuilt unit (same part number) and it didn’t fix it. I looked at my 86 truck and master cylinder and booster looked identical so I got brake lines for an 86 and replanned the lines, pulled the ABS fuse and the brakes are much better than any of the 96s and now you can bleed the brakes at the wheels without all the BS

There is likely a procedure to reset the "permanent" codes. It usually involves driving a specific drive cycle and as long as the malfunction is no longer present, you would be able to reset the code, again, following a specific procedure and order of operations.

Man, 90s cars were the best. Reasonably modern but no stupid computers where there's no need for them. And even if the ECU dies you can always Megasquirt it.

I use an adjustable shower curtain rod for my brake pedal depressor tool. 😁🚿

One way to pass emissions with a small evap leak is to disconnect the battery since that will reset the test cycle which takes like 48h (on a RAM 2014) to complete, so during that time the code won´t set and you can get it inspected and then continue to find the problem while driving the car. Great video, learned a lot.

Morning Ivan and the PHAD family.

I had that problem on my 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitra, Abs module failed and Suzuki wanted $1800 for a new ABS pump and module plus labor. Bought one off Ebay for $200 and it worked just fine then I found another unit on Ebay for $80 so I bought it for a back up. Luckily I didn't have to deal with vin numbers. Saved my self 2K

Ivan to brakes: "Do you bleed?" Brakes: "Maybe..."

I always get the part number from the dealer because EBay has a lot of part numbers in place of the fitment vehicle information of the make and model.

I would bet that when the brake booster code sets it uses the ABS pump to try and "boost" the brake pressure to make up for a failing vacuum booster. The code set with all the brake pumping and messing around with the module.

I'll never understand what people see in Dodge Chrysler products.

We went through this 6 months ago on a 2010 Ford Escape. Brake pedal almost to floor, then pumped up by depressing pedal, it would go back down. Replaced master cylinder still no good. Then did abs bleed but still no good. Bled all brakes manually, did the abs bleed again on scan tool, still no good. Did abs bleed again 2 more times then suddenly all worked well and has ever since. This all began with sudden hard braking causing abs to initiate, then pedal went to near the floor. I don't know if these are just to complicated with too many hydraulic circuits or what, but the stated procedure for repair did not work several times, then, out of the blue, it was good again. Still don't know if it was the master cylinder or the abs module and have no way to determine which or either were bad/defective. Newer cars are nasty to work on. Inititially took it in to a shop who stated it needed new rear brakes. However, visual inspection by us indicated that was a bad diagnosis. This caused us to dig in to this situation ourselves and glad we did. Shop wanted $475 for rear brakes (outrageously expensive). We repaired it for under $100 and never touched the rear brakes other than bleeding them and fronts as well during the above procedure. Since brakes are vital (more so than engine) and are needed for safe operation of vehicle they should be rock solid in design without ABS modules. Oh, when they work they are great but when they don't you may not have ANY brakes. How does that make a vehicle more safe??!!

I don't know how you keep your sanity Ivan. These newer cars would drive me insane.

205489 on my 12. No warning indicators. Plenty of rust though.😢 I always recommend using a pressure bleeder. I have chased air pockets too many times especially on Mopar vehicles.

Install it

You're not alone in your part # nightmare on these trucks. Mopar makes so many part # variants and revisions it's insane! I once came across a RAM truck that had 24 different windshield part #s for the first 6 months of MY production, and half of them didn't even fit the hole... I'm curious what this glitch ends up being! Definitely not something I've run across before! :)

Looks like Ivan smoking a bong. Invite me over!

You mentioned the new Tundra....I wonder if Toyota will get the engine issue sorted out. I feel like the 2nd gen with the very reliable 5.7 has gone up in value. I am keeping my 20 Tundra till i die. Based on my YT channels, Stellantis is going bankrupt. The brand is in a world of hurt.

If it's a booster vacuum signal fault, check the crimps at the vacuum pressure sensor connector terminals. I've had heaps of them have poor contact causing intermittent drop-outs of the the signal. Can send you photos.,

Breakfast time!!

Awesome, how you check n double check.

With the ABS module hanging on the cable, any internal G sensor or accelerometer calibration would have been messed up as it had a different orientation when installed - that would need the initialisation re-running to set the true neutral G values. Until then, the acceleration readings could have been totally wrong and causing the unit to mis-interpret what was actually happening, & malfunction.

Again, a check of original ABS controller for broken solder joints on the PCB pins would be an educational exercise.

I know the older Mopar Vin is wrote during abs module Initialize

The 10th VIN position is the year. So "J" will be a 2018. It started over in 2010 with "A" which could be a 1980 or a 2010.

Wow Glitches are my nightmare.

20:55 "Afre" 🤔🤦‍♂ I know it's been a hott 2024 summer....... buhhht 😊🤣

Hokyshate I'm heading out to try this on mine lol. I've done this 100 times and it hasn't recoded the vin but I'm gana try it again lol.

Hopefully he got that POS inspected before the glitch came back !!

We made a tool to pressure fill the ABS pump before Install. Maybe ?

PITA!!!!

wait 'till these eBAY sellers discover the pricing power they have

Not going to lie, this job is giving me anxiety.

Elwood: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses." Ivan: "Hit it."

TUNDRA GOOD

Who invented the check engine light ? Where does he live ?

The more I watch the problems with modern cars, the more I want an old LADA.

I knew on your test drive when you started bragging how nice that dodge rode and it was a nice truck that you would jinx yourself. lol Nobody will ever talk me into owning a dodge! But I like your Trump sign. 😊

It wouldn’t be a PHAD case study if there weren’t a few glitches. 😂😂

I'm with you on the update for the Think tool pros. I'm guessing no way of going back is there?

I'm waiting for delivery of a cheap obd diag tool for my Aussie'06 V6 Holden Commodore 3.6 so I can clear the 180,000 km service indicator. I hope I don't have to go through all the bs poor Ivan has to go through! Tool is cheap enough to chuck in the river if it P's me off too much! I'm not as tolerant & patient as Ive though THAT'S for sure! Let's hope for success with this billygoat pickup in part 3 Ivan!

CHRYSLER PRODUCT. ENOUGH SAID

The dealership would have totalled this truck.

A green topology brings Ivan his green money income.

Hopefully the glitch was just a Chrysler thing.

Surely those open toe work boots are the wrong part number?

So over sensor fitted. Where do I buy a model T?

I'd expect a bad connection somewhere if it's behaving badly.

Ivan! Great vid but can you control the dinger? Buckle seatbelt behind you? Or close da door?

Hello Ivan, it's tough right now with Chrysler!, I'm repairing a COPART 2020 PACIFICA , parts are scarce even used parts and quality of new parts is dim.

I have a Plantinum s10 updated to current software and it’s still great. What was bothering you about the Pros software after the latest updates?

Ivan, have you thought about the Topdon Phoenix series scanners? They are fantastic.