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Truck in question is an 07 yukon xl. Intermittently, the back up lights will stay on. Engine can be running, in park, drive etc. More often, it happens when parking/locking the truck. Lock with the key fob, back up lights stay on. Has run the battery dead twice, now my wife checks that they go out before she walks away. When they do stay on, you can often get them to shut off by repeatedly unlocking and re-locking the truck with the key fob. Occasionally, if that doesn't work, starting the truck and shutting off gets them off. Once, nothing would work, so i disconnected the battery for a min or so, and then when i reconnected, they were off.

 

Truck is under warranty, unfortunately, dealer 'can not duplicate' problem, and is unwilling to do anything without seeing the issue.

Any help appreciated, first american car in quite a while, and looking like the last one too.

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Truck in question is an 07 yukon xl. Intermittently, the back up lights will stay on. Engine can be running, in park, drive etc. More often, it happens when parking/locking the truck. Lock with the key fob, back up lights stay on. Has run the battery dead twice, now my wife checks that they go out before she walks away. When they do stay on, you can often get them to shut off by repeatedly unlocking and re-locking the truck with the key fob. Occasionally, if that doesn't work, starting the truck and shutting off gets them off. Once, nothing would work, so i disconnected the battery for a min or so, and then when i reconnected, they were off.

 

Truck is under warranty, unfortunately, dealer 'can not duplicate' problem, and is unwilling to do anything without seeing the issue.

Any help appreciated, first american car in quite a while, and looking like the last one too.

 

any thoughts?

VMax2007 Senior Enthusiast

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Truck in question is an 07 yukon xl. Intermittently, the back up lights will stay on. Engine can be running, in park, drive etc. More often, it happens when parking/locking the truck. Lock with the key fob, back up lights stay on. Has run the battery dead twice, now my wife checks that they go out before she walks away. When they do stay on, you can often get them to shut off by repeatedly unlocking and re-locking the truck with the key fob. Occasionally, if that doesn't work, starting the truck and shutting off gets them off. Once, nothing would work, so i disconnected the battery for a min or so, and then when i reconnected, they were off.

 

Truck is under warranty, unfortunately, dealer 'can not duplicate' problem, and is unwilling to do anything without seeing the issue.

Any help appreciated, first american car in quite a while, and looking like the last one too.

 

any thoughts?

 

 

 

I'd dump the POS. I hear the Toyota SUVs are perfect and flawless!!! :D

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Truck in question is an 07 yukon xl. Intermittently, the back up lights will stay on. Engine can be running, in park, drive etc. More often, it happens when parking/locking the truck. Lock with the key fob, back up lights stay on. Has run the battery dead twice, now my wife checks that they go out before she walks away. When they do stay on, you can often get them to shut off by repeatedly unlocking and re-locking the truck with the key fob. Occasionally, if that doesn't work, starting the truck and shutting off gets them off. Once, nothing would work, so i disconnected the battery for a min or so, and then when i reconnected, they were off.

Sounds like there's a bad connection in the switch. Get the schematics and look them over. If that loses ya, then just start at the switch and check everything out.

 

 

 

Truck is under warranty, unfortunately, dealer 'can not duplicate' problem, and is unwilling to do anything without seeing the issue.

Any help appreciated, first american car in quite a while, and looking like the last one too.

Then it's clear the dealer has no interest and perhaps you should instead find someone else. Dealers aren't gods of any sort, and if you don't like the way they do their work, find someone else.

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I'd dump the POS. I hear the Toyota SUVs are perfect and flawless!!! :cheers:

 

the yukon xl replaced a land cruiser that was darn near perfect, and trouble free(for 170k miles), but we wanted the extra space behind the third row that the toyota didn't have.

 

But yeah, otherwise you're right on the money, a car that leaves my wife stranded is worthless imho.

 

 

And yes, this dealer obviously doesn't care much about customer service. Unfortunately, the other gmc dealership in the area closed down.

VMax2007 Senior Enthusiast

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I'd dump the POS. I hear the Toyota SUVs are perfect and flawless!!! :cheers:

 

the yukon xl replaced a land cruiser that was darn near perfect, and trouble free(for 170k miles), but we wanted the extra space behind the third row that the toyota didn't have.

 

But yeah, otherwise you're right on the money, a car that leaves my wife stranded is worthless imho.

 

 

And yes, this dealer obviously doesn't care much about customer service. Unfortunately, the other gmc dealership in the area closed down.

 

 

 

So, the back-up lights left her stranded? :cheers::fume:

DofD Senior Enthusiast

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Grab a video camera and take a video when it happens to show the dealer when it happens next. Also try to notice if there is any sequence of actions that are similar when the problem occurs.

 

It sounds like there is an issue with the BCM and the timer for controlling the lights when locking and unlocking the doors via the fob.

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Annnnnnnnd???? Any news on this? Which backyard witch doctor had the right potion?

ColoradoSkiCountry Senior Enthusiast

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I'd dump the POS. I hear the Toyota SUVs are perfect and flawless!!! :lol:

 

the yukon xl replaced a land cruiser that was darn near perfect, and trouble free(for 170k miles), but we wanted the extra space behind the third row that the toyota didn't have.

 

But yeah, otherwise you're right on the money, a car that leaves my wife stranded is worthless imho.

 

 

And yes, this dealer obviously doesn't care much about customer service. Unfortunately, the other gmc dealership in the area closed down.

 

 

That's funny, just today I saw a newer model Sienna driving down the road, it's back-up lights stuck on as well, looked pretty retarded :lol::lol::lol: but then again most of Toyota's vehicles (not all, just most) look retarded.

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Do you have an aftermarket nav system or mod wired into it installed?

 

I only ask because I had a similar complaint that turned out to be from that. Normaly leaves comm codes a tech can see though.

 

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Also, easyest thing to do is swap the relay(underhood fuse block) for a known good one, pretty easy and you can do it yourself... See if it was sticking. I have had that happen before too, sometimes on newer vehicles but mostly on older ones. If its not that your looking more toward it being a BCM problem.

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