P0600, P061A, P164C, orange wrench and no 4X4??

[puckdodger]

Hi folks posted this on Ranger5G: I would appreciate a little help and feedback on an issue I had yesterday on a 200 mile round trip.

I had driven about 50 miles using 4x4 most of the way through a snowstorm. stopped to fuel up at a Mobil station, the first time I have used that brand of fuel.

When I started the truck it said No Pre Collision available, then the wrench lit up and said to service 4X4. No codes at this point. I thought it might be snow build up on the front parking sensors. I left it in 2WD to deal with it later. A mile or 2 up the road and the truck starts shuddering, jerking and not shifting properly but would idle and rev up in park okay. Drove a little farther and then pulled over to connect my BDX to log some data for Torrie. After a couple false starts on using the datalogger, cycling the power on and off the above codes were thrown. Cycled the power off to remove the tuner from the OBD port and the wrench was gone when I started it up again. Truck ran great in 4X4 or 2WD the rest of the way, and the wrench remained off. CEL was still on.

Thoughts?

 

[puckdodger]

seems like a reboot of the truck resolved the issue on its own. thanks for the all the replies.

 

[wildbill23c]

seems like a reboot of the truck resolved the issue on its own. thanks for the all the replies.

Seems pretty excessive when you have to reboot your vehicle LOL. You know the electronics have gotten out of hand at that point....wait till the hard drive in your truck crashes and you lose all your data HAHA!!!

Hopefully that issue is taken care of permanently for you, would be interesting to know though what causes the problem in the first place.

The P164C seems a bit of a concern as it states Faulty Power Train Control Module possibly. Although hopefully the "reboot" fixed it but the better question is why did it happen in the first place...maybe a loose connection somewhere or the snow/slush, and grime caused it, who knows.