Gary Waugh
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Hi Everyone, I have a 2008 Ford expedition EL that I have owned from new. It has a ford remote start that has always worked fine. I recently changed the interior dome light bulbs for LED bulbs (I like the whiter light) and everything seems to work fine, the bulbs come on when the door is opened and go off as expected, I cam start the engine with the key and everything behaves correctly (no error messages, etc). However whenever I try to start the car using the remote start, it locks all the doors and then instead of starting the engine it gives 3 beeps and all the interior dome lights come on. According to the ford manual, 3 beeps mean a door is open!! I have confirmed several times that all the doors are closed, so I am suspecting that changing the dome light bulbs to LED's is somehow messing up the door open sensing system? has anyone experienced this before? I don't want to go back and replace all the bulbs with regular bulbs so I am hoping someone can give some suggestions? I love the LED interior lights. I might need to add some bleed resistors in parallel with the LED bulbs to dump more current, but thought I would ask here first before trying anything?
Thanks Gary
Thanks Gary