F350 6.0 problem with intrument panel
 

Today al my gauges stoped working along with climate controll, the nice beeping noise when you forget youre keys in ignition, windshield wipers and i cant locked my car with the remote button. Or the button on the door that lockes the car. Everything else workes fine. Need some serius help. I live in sweden so the support on the real american ford aint good. I hope to have some luck here.

I have checked al the fuses. Every one is okay

What year is your F350 6.0L ???

It is a 2006

Can this problem that i have. Have any realations with the key ignition lock?

That could very well be your problem. Your ignition switch (key) operates a cam that, when turned on will move forward to push the cam that then pushes a switch mounted on your steering column. This switch will turn on all your electronic devices.

Al of these problems have acured after my batteris went low on voltage. How can that be?

It could be that your truck needs to be reset - disconnect the battery for 10 minutes and let everything reset. Reconnect it and see if your problem is solved. You should also make sure you battery is fully charged before attempting repairs.

Is your check engine light on? Do you have access to a scantool to read DTC codes?

I am recharging the batteris, and hopefully the will be fully recharged on tuesday.

I cant se any engeine light. When i turn the ignition to position 2. The only lights that works is the battery lamp and airbag. None of the other lights is on.
I am going to try and se if can find a repair shop today that have a scan tool.

The car starts but i runs in some kind of emergency program. It has no power and i dont think it will change gear when in Drive..

Well newly charged batteries dident do the job. I am leaving it to a workshop on friday he has a scantool from bosch. Dont know if it will work.
well we all know what happend the last time when germany and the us came in conflict. :)

Hopefulle this time they will get along better.

Let us know what the garage learns from the scan tool.
Because the battery went low and the issue came after that... I think maybe a voltage regulator went bad.

Be sure to come back and update us.

Well we hooked it up to a scantool. And we got alot of codes. 3 on engiene 5 on main electrikal, airbag, trailer coupling, transmission, 4x4, these are some of them. There were about 15 codes. I can give a complete list on friday.

One strange thing that happend was that we drained both batteris in 20 min when ignition was in on during the scan. I have tested both batteries and they checked out ok. And that was 2 days ago.

Now you need a good mechanic to read those codes. Most of those codes are consequential. Which means.. When say your battery died. It created a code which in turn created 5 other related codes.
You can have a bad MAP sensor which will cause your fuel supply to turn rich that will create other codes related to your Catalytic convertor to your O2 sensor.
So many of those codes you can ignore. The challenge is to find the code that started this chain reaction of codes.
BTW your batteries should NOT have died during the code reading.
Sounds like you have one bad battery dragging the other one down too.

I have no new news about my ford. But i will post when i have
Somthing new

The mecanik have tryed to change a white conction box that is located under the steering wheel. Its function is to put the power on to diffrent things when you turn the ignition key.
This dident help, now he wants to change the cluster. A new cluster in sweden kost about 2000$
I have tryed to call some electrical repair shops to se if they can check if the cluster is ok. But they have no experiance or scematics of ford cluster. I have checked ebay for cluster but i can only find uesed ones. Any tip of how i can get my hands on a new cluster in the US?

Well in my opinion.... I think your mechanic is putting the cart before the horse, I mean it seem he might be working backwards.

If your gauges are NOT working... Pick a gauge to work on. ie: oil pressure.
Find the sending unit and test it to see if the sending unit is working.
Test the oil pressure wire at the back of the gauge cluster to insure the cluster is receiving the signal. If you have power at the back of the cluster but still nothing on the gauge, then yes you need a new gauge.

Do this to all the sending units to confirm it's the cluster

I giving the mekanic to the end of the week. If he cant find the problem i will find a new workshop and mekanic. I have a strange feeling about this mekanic it feels like car electritan isent his best skill.

Well i am happy to say that my ford is working fine. I found the problem when i went to the workshop. I was very unhappy with the mekanic so was taking back my car. And saw a big elektric conection whit a lot of wiers, that was loose. It was under the cluster, to the right of the steering colum. How it could be loose i dont know it has a locking mecanism.

Glad to hear you found the solution. Isn't that always the way? It usually turns out to be something so simple, but the hardest thing to find

Thanks for al the help.