Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
When it rains out here some of the county roads turn into mud bogs for a day or two the electrical connectors for the computer controlled transmissions are barely water tight when new but once the rats or mice dine on the soybean and peanut based insulation on the wires or leave their urine on the connectors the next time you have to drive through the mud your truck will go into limp mode if it doesn't fail completely.
Ugh. Don't even get me started on that. I just went through that transmission thing with my girlfriend's car. Gear selector sensor which measures the rotation of a shaft that goes into the side of the transmission case. Thing would crap out when it got wet, then the car would go into limp home mode. It would only drive around in "Sport" mode for a few weeks, then the sensor would die completely. Went through that least three times. Siliconed the crap out of it the last time and it's lasted about a year now, but still...

Now my car won't start because the immobilizer got wet and locked out the ignition and starter. You can't bypass it because it controls EVERYTHING in the car (seriously, you can't even close the doors if the immobilizer is disconnected) and it has a pair of data wires to the ECU that can't be jumpered. That car has, get this, infrared motion sensors built into the ceiling from the factory to detect if there's movement in the car when the car is locked. Gonna be a nightmare.