Struck by lightning this morning en route to a pickup.

Left the lightning capital only to be hit in eastern WA! Dang it boy, you’re hard on stuff! Hope they get things sorted for you. Hang in there!

 

I doubt that truck will ever be right, again. The techs are chasing and endless stream of issues and are going to keep throwing parts at a dead end. I don’t know how many modules are in trucks, these days. But, they and the CANBUS network won’t handle any surge of voltage like that. It’s why it’s always recommended to have a whole house surge protection system in place, to protect all the sensitive electronics in all one’s household items. Trucks don’t have such a system. I’m guessing, that truck is done.

 

Couple dozers got hit at a mine. They burnt to the ground. Heard it on a safety bulletin a few years ago.

 

I had 2 in my last year in the shop. 1 Volvo and 1 Cascadia. The Cascadia was about 27000$ in parts, the Volvo totaled.

 

the truck will have baby carbon arcs in every part and subsystem... may take a week a month or more before each one goes bad... think 1 power plug goes bad, next week dome light. Head light, break light... just a never-ending list of things...

Remember if it went in thru the pigtail it had to go thru the fuss box to get to the ABS module so every light, plug, wire is suspect

 

Worked on a western star that got hit by lighting. CB antenna looked like a banana peel. Everything from ECMs to sensors to light bulbs were messed up on that poor thing.