jwstewar
Active member
Yesterday morning at 3:55 we had a the brightest lightning I had ever seen and the loudest thunder I had every heard. Then all of sudden alarms started going off. It must have been close. It messed up the CO2 detector, set the sump pump alarm off, and and sent the house alarm to battery. So then cell phones start ringing because the alarm company wants to know what is going on and to make sure we are OK. It also blew 10 bulbs of 18 in our ourdoor low voltage lights that we just put out last Friday/Saturday and the 2 Garage Door Openers in the garage attached to the house. At that time that is all I knew.
When I left for work at 6:00, In the office I found the UPS, computer, and phones were all dead. Monica later called me and told me the 52" Samsung wouldn't work and a few other misc. things were bad including the DSL modem & router.
I think we have everything back and working now except for a few minor things and the TV and computer. I tried a new power supply in the computer because I could tell the other one had been smoked. That didn't work.
Now the bad part. She called me later and set the Suburban turn signals wouldn't work. Apparently the surge jumped from the GDO down to the Suburban right below it. It also said the hood was open and the back hatch wouldn't work. We have found a bunch more things not working on it. I took it in for diagnostics this afternoon. The know the Body Control Module and the Liftgate Module are bad for sure. Out of 28 computers on the Suburban, 14 of them are reporting an issue. Worst part is some of it is intermittent, so they are thinking we have some shorts in the wiring. They are think at this point at least 2 weeks labor to strip the interior and go through all of the wires and computer. They are betting the insurance company will totally as they won't want to keep throwing money at it. It is an '08 with 10k miles. So far they are guessing we are looking at a minimum of $10k damage. And then we may always have problems with it - including probably losing the factory warranty because they will always come back and say this caused it. Don't really want it totaled because we can buy another one for what we paid for this one, but don't want a headache either. Prior to this, the Suburban hadn't been back to the dealer for anything.
When I left for work at 6:00, In the office I found the UPS, computer, and phones were all dead. Monica later called me and told me the 52" Samsung wouldn't work and a few other misc. things were bad including the DSL modem & router.
I think we have everything back and working now except for a few minor things and the TV and computer. I tried a new power supply in the computer because I could tell the other one had been smoked. That didn't work.
Now the bad part. She called me later and set the Suburban turn signals wouldn't work. Apparently the surge jumped from the GDO down to the Suburban right below it. It also said the hood was open and the back hatch wouldn't work. We have found a bunch more things not working on it. I took it in for diagnostics this afternoon. The know the Body Control Module and the Liftgate Module are bad for sure. Out of 28 computers on the Suburban, 14 of them are reporting an issue. Worst part is some of it is intermittent, so they are thinking we have some shorts in the wiring. They are think at this point at least 2 weeks labor to strip the interior and go through all of the wires and computer. They are betting the insurance company will totally as they won't want to keep throwing money at it. It is an '08 with 10k miles. So far they are guessing we are looking at a minimum of $10k damage. And then we may always have problems with it - including probably losing the factory warranty because they will always come back and say this caused it. Don't really want it totaled because we can buy another one for what we paid for this one, but don't want a headache either. Prior to this, the Suburban hadn't been back to the dealer for anything.