Blinker flasher clicks, no lights........

I have a 2000 Chevy tahou Z-71 w/ a 5.7 engine. Everytime its cold outside and the car is cold inside, the blinker flasher clicks like the blinker is on. No lights are blinking outside or inside. If I step on the brake pedal the clicking will stop, release the brake pedal, it will start clicking again. It will keep doing this until the car warms up inside. Any ideas?

 

I have heard this before on customer's vehicles and found the aftermarket remote start system causing it. Does your truck have a remote starter?

 

Yes I do have a remote starter, and I think it is an after market. Is there anyway to correct this problem?

 

I would take it to whomever installed it. Either that, or install a different brand.

 

Before this began to happen, my wife moved the power seat all the way forward and got out of the car. She didn't know that the power seat button was stuck down in the forward position. The next time I came out to start the truck, the battery was dead and it had a big crack in it around the neg post, I could pull the post right off. Put in a new battery, couldn't start truck with remote, had to reset it. After I reset it, the truck started with the remote, but my head lights wouldn't blink after I started the truck or when I turned it off with the remote like it use to do. The headlights haven't blinked again ever since this happened. Thats when I began to heard the blinker relay clicking in cold weather. I replaced the relay, but it still does the same thing. Could it be something in the blinker switch on the sreering wheel, or should I lean more towards the remote starter system seeing my headlights don't blink anymore.

 

It's in the remote starter. All the ones I have worked on, I removed the remote starts and the issue was gone.