Every time we opened the cabin door the step is suppose to come out when the switch is pushed up and retract when the door is closed. It is suppose to stay down when the switch is pushed up even when the door is closed. Frank had done some work on the step changing out some parts. It had been damaged last year when our son borrowed it for a long weekend (it failed to retract when the ignition was turned on). After Frank got it straightened out, more or less, it seemed to work just fine but then it is 15 years old and sits out in the weather.
We would open the door, the step wouldn't come out. I'd jump up and down a few times, Frank would jump out and give it a couple kicks, then it would come out. Some times we would just wait several minutes and it would come out. We decided it was being this way if we didn't retract it before turning on the ignition. Then one time after my jumping and his kicking didn't solve the problem, I gave the sensor a light tap with my foot and out came the step! The next few times it failed to deploy when the door was opened, one of us would tap the sensor, and the step would come out....must be the sensor, afterall!
