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hi every1 the WA members will know wat i mean when i say it rained today... puddles and heavy rain most of the day.
the bf was parked at the vines golf course most of the day in the rain. had a beautiful run up there.. however getting back from the vines was a whole different story... the car wouldnt start... eventually got it going... go into D... and it seemed to be struggling... the D indicator on the speedo was flashing put into sequential could not get it out of 3rd.. limped home at about 70kmh down the roe highway and then pull into the garage... turn it off.. wonder if it will start... turn the key starts fine. quick trip up the road didnt miss a beat.. could something in the electrics got flooded ? im really concerned to know whats going on. will be ringing the dealer tomorrow morning thanx |
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| Disco Frank |
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could be some water got into some electronics somwhere
very strange though
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well it was the most rain ive seen in ages... later was in northbridge with my brother and the ef the 2 bits above the stop light where the water areoung the boot comes out was pissing out water like a jet lol.. when both falcons ended up home i dryed the spots in the engine bay around the boot and under the fuel filler
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Yeah id be taking that straight to ford.
The trans controller is in the gearbox from my knowledge on the ZF's. Very strange problem but one id be getting Ford to fix, it obviously went into limp home mode
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| xpression |
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yeh exactly. It should have logged a fault code to tell you why it went in to limp home mode.
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| gli |
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i thought it went into limp mode... its running fine at the moment. it made it out the welshpool today without a problem. so if i take it into any ford dealer they will be able to pick up on wat happened?
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{USERNAME} wrote: i thought it went into limp mode... its running fine at the moment. it made it out the welshpool today without a problem. so if i take it into any ford dealer they will be able to pick up on wat happened?
theres a small likelyhood they can find what the error was. theres a significantly larger one that it will cost lots of coin and you'll be with out a car for a day or two
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Dealer bashing aside, the ECU stores the error codes (known as DTCs) and can keep the last 20 or so in memory, so as long as you don't have 20 more problems, it'll be readable.
Alternative find someone local with a OBD2 scanner and Workshop manual, they'll be able to tell what the code is.
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ur bf should still be under new car warranty yeah?if it is the ford dealer wont charge to put it on the IDS
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| gli |
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thanx guys. can i take it to any ford or does it have to be the 1 i bought it from.. rather take it to range ford cos atleast mabe xpression (if he doesnt work on them) atleast pick the person who does.
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| Disco Frank |
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xpression is a salesman!!!!
should be able to take it to any ford dealer dude
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ok an update... it sat most of the day in welshpool and then tried to start it.. it was doing its crap again.. got it started. locked in 3rd.... right this is crap. come to think of it it quite regularly it doesnt like starting.. so had a battery change.. car sat in the lot the rest of the day. hop in turn the key fires up and got all the way home with all 6 gears auto and sequential mode.. will test tomorrow. if it dies tomorrow it will be off to park ford i can imagine
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| fiftyone |
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dying batteries can do strange things to cars too. go figure
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im praying its the battery.
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yeah when i used to drive magna at work it would just stall after starting it but not everytime. in the end it was the battery, it would crank fine to , which was weird but changed the battery and stopped stalling, dunno go figure
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