se9303
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- August 20, 2017
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- City, State
- Arlington, Texas
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2006 Ford Explorer
Hello to all,
My wife's 2006 Ford Explorer 4.0 ran into a no start/no crank situation 2 weeks ago and we had it taken to a mechanic shop for diagnosis/repair. They determined the instrument cluster had gone bad (CAN communication was cut off and thus no crank/start) but then when they replaced the cluster and programmed it, the truck would not start. They verified the PCM and noticed there was water residue (I had washed the engine back in November 2017 and recall spraying water all over the area where the PCM is, so this probably gradually killed it) on the PCM. They replaced the PCM and the truck started up fine as they indicated. Well, I went to pick it up today, and surely it starts properly, but the powertrain malfunction indicator was on. We told the tech that this light was not present before this and all they could say was, "oh, you need to change the oil and/or some maintenance was needed. I explained to him that an oil change has nothing to do with that and as happens with lots of these places, they do not take corrective action. We called the owner and all he said was, "Well your truck did not start and now its working. If you want leave it here and we will tell you how much it will cost to fix this issue". OMG I was so angry, but decided to stay calm and just paid them and left with the truck. Very unprofessional individual. Since living in Texas, I have always been able to take care of any of the issues that the truck has encountered but this one gave me no other alternative than to sadly have to take it to a repair shop.
First off, I scanned the vehicle with OBD Fusion to check for any codes, but says its all clean. Wish I had a Ford IDS system to work with this vehicle . Then I removed the negative cable for a few minutes to see if a reset was the issue, but I just comes back on. When you start the truck, the icon is off but about 2 seconds later it comes back on.
What can be going on here? Can anyone shed some light into this? Any good DIY Ford members in the Arlington, Texas area?
Both keys start the vehicle and the remote control works fine.
Regards,
Mark
My wife's 2006 Ford Explorer 4.0 ran into a no start/no crank situation 2 weeks ago and we had it taken to a mechanic shop for diagnosis/repair. They determined the instrument cluster had gone bad (CAN communication was cut off and thus no crank/start) but then when they replaced the cluster and programmed it, the truck would not start. They verified the PCM and noticed there was water residue (I had washed the engine back in November 2017 and recall spraying water all over the area where the PCM is, so this probably gradually killed it) on the PCM. They replaced the PCM and the truck started up fine as they indicated. Well, I went to pick it up today, and surely it starts properly, but the powertrain malfunction indicator was on. We told the tech that this light was not present before this and all they could say was, "oh, you need to change the oil and/or some maintenance was needed. I explained to him that an oil change has nothing to do with that and as happens with lots of these places, they do not take corrective action. We called the owner and all he said was, "Well your truck did not start and now its working. If you want leave it here and we will tell you how much it will cost to fix this issue". OMG I was so angry, but decided to stay calm and just paid them and left with the truck. Very unprofessional individual. Since living in Texas, I have always been able to take care of any of the issues that the truck has encountered but this one gave me no other alternative than to sadly have to take it to a repair shop.
First off, I scanned the vehicle with OBD Fusion to check for any codes, but says its all clean. Wish I had a Ford IDS system to work with this vehicle . Then I removed the negative cable for a few minutes to see if a reset was the issue, but I just comes back on. When you start the truck, the icon is off but about 2 seconds later it comes back on.
What can be going on here? Can anyone shed some light into this? Any good DIY Ford members in the Arlington, Texas area?
Both keys start the vehicle and the remote control works fine.
Regards,
Mark