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    Temperature Gauge Acting Crazy! Need Opinion

    Tonight I noticed that my temperature gauge is acting up. It gets very warm, then suddenly cools back down to its normal temperature. Then the cycle repeats. I checked to see if perhaps I had a blown head gasket, but there is no antifreeze in the oil, no oil in the antifreeze, no white smoke and...
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    HVAC problem help ASAP!

    I need help ASAP!!! I am living for school tomorrow and i need to fix my car tomorrow with my dad. Here is the deal, tonight i got into my car and turned on the heat cause it is getting cold in WI. The fan starting making a really loud annoying humming noise, it sounds like a mix between a prop...
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    Loud Clunk when putting into Reverse from Drive

    Ok, I need some help. My dad and I are going to work on my truck tomorrow night cause I will be coming home from school for the weekend. I have a 99 Limited SOHC. I have the 5r55e transmisson. About two weeks ago I took my truck in cause it was clunking when I would shift from drive to reverse...
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    1999 xlt 4x4 help!

    I am sure that you already bought the car and I dont want to ruin your fun with a new car, but my 99 Explorer Limited is the biggest head ache i have ever had in my life... in just the past 3 weeks my car has like disenegrated. I had to put a new transmission in, then a new 4x4 system, new rear...
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    Smoke from steering column?

    This has happened to me 5 times now, and every time they replaced the turn signal stalk. I have ESP from Ford and one time they sent out a Ford Engineer to look at the problem. The fixed it again but the engineer says that it is really not dangerous. It hasnt done it for almost 4 months now, but...
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    Help Driver Seat Broke seriously

    Hey sounds like a common prob in all 92 Ford cars, I had a 92 crown vic, the seat broke cause i got tapped from behind while i was stopped nothing else happened just the seat broke. I just took off the cover and had it welded back together. I assume that it is still going strong, but i dont got...
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    Help!! Wife's 99 SOHC XLTw/75k miles Keeps Stalling

    I dont know if this will help but my 99 SOHC did the same exact thing as yours does. Got everything replaced MAF, IAC, TPS, O2 sensors and such. Still stalled. Until one day I was backing my car out of its parking spot, put the car in reverse and it slammed into gear, and stalled out. Tried...
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    FIRE IN THE STEERING COLUMN!

    UPDATE - Still smokin' Yeah they said they fixed it but it did it again last night. I am just going to let it keep shorting out and burning up wires. Then when it breaks I will be like well you told me you fixed it. Whatever. Anyone want a Ex with more then $7,000 worth of warranty work done on...
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    FIRE IN THE STEERING COLUMN!

    Well the Ford Dealership called me today, they said that they took the truck apart and nothing is wrong with it, said everything is with in spec, however, the smoke came out of the steering column and you could smell burning plastic.whatever. They did say however that my heated seat had shorted...
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    FIRE IN THE STEERING COLUMN!

    Help! Today I went outside and started my Ex and smoke came streaming out of the steering column. When I put my foot on the brake the blinkers turned on, but didnt blink they just stayed lit solid. I quick turned off my car cause I didnt want to do more damage then had already occured. I called...
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    Ford Extended Warranties

    I would have to say that I LOVE MY FORD PREMUIM CARE WARRANTY! I dont know what is wrong with my car, but it seems that it is always always broken. They just had to tow it away today cause it broke for the second time in less then a week. I have never ever had a problem with them not covering my...
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    Help! Stalling, Stumbling, Erratic Idle!

    Well an update on my car, shes dead as a doornail. The tow truck is loading her up right now. Got in it this morning to start it up and it started making a nasty grinding, shuddering, basically not good noise and then the truck lunged foward about four times when i put it into gear, the motor...
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    Help! Stalling, Stumbling, Erratic Idle!

    Thanks for the tips! I have mentioned to the mechanics before that it could be the torque convertor but they just blew me off, like I was stupid. As for the IAC they have replaced that twice. The first time they put one in and it was defective so i they had a to put another one in. So that is...
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    Help! Stalling, Stumbling, Erratic Idle!

    Ok Here is the deal. I have a '99 Explorer with a 4.0 SOHC with 80,000. This thing is the car from hell. Every other week something new is broken. If you can think of it has been replaced. -Entire top half of motor replaced-78,523 -The valve body of the tranny replaced-74,655 -Every sensor...
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    v8...how long will the tranny last?

    I had a 95 CV with the 4R70W Tranny in it with 275K on it and it ran like a charm it was on its second engine but the Tranny was tough as ever. It did have a slight shutter problem but Ford makes this friction modifier that you dump in the tranny the shutter goes away. I would highly Recommend...
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    Surging and Pulsation while idling HELP!

    I have a '99 Limited with the SOHC V6 with 72K on it when my car idles it has a horrible surge and pulsing vibration. Some times the car almost stalls out. Nobody can figure out what is going on. I have been to 3 Different Ford Dealers and one Lincoln-Mercury one and they all say that they don’t...
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