SamiAlnemri
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- 2014, Explorer Limited
Hi, I did take my car to a Ford dealership for state inspection and asked them to troubleshoot the charging system fault (it cost me $140), I just wanted professional diagnostics. I kept the car overnight and asked them to test it first thing in the morning and they did and confirmed it was the alternator and said that the fault code comes from a diode inside the alternator. I am not 100% sure this is correct but this is Ford diagnostics.Did you ever figure out the issue. My 2014 is going the same thing except it takes about 2 minutes before the voltage from the alternator kicks in on a cold start. My battery is new and belt is new. I am being told if the alternator was bad it wouldn't be only on a cold start.
I still did not change the alternator yet, I noticed last 2 weeks when the weather temp went up and we had a few warm days the fault did not come, however when the temp went down the fault came back again.