mune237
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- April 19, 2012
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- City, State
- Bonney Lake, WA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1999 Exploder
My son's 99 Explorer died on his way to work yesterday.
He got it towed back to the house, then got a ride to work.
Afterwork I grabbed my OBDII reader and headed over there.
His mother works for Motorcraft, so she grabbed a new alternator and battery.
But when we get there, the explorer starts right up and runs fine.
But dies after 15 minutes. Really dead!
It acts like someone pulled the battery out. No electricity at all!
I wasn't able to get a CEL reading w/o power to the ign switch.
I know electrical problems can be anything with these 13 yr old cars, but does this sound like a typical Explorer problem?
I have NO history with these FORD Explorers.
My Volvo had a bad -B- battery cable, that was typical as the cars reached 10 yrs old. I never would've found it, if it wasn't for the SwedeSpeed forum. The cable looked absolutely fine from the outside.
TIA
~Mune
He got it towed back to the house, then got a ride to work.
Afterwork I grabbed my OBDII reader and headed over there.
His mother works for Motorcraft, so she grabbed a new alternator and battery.
But when we get there, the explorer starts right up and runs fine.
But dies after 15 minutes. Really dead!
It acts like someone pulled the battery out. No electricity at all!
I wasn't able to get a CEL reading w/o power to the ign switch.
I know electrical problems can be anything with these 13 yr old cars, but does this sound like a typical Explorer problem?
I have NO history with these FORD Explorers.
My Volvo had a bad -B- battery cable, that was typical as the cars reached 10 yrs old. I never would've found it, if it wasn't for the SwedeSpeed forum. The cable looked absolutely fine from the outside.
TIA
~Mune