Warning light Yellow with vehicle and line through it.

[Nathan Read]

Can anyone help with this.

I'm currently working in Germany and the good lady back home has manged to do something to the explorer in 8 months that I couldn't do in 5 years.

She has one of the warning lights come up on the car and it now won't start its never missed a beat before.

Cranks fine and I'm waiting for a mate to go round and test the spark.

But the warning light is unknown to me and I can't find a answer in the hand book I have downloaded off the net as i think it the american version which has no reference.

Thanks for the help people.

 

[Howard]

That light is the self levelling suspension warning light. It might just be switched off. The switch is in the rear left hand compartment (where the jack is).

Having the light on will not effect wether it starts or not.

 

[janolsson]

Hi Nathan
the warning light could be the ARC suspension light. Comes on if you turn the ARC system off using the switch in the cargo area compartment N/s or if the compressor cycles a lot and the sensor reads that the level is still not right.
An orange O with a line thro it is the overdrive off light which will also flash if there is a problem with the tranny.
If not starting i would first try unpluging the crank position sensor (lower front of engine to the left of balancer pulley) and reconnecting a couple of time to clean the contacts. If still no worky then check for fuel pressure at the schreider valve on the fuel rail.
HTH

 

[janolsson]

Dang howard beat me to it

 

[janolsson]

Nathan this may help
http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=264205

 

[Nathan Read]

Thanks for the help guys, god I wish I was back home myself to do it.
She's going to check the switch in the morning and my mate will take the sensor off sometime tomorrow too. Fingers crossed.
If anyone has a pic of the sensor or where it is that would be great but if not I'm sure I can find a diagram somewhere.

My mates pretty good with cars but I find explorers have a way all of their own.
Think it may be time to start looking at bringing one over from Japan......

 

[janolsson]

Not the best pic but here you go

The sensor itself doesn't need to come off. Just unplug and reconnect a couple of time then try to start.

 

[Booke]

This happened to me on Friday. I ended up having to have the Ex recovered.

Anyway, got some excellent advice about the crankshaft position sensor and after a squirt of WD-40, she fired into life.

Fingers crossed it will be the same for you too

 

[jcasey007]

strange, mine also failed to start on Friday, about 15:30 (maybe a solar flair?)

Crank sensor Pull did the trick. Third time in 18 months it has happened.