2005 Mountaineer-Need HELP!!!!!!!!
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2005 Mountaineer-Need HELP!!!!!!!!
Need Assistance. Bought repo. Drove one month. Died. In generic garage 4 months-yeah I know but he worked for ford 13 years. Anyway he gave up but in the meantime he installed a used ecm and installed the wrong vin. He finally gave up-no charge-for anything. Original ecm put back in. Took to ford-kept 3 days said needed new cat convertors-2800-said no way. New cat now installed along with new intake which was cracked causing plugs to foul and car not to start. Failsafe engine mode continues t come back after new ecm installed. Mechanic well versed in work but the abs system still has the wrong vin from first mechanic and cannot be changed by exixting mechanic causing the failsafe mode and other warning lights (advac trac, brake, wrench, etc.) Vehicle drives and runs but obviously cannot drive long without causing further damage. Can take back to Ford but what do I tell them to keep from charging me and arm and leg to do unecessary work?? Need to have vehicle fixed!!! Can anybody direct me to the right path to take?????????? 4.6 eng. AWD.
Brucifer3 or reply to gcrail@msn.com---PLEASE
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Forums don't work too well when the discussion happens via e-mail, so I'll respond here.
There's a lot of information in that original post, so I'm going to attempt to rehash what I think the sequence of events is.
-Mountaineer sat for a long time at an independent shop where a different ECM was installed and reprogrammed incorrectly. Did not fix the original issue of No Start. Original ECM reinstalled but ABS module not reprogrammed back to VIN.
-Dealership diagnosed issue as bad catalytic converters.
-Converters were replaced along with a cracked intake manifold (which probably caused the converters to fail originally). Engine still does not run correctly and warning indicators present for ABS system.
Is that the correct status?
Has anyone checked for diagnostic codes currently to see what's causing the failsafe? I don't think a difference in VIN between the ECM and the ABS module would cause the engine to run in failsafe mode. I think it would just shutoff the ABS and associated systems. You might have bad coils, bad gas (if it's the same fuel that sat several months), etc.
Can you take the vehicle back to the former Ford tech and have him reprogram the ABS just to make sure that's not the issue?
-Rod
There's a lot of information in that original post, so I'm going to attempt to rehash what I think the sequence of events is.
-Mountaineer sat for a long time at an independent shop where a different ECM was installed and reprogrammed incorrectly. Did not fix the original issue of No Start. Original ECM reinstalled but ABS module not reprogrammed back to VIN.
-Dealership diagnosed issue as bad catalytic converters.
-Converters were replaced along with a cracked intake manifold (which probably caused the converters to fail originally). Engine still does not run correctly and warning indicators present for ABS system.
Is that the correct status?
Has anyone checked for diagnostic codes currently to see what's causing the failsafe? I don't think a difference in VIN between the ECM and the ABS module would cause the engine to run in failsafe mode. I think it would just shutoff the ABS and associated systems. You might have bad coils, bad gas (if it's the same fuel that sat several months), etc.
Can you take the vehicle back to the former Ford tech and have him reprogram the ABS just to make sure that's not the issue?
-Rod
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