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Do a search for it as there was a really good thread not too long ago.. In fact I just got my sheets of codes and will be trying them out over Christmas break.. Or you can look up under the dash,very difficult though.. Or you can go to your dealer and they can download it for you,for an arm and a leg if they're not a nice dealer..Mine said to bring it in and they'll do it for nothing when I get my next oil change and run my recalls too...I take it to my local Lincoln dealer who has a couple of good diesel techs instead of the Ford dealer who wanted $100 to do the code download.
If you have a 200 Explorer, it's in the back, left side under the place where your jack is sitting. Look for some huge numbers about five of them. That's the factory code. Now, do you know how to set the system to your own code? That's what I'm looking for.
1- By sight, I found the module directly behind my AM/FM/CD6 player at the firewall. Mine is black plastic, as opposed to some being light gray or white.
2- I could not read the code from any imaginable angle because of wires, cables, crossbars, etc...... Even my daughter who is 1/4 my age and half my size couldn't see the code from any angle whatsoever.
3- I went to the passenger's side under the "trash bag hanger?" and stuck my hand up to the module. There was plenty of room to reach up to it, but not enough room to read the code. I felt the sticker on the module from top to bottom, side to side. I prepared my attack.
4- I started on one corner with a fingernail and peeled the sticker off very slowly so as to not damage or destroy it.
5- To save the next owner the same troubles, I stuck the sticker on the inside of the last page in Owner's Manual.
Once I located the exact location of the module, the entire procedure took less than 20 to 30 seconds. <!-- / message -->
One trick I've found works for looking at stuff like this is to use a digital camera. You might not be able to get your head to where you can read it but a lot of times you can stick your arm and camera in there and take a picture of it.