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- From: scholten@esseye.si.com (David Scholten)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Ford Taurus Computer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.190302.8197@esseye.si.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 19:03:02 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Smiths Industries
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- I have an `87 Ford Taurus 3.0L engine. What I would like to
- know is how to read out the error codes from the computer.
-
- I had a very disturbing experience with a dealerships service
- dept. last week. I was told that the PT sensor was bad on
- my car. It cost $50 to hook up to the computer for the
- diagnostic. $125 dollars to replace the sensor and to clean
- the plates. Not knowing what a PT sensor was, all I could do
- is accept their diagnosis.
-
- Well, when picking up the car and getting the bad part, I realized that
- a PT sensor was nothing than a potentiometer. I took the part home
- and have sinced ohmed it out to discover that nothing was wrong with
- the original part. I really feel like I got took! The real irony
- to the story is that the car runs worse than it did before. When I
- took it back, they claimed that it didn't exhibit any of the symptoms
- I was complaining about.... so nothing touched.
-
- Any help would be appreciated.
- Dave Scholten
-