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- From: tpickett@auspex.com (Tom Pickett)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: SHO Problems
- Message-ID: <16550@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:55:30 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.180419.22407@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Reply-To: tpickett@auspex.com (Tom Pickett)
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc. Engineering
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- In article <1993Jan20.180419.22407@engage.pko.dec.com>,
- sontakke@helix.enet.dec.com (Vikas Sontakke) writes:
- > Forget the court. You must (should) have read about Philip Greenspan (??)
- > of MIT and his battle with Ford on the net. If I were in your shoes
- > (actually, at one time, I was), I would take on the $50 offer and get the
- damn
- > thing fixed.
-
-
- Believe me, Greenspan's problems are foremost in my mind. I took them up
- on the offer, and three days later (I picked it up last night), I have
- a good A/C (I think, it's really too cold to find out right at the moment),
- a functioning wiper circuit, and Ford's assurance that all of my smog
- devices are working. Unfortuanately, I also have a non-functioning
- tachometer.
-
- I can categorically state that in the two years I have owned this car,
- I have never once left the Ford dealer parking lot without some sort
- of new or remaining malfunction. They have a perfect record.
-
- > Back to <my problems>. The owners manual states fuse #1 for brake light
- >and ECU
- >and so I used to disconnect fuse #1 to reboot the computer. Since, that has
- >not
- >made any difference lately, I went to circuit diagram and the service manual
- >to
- >see if the fuse #1 actually supplies power to ECU. Fuse #1 is connected to
- >brake switch and is one of the input to the ECU. However, it does not look
- >like
- >a power lead but rather a sensor input for the cruise control signals. My
- >conclusion after going through the manual is that computer is hotwired via
- >fusible link.
-
- >That means taking the fuse #1 off never rebooted the computer, so if I felt
- >any change in the past, it must have been placebo effect. I hate that!!
-
- >It would be trivial to see if the car runs with fuse #1 off. God alone knows
- >why I am afraid to try that.
-
- Have you tried disconecting the battery? Since the car has to "re-learn" the
- idle if the battery is disconected, perhaps it will cause a "re-set."
-
-
- Tom Pickett
- tpickett@auspex.com or 74616.2237@compuserve.com
- SHO GOZE
-