It'd be nifty to find out all the issues were caused by a bad coil but I don't think thats the case. I'd suspect theres some kind of central computer module that probably isn't bad but has a bad connection into the main harness.
-Curt --- On Thu, 8/7/08, R A Bennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: R A Bennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [MBZ] OT Ford Horn Q To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 4:46 PM Well I hope mine is not that bad. If so, will be my own fault I guess. I had sworn off of Fords after my wife owning a 97 Sable for 5 years. It had all sorts of little electrical glitches that drove my wife crazy. I tried to find a good Chevy when I bought the 98 F150 3 years ago but couldn't find anything at a price I liked then. Ended up with what I thought was a good deal on the 98. Drove it for a year without problems and let my younger son have it and bought the 02 Supercrew 2 years ago. Love the truck but now it is causing some issues. Apart from the horn on Sunday, it has started missing again. We took it south to Grand Forks North Dakota yesterday - a round trip of about 280 miles. The A/C stopped blowing cold air, the cruise control wouldn't turn on and it started to shake at idle when we stopped at the border. On a plus side, it did not let us down and leave us at the side of the road. The service engine soon light came on in the dash and my OBDII code reader says I have a bad coil on #2 so I am off to the dealer to get one of those in a few minutes and will hopefully solve the miss and then look for the other problems which are probably related. Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:51 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Ford Horn Q Did I ever mention that my uncle had a truck much like yours, I think it was an '01 and had MASSIVE electrical faults with it? His liked to cut out periodically, it'd sit dead for 1-20 minutes and then randomly would drive fine for 1-180 days. It got so bad that the Ford dealer finally gave him a nice deal on a newer truck. I think his newer one is an '05 or '06 and he's had almost no issues with it. I suspect if you traced around enough you'll find that the horn button in the wheel goes to some kind of computer controls and thence to the horn. I'd also suspect that the computer has gone somewhat wonky... -Curt Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:53:48 -0500 From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MBZ] OT Ford Horn Q To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Yesterday morning I was working in the garage on my wife's car when a horn started blowing. I went looking to see what was up and learned that it was my truck. No idea why it was blowing but it would not stop. I pulled the battery cable and let it sit. I need now to find out what is up. My first thought is that a wire has rubbed against something and shorted to ground. Going to check down under the bumper where the horns are if I recall to start with. Don't think it should hurt if I just pull the wires from the horns and drive it if I can't immediately solve the problem. Anyone with good ideas on what or where to look if it is not immediately apparent what is wrong? Its a 2002 Ford F150 Supercrew 4X4 with a 5.4 so nothing too fancy or elaborate. Randy _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
