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Topic: Rough idle, loss of power, check engine light........
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MystiqueSVT
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posted April 10, 2002 09:05 PM
Hello, I have a 1995 Mercury Mystique V6 with a manual tranny. I've owned the car since 1999. I absolutely love this car. I think this is probably one of the best cars a US automaker has produced in a long time. I have never had any problems with the car up to this point (143,000 miles) other than a water pump going at 120K. I've got new spark plugs, wires, O2 sensors, new cats, new battery and it's in great shape.
Well, my car has been idling rough, and I've had a huge loss in power and the Check Engine light is on. When I accelerate, I can feel the car kind of lag. I couldn't figure out what the problem was until I looked under the hood. I was looking around to see if something was loose, maybe wires somewhere or a sensor. I come to find that my fuel injection wires and a bunch of other wires have no insulation on most of them. I reached my finger down in between the intake manifold to move the wires around, to try and get a better look. When I tried to restart my car.....nada. The cooling fan turns on and the car will not start! The cooling fan should not have been on as the car was cool and I just moved the car under a tree and out of the sun so I could get some shade. Could the wiring really have degraded this much, and my fingers really damaged the wire bad enough to prevent it from starting? Is this common on my car? Any help would be greatly appreciated. My car still sits parked outside my house. I don't want to take it in just in case I did something simple.
Thanks
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Mike Mclaughlin
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posted April 11, 2002 09:49 AM
With the complexity of wiring in today's vehicle's, I feel at this point and time in your best interest is to contact your local repair facility for further diagnosis. Thanks
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MystiqueSVT
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posted April 12, 2002 09:06 PM
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Originally posted by Mike Mclaughlin:
With the complexity of wiring in today's vehicle's, I feel at this point and time in your best interest is to contact your local repair facility for further diagnosis. Thanks
I am my local repair facility, I was contacting this site because I thought with your member's vast amount of knowledge in the area of auto repair, someone could help me. I am in the Ford Consumer Support section and I hardly believe that your response meets any definition of support.
I don't intend on being mean or sarcastic, but it I am merely dissatisfied with your answer. I need help and I do not intend on taking my car back to a Ford Dealership where I was charged $234 for the mechanic to stick a vacuum hose back on the rear of my engine. Yes, this happened to me once. Ever since then I have never taken my car back to any dealership and I have committed myself to learn about the functioning, mechanics and repair of my vehicle.
To this date I have diagnosed and fixed all problems without the aid of Ford Techs...and it looks like I will continue to do so.
Thank You for reinforcing my past decision.
By the way, with a little research online I have determined that there was a recall for which I never received a letter or notified by any dealer that I've ever visited, 99M03.
This recall was for "brittling" of underhood wire harnesses in 95-97 Contour and Mystiques. Go to NHTSA and do a search on these harnesses. You will see there have been nearly 100 complaints on just one section......and roughtly 80% resulted in fires. I'm lucky my car just refused to start........instead of start on FIRE!
Note: I am not aiming my dissatification of my underhood wiring at any of you on this board, unless you were the one responsible for choosing this poor quality insulation. I will however aim my criticism toward all of you for ignoring me.
Thank you for ignoring me as it allowed me to do a search and find the truth.
May I also suggest in the future that you not belittle your potential customers, especially by posting your insults online where an electronic record can be saved.
That topic, which I found not on your site...because it was deleted by your Moderators........but by using a search engine and finding it elsewhere on the net...
Posted by Kevin O'Neil (Member # 30) on April 06, 2002, 10:02 AM:
You are probably right, if it were a GM the wire may not be falling apart, but I have worked in independent shops & GM's break just as often as Ford's, so live with it & quit your crying & fix it. Think about this. You put 125k miles on a car & from the sound of it, your only complaint is something finally broke, which you yourself admitted to having the opportunity to have fixed under a recall & did not. This is your fault, not Ford's. Ford gave you the opportunity & you passed on it. Ford has it's problems, but so does every other manufacturer on the road.
I have never said this to a customer in my life & I will probably catch hell from a few people for it, but here goes:
Brian Leeper, you suck!
Thank you all for allowing me to add to my knowledge and further justifying my belief that Ford Techs and Service Managers are not following the mantra "Ford, where Quality is Job 1."
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