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Re: I believe something may be [marsha7] by nvbanker
Jan 16, 2005 (9:25 pm)
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Replying to: marsha7 (Jan 15, 2005 7:07 pm)

All of the Fords I've had with Air suspension have to re-pump each time you start the car, because they settle down when you turn them off and close up the car. That is normal. I wouldn't worry, it sounds like yours is working normally. On your other problem though, I don't know. sorry.
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Just a gripe I have by ragdollgirl
Jan 17, 2005 (10:52 am)
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Replying to: nvbanker (Jan 16, 2005 9:25 pm)

Several months ago I lost one of the center wheel caps on my 94 GM. I stood it as long as I could, but then I had to find one. The dealer wanted $86.63. I had previously checked used car parts dealers, but they insisted on selling me the whole wheel just to get the cap. I bought a perfectly respectable used cap on eBay for $32.99. It has just enough small scratches so it matches the other three. Perfect! Dealer -- you can keep yours! What a rip-off. All that money for a part that's mostly plastic. They should be embarrassed.
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smokeyjoe by marsha7
Jan 19, 2005 (7:43 pm)
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I was under the impression that most cars have ALWAYS had a front stabilizer bar, even "poor handling luxury boats" like Crown Vic, Grand Marq, Town Car, etc...what I have always wanted, and more cars now offer, is a standard rear stabilizer bar which would only affect (improve) body roll in turns, but has, I believe, no effect whatsoever on straight roads since the bars have no torsion on them in straight roads...
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Blowing Fuses on 2000 GM by dmers
Jan 20, 2005 (3:16 pm)
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I need some help for our 2000 GM LS w/Digital dash and auto heat/AC. The car has only 92K miles on it. It keeps blowing the fuse for the digital dash, power door locks, done light, etc.
 We just spent $190 getting the Auto heat/AC fan working about 1 month ago. This same fuse problem occured when we bought it 4 year ago and they tracked it down to the built in garage door opener in the visor.
Any ideas or is this common?
Thanks for any help.
dmers
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Re: Blowing Fuses on 2000 GM [dmers] by nvbanker
Jan 20, 2005 (3:38 pm)
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Replying to: dmers (Jan 20, 2005 3:16 pm)

It is not common at all, but clearly, you have something that's touching ground somewhere in the circuit or overloading. It's a tough one to find. Someone is going to have to trace every wire down to find out where the insulation has worn through or the staple is that's making the fault to ground for you.
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Re: Blowing Fuses on 2000 GM [nvbanker] by esfoad
Jan 21, 2005 (5:17 am)
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Replying to: nvbanker (Jan 20, 2005 3:38 pm)

I just had the same thing. I finally tracked it down to the wire that powers the vanity mirror in the driver's sunvisor. Every time I moved the visor, the wire was chafing on the roof of the car and eventually rubbed away the insulation. Then it was bare wire touching the roof. I hope this helps to solve your problem.
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Re: Just a gripe I have [ragdollgirl] by a_l_hubcaps
Jan 22, 2005 (1:05 am)
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Replying to: ragdollgirl (Jan 17, 2005 10:52 am)

You should remove those caps yourself anytime you take the car in for service, so you can be sure they are put back on properly. It is very easy for inattentive mechanics to break the clips and then the caps start flying off. I am in the hubcap business and I sell these caps all the time, they are one of the worst designs out there.
 
-Andrew L
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Thanks, Andrew L. by ragdollgirl
Jan 24, 2005 (8:51 am)
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I will definitely be removing all my wheel caps myself before I take the car in again. When we took another one off to see the part number, some serviceperson had broken a clip off of it. Don't know what shape the other two are in yet. I'll probably be losing another one before long. The car's got almost 200K miles on it but I still want it to look good. Can't go around with naked wheels! Thanks for the tip. I didn't know they were so fragile.
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Blowing Fuses on 2000 GM/ found the problem! by dmers
Jan 28, 2005 (12:05 pm)
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Thanks to all for any help on the issue of blowing fuses on my 2000 GM w/92K on it.
 
 There was a short in the visor to the remote control garage opener. The mechanic disconnected the wire and now all is working well on our electronic dash, door locks, heater fan, etc. at an unbelievable $68.00
   
The cost to replace the part: a new visor: $454.00 __you guessed it, we are using the old garage openers, again. The first time this happened, it was on Ford, back in 2000. I did not trust a third Ford Visor for electronics reliability.
 
I think I am going analog when possible on all my future cars.
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Gauges by jsylvester
Jan 28, 2005 (2:10 pm)
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My digital gauges on my 94 Grand Marquis work flawlessly. They are not known for being anymore troublesome than the analog gauges - the problem on your car seemed to be with the design of the built-in garage door opener.
 
I'm holding out for a Grand Marquis LS Ultimate somewhere around 2008, depending on whether Ford decides to stop building them or not. The 500 is a decent car on paper, but it is no Panther.

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