Need some help with the wife's car

[broke again]

how was the ac working if the car never started?

[71chevellejohn]

is it fully insured? do you smell anything burning?

[Forever_frost]

how was the ac working if the car never started?

The AC stopped working while I was driving it from the VA to home. It didn't refuse to crank until I got home and went to move it a few hours later.

[snacksnack]

Thinking about this, it might all be something as small as a bad ground connection. Just because of the progression of electrical issues and the on/off problems of other things, all just out of nowhere.

Thats what the link is about that I posted above.

[mstng86]

What is the update on this?

[Captain Crawfish]

Fix or repair daily haha sell it get a chebby

[Gasser64]

All the chevy guys be hatin on ford and never even owned one lol

[Forever_frost]

I won't hear anything for 2 weeks. They said it'd probably be 2 weeks but could be sooner so they wanted it in there just in case they got an opening. Paris Ford tends to treat me fairly well.

[Tremor14]

All the chevy guys be hatin on ford and never even owned one lol

what? i'd say everyone here has owned at least 2 of the big 3.. remember, a lot of us are not still in our 20s. We have been around a minute, pup.

[95DRGT]

Thinking about this, it might all be something as small as a bad ground connection. Just because of the progression of electrical issues and the on/off problems of other things, all just out of nowhere.

+1 on this. I chased a similar issue with PATS in my Lightning for weeks and it was loose ground to the firewall.

[Forever_frost]

I heard back from Ford today. In addition to the PATS in the steering column, there were a series of shorts and the PCM wasn't communicating. They're going to try to file it under warranty but it's looking like I should get out for under a grand in a worst case scenario and it should be done by Tuesday latest.

[Forever_frost]

Okay the car is home and I thought I'd bring a close to this:

Things replaced:

PCM,
TCM,
PATS in the steering column
Random shorts
Door latches

How the hell could all of that fail at once?

[orphan Shelby]

There's a tsb or recall for checking bolts on ground cables in engine compartment. Wouldn't be surprised if that was all it was. Seems like a bunch of stuff to fail all together

[lowthreeohz]

yeah, if you lost a main ground the power is going to try and find another via any available avenue.

[Forever_frost]

I checked the bolt issue under the hood and they were tight. I even took them off and sanded them and put them back in.

Still, Ford charged me $180 total to get it out the door. They had it a month but overall I'm pretty pleased.