20 Most Recent 2005 Ford Taurus - Page 5 Questions & Answers

The throttle cable needs to be cleaned or replaced. Happened to me a couplw of years ago. Pretty scarry when it happens.

Go to "aboutautomobile.com" and they have a tool to translate the Code you enter.

The first thing to check is the tail lights. The cruise control will not work if any lights are out. Changing to LED tail lights also causes the cruise to not work.

wiper motor shot ?

for the daytime running light relay location, check the engine compartment fuse/relay panel.

Loose connection on back of radio!

The shaft on the actuator should hot turn by hand but the shaft of the blend door inside the housing should

why? what is the job, "diagnosis, put back one missing:"/? what? Connie, only one book shows that ,its called the FSM the factory service manual, and is online at ford (sold) and shown on alldata.com log in and read it. please post the job< we can;t help much with out that and can not post all 50 pages in the HVAC chapter here. diagnosis takes these facts: there are 3 kinds. on all car,s some mix up all 3kinds. cable (cave man simple) you pull handle, and cable moves and door opens (DAMPER BLEND OR WHATEVER) VACUUM SYStems, you move the knob, vacuum is gated tot he hose the hose goes to the damper servo and it moves and again the door opens. last is damper motors. these are vary hard to test, because no 2 are the same. each year uses different motors and the tests are unique., on my car, the only what to test them is with a factory scan tool. on my other car, the FSM shows how to hot wire the motors to test them, so back to square one,, the FSm. alldata.com google it, its #1 , $15 helm $10 http://www.helminc.com/helm/product2.asp?Make=FRD&Model=TAUR&Year=2005&Category=37&class_2=FRD&mk=Ford&yr=2005&md=Taurus&dt=Online+Service+Information+%28OSI%29&module=&from=result&Style=helm&Sku=FCS2005TSWEBD&itemtype=N there is never a reason to guess, the books are all online just login and read.

Is your car a manual or automatic? Check your idle. Fuel mixture, or fuel pump.

You'll find this routing on a sticker under the hood near the top radiator core support and in your owners manual.

The Idle Air Control (IAC) valve will be a solenoid mounted on the side of the throttle body. The throttle body is the butterfly valve that your throttle cable goes to. Air goes through the throttle body from your air filter.

Blend door motor likely, located behind center of the dash.

it should be under hood..but not a regular fuse..should be a bigger squire fuse..50amp or so

add coolant to the system and make the engine runn dont put the radiator cap to let the air get out off the system and keep adding coolant as need

Check the knob that controls panel light brightness. Turned all the way up, it also turns the interior lights on.

Watch the You Tube Video on that compressor model

there are 3 different motors try auto zone libary

Maybe the cap was just not put on all the way Then the Evap Monitor ran & did not find any faults That monitor is the last to run & only does so every few days Your timing was just when you needed it to run

There are three bolts that hold it on. PLus the wiring. The triangle above the door panel pops loose, behind the mirror bracket. Be careful, it has a tab that goes down behind the door panel. Pop it loose, you can pull it down far enough to access the 10mm nuts.