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I have a 95 Ford Fairmont Ghia that I put a reconditioned transmission in almost 12 months ago. The problem was it would drop down a gear when it shouldn't, drop into neutral when cruising ((and I have to change down the gears like a manual gearbox until it will go back into a gear), slam into gear when it is cold etc. So the advice I received was to replace the transmission. After picking it up and taking it for a drive it did the same thing. The gearbox guy said it was an electrical problem that was interfering with the computer and telling the gearbox to drop out of gear etc. Since then I have spent so much money on it trying to find out what is the problem. Everyone seems to agree that it is electrical but no one can find the problem. Even ford with their diagnostic computers can't tell me what is wrong. There are other little weird things happen, like the airbag light stays on, the lights on the sounds system won't come on all the time. Has anyone had anything like this problem and were you able to fix it.
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Ford Girl,
sounds like a few major electrical gremlins going on. Was the car playing up when Ford tested it or does the car only do this intermitently? If the car was doing it when you had it at Ford I would say someone there doesn't know how to use th
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Thanks for your reply. When I took the car to the ford dealer he drove and drove it but he said it wouldn't do it. They used the diagnostic machine in the workshop as well as something they attached and then drove the car. He said there were
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Ahh the old "only plays up when a mechanic aint around" syndrome. I think we have all had a car with these types of tendencies in our lives. I'm no sparky by a long shot. Just ask my wife, she trembles in fear when I go to repair something. No sense o
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Dont know if this question has been answered yet, I was surfing and just stumbled across it. My ef used to do the same sort of thing, drop into neutral or second gear while cruising at 100 clicks and then go back into drive etc. It ended up being the sele
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Hey Ford Girl,My ol man has a 95 ef with auto and exactly the same problems happened with his car.He is now on the 3rd transmission which is on its way out,Its been to ford dealers,mechanics,electricians and the computer shows no faults even though when d
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