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2004 Ford Taurus SES sudden loss of power
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kathil17
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Oct 3, 2012, 5:23 AM
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2004 Ford Taurus SES sudden loss of power
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My Ford Taurus recently (July 2012) received a new torque converter. We replaced everything at that time that had not had changing. This included all filters, fluids, plugs, etc. It has been great ever since. Until yesterday. I was going to work, turned a corner and lost power. I had to pull it down to first gear and coast pretty much to a local store. When I stopped it was putting out grey smoke from the tailpipe and smelled pretty bad. My son said to get it to work, which is basically 2 blocks from where I was. When I re-started the car it felt as if the motor was going to jump out of the hood. He then said to park it. He assumed it was the one sensor, and when he took it out he showed me that the sensor was fine but the plug in wires were chewed. We replaced that, however the issue remains. I am just getting your input as to what you think it may be. He got the car to his work ( a local Ford Dealership) and will be putting it on the computer today. If he does not come up with anything, this is where I am asking for your suggestions. It does have over 180,000 miles on it, and has run beautifully (except for the torque issue). Thanks for any input you may have
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kathil17
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Oct 3, 2012, 5:48 AM
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It means that the wires on the plug in to the sensor looked as if they had been chewed. Meaning, that the plastic was off of the bare wires. Whether they were chewed or not, the wires were bare, for some reason, across each one.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Oct 3, 2012, 5:51 AM
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You have a FORD at a FORD dealership that your son works at. Why oh why are you on the web at all over this?
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kathil17
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Oct 3, 2012, 5:59 AM
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Ok. so nevermind. Didn't think I would get a put down comment. I just figured that if anyone had had experience with this then he could cut to the chase and pinpoint the issue easier and quicker. I will just wait for him. Sorry to have taken up any time from you guys. It was just a question in general. It's not like he can bring my car in and work on it on the company's time. 
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Hammer Time
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Oct 3, 2012, 7:08 AM
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We have lots of experience with varmints chewing up wiring harnesses. They do a ton of damage and it can get quite expensive to repair but we can't tell you anything about the extent of your damage.
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We offer help in answering questions, clarifying things or giving advice but we are not a substitute for an on-site inspection by a professional.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Oct 3, 2012, 1:35 PM
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kathil17 : I apologize and didn't mean any form of putting you down. Things of this sort really need to be seen and hope nothing else is unseen. If a critter chewed thru something there could be more. If a wiring plug just managed to be too close to a moving or hot part that would be something else.
Now ages ago for critter problems a few things were found to help.
* Change position or direction of where car is parked oddly helped.
* Mothballs were hit or miss?
* Yikes - clothes drier sheets seem to repel - who knows why?
* Ick - plain old rat poison not always practical or good for the situation.
* Those sonic things can work but one report was the person's pet parrot went nuts!
** Not much of anything is 100% perfect.
That's just prevention. The damage already you just hope you can see, repair and hope nothing else happened because of it,
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