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CJ - 26 Apr 2006 15:02 GMT

I posted a few days ago about my ford taurus having no 2-3 upshift. The idle
was acting very weird. I found out that the transmission on my car is the
AXOD-E. The left battery terminal on the car was corroded so I cleaned it
and I started checking the distributor wires and found 1 loose. This is the
third time that I found it loose. I disconnected the battery cable to reset
the computer.

After the computer reset, reconnected the battery cable, and double checked
all the wires, I took it on a test drive. The shifting is back to normal,
the idle is normal.

Could the computer have sent the transmission into "limp" mode to get my
attention about the idle?

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sleepdog@optonline.net - 26 Apr 2006 16:44 GMT

>> Could the computer have sent the transmission into "limp" mode to get my
>> attention about the idle?

My guess is the loose distributor wire could have sent the computer
into limp. Was your engine light blinking as well? Maybe an extended
misfire detection would do that? Makes sense.

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Jeff - 27 Apr 2006 02:11 GMT

>I posted a few days ago about my ford taurus having no 2-3 upshift. The
>idle was acting very weird. I found out that the transmission on my car is
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> Could the computer have sent the transmission into "limp" mode to get my
> attention about the idle?

The computer could have sent the transimission into "limp" mode. But it was
because it didn't know how to control the tranmission, not to get your
attention.

Anyway, it seems to be working. Leave it alone and see what happens.

jeff

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