Dead 12 Volt: Water in Electrical Connectors
Just heard from the service manager that Ford engineers told him to check 4 electrical connectors for water intrusion.The connectors are in the front end of the car. My car has three of the four specified connectors (4th is for fog lamps, which I do not have). All the connectors had water in them, which would cause a short. The service dept put my car through a high pressure car wash last week after they performed the TSBs for battery issues. That might have shot water into the connectors, cau
I looked up the connectors in the workshop manual. A few observations: 1) The three connectors appear to be located very close to each other in the left front of the car. It would be nice to examine exactly how water could reach these connectors. 2) C144 is a 12 wire connector. Pins 9-12 carry switched positive and ground from the Body Control Module to the fog lamps (not standard on the SE). The headlamp switch provides the signal to the BCM to operate the fog lamp relay. 1-8 are for the
