Thread: AU falcon troubles

The coil pack was never going to give these symptoms unfortunately.Providing that the vehicle has fuel,the problem s more than likely the crank angle sensor,the main power relay or the ECU .

Originally Posted by LowRanger

The coil pack was never going to give these symptoms unfortunately.Providing that the vehicle has fuel,the problem s more than likely the crank angle sensor,the main power relay or the ECU .

I changed the coil pack because according to the manual, the resistance readings I got on 2 cylenders were way off the mark. I personally didn't think it was either, but atleast now it has a new 1.

Cheers Ean

Welcome to the crap Ford electronics club. You will have more and more troubles. The thing will drive you to the rum bottle by stopping instantaneously and having to be towed to a repairer to replace yet another stuffed electronic component. This is why my Falcon ute got christened the "Two-in-one Falcon", the first and the last.

Best solution is to get rid of it.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Welcome to the crap Ford electronics club. You will have more and more troubles. The thing will drive you to the rum bottle by stopping instantaneously and having to be towed to a repairer to replace yet another stuffed electronic component. This is why my Falcon ute got christened the "Two-in-one Falcon", the first and the last.

Best solution is to get rid of it.

Up to 100,000ks the car was great, but Ford must put a computer thingy in the system for things to start to fail straight after.

This car made my D2 look like a Rolls Royce when it comes to troubles.

Obviously people who complain about L/R haven't owned a AU falcon

Truthfully falcons are no worse than commodores,and neither are that hard to fix.

work has an AU that gets abused and doesn't give us problems

i used a own an AU2 and never had a trouble with it.....it was an ex hire car as well

Originally Posted by LowRanger

Truthfully falcons are no worse than commodores,and neither are that hard to fix.

I think its the same for all makes/models. I would have thought the C.A.S would just stop the car dead. It looks a straight forward change out so will see if I can pick 1 up today and try that, otherwise it can go to the garage and see if they can sort it.

Thanks and Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

I think its the same for all makes/models. I would have thought the C.A.S would just stop the car dead. It looks a straight forward change out so will see if I can pick 1 up today and try that, otherwise it can go to the garage and see if they can sort it.

Thanks and Cheers Ean

Depends on the fault with the Crank sensor.It is quite common for them to cause cutting out,backfiring etc and then to start and run normal.Usually thermal related problems.From memory,the resistance on the Crank sensor is 300-400 ohms,you can easily check it when the vehicle is playing up,you don't want an open or short circuit.
Fuel pump relays and power relays are a real bug bear with Fords.Next time it plays up,give the relays a tap with a screw driver handle or similar,one at a time and see if the problem mysteriously corrects itself

And seriously,you only have to look at how many of them are around the country as Taxis,with well over 500,000km,they aren't an unreliable vehicle,but like ALL vehicles,have their known faults