KonnecTour
Be Gentle I'm New Here
I have a 1997 Ford Contour, V6, East coast, auto w/ air. After over heating and the temp gauge not working and error codes, I replaced the water pump, thermostat, temp gauge sendor, engine temp sendor. The cars seems to run fine, except the temp gauge, once warmed up, stays on the L (in the N-O-R-M-A-L) gauge. I would probably think this would be a blown head gasket or even a cracked head (because of the over-heating) except the thermostat doesn't open until the gauge is on the A and the fans don't come on until the L. So since the stat and fans are working but just at a higher area on the gauge that they should, maybe it is the gauge or even a bad sendor I put in or maybe I wrapped the sendor in too much teflon tape and it is not making a good connection. I've seen a TSB on the gov't's web site about the temp guage reading too high, but I can't get any details about it (TSB #98166, NHTSA ID #609735).
Is this reading too high (the dealer says they all run hot - which I don't believe)?
Does anyone else have this problem?
What are the solutions?
What are the details about this TSB?
Thanks
Ford knew about this problem day one on the assembly line and let ever contour built on the road just go down the assembly line. GM and Ford are still doing this. Letting cars go down the assembly line with problems. Every and I do mean Every Contour is doing this. Thank God Honda and Toyota is here in America to give Americans other choices. Let's hope that the new contour (Ford Fusion) doesn't have the same problem.