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Bazzy
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 8:06 pm 
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Hi, I have a ford NA fairlane. It has automatic climate control. The outside temperature sensor has started reporting garbage data. It is showing outside temp as 10*c regardless of the temperature. I have contacted a number of suppliers including ford and no one has compatible sensors nor can anyone including auto electricians and apparently people who rebuild these items tell me anything about the ohm value of the sensor so I can construct one myself.

I am getting to the point where I am thinking of booking the car In to ford and making them fix it.

Does anyone know where to get this sensor or a compatible sensor or even the information on how to build one.

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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 8:40 pm 
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get one off a wreckers car. My EA is playing up and that's all I'm gunna do

 

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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 8:59 pm 
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where is the ouside sensor? :roll:
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Bazzy
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 11:57 pm 
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Mad2 wrote:
where is the ouside sensor? :roll:


on the fairlane it is mounted directly to the front of the hood latch on the under side. it should be a small cylinder shaped device.

 

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89.SVO wrote:
get one off a wreckers car. My EA is playing up and that's all I'm gunna do

I will check the wreckers out however if i find one i will still run some tests on and see what range it works in so i can reproduce it i think.

 

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