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Ford Windstar 2000 LX 3.8 v6 vin4 12v ohv 232 cid 240000 miles
Engine light started flashing while accelerating massive power loss code p0305 changed plugs and wires worse than before no power light flashing and a kinda misfire sound when hitting gas have to let off accelerator noticed overflow reservoir fluid is brownish looks burnt noticed intake manifold leak changing gaskets and seen black thick gritty sludge in bottom of manifold loosing oil by the quart every two weeks and noticed imcr module missing lever arms should I give up???? Is this a lost cause it's costing me a fortune and never had the recall on rear axle checkd ford really messed up with this pos
Delilahz from United States 7 years ago  
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Delilahz from United States 7 years ago
Still broke down looking for the imrc linkage rods not cheap and can't find em for my van manifold was completely clogged with carbon buildup don't know if it will ever run just paid the insurance to and got it legal plus 600 to get intake cleaned up and a letter for the recall on the axle 16 recalls never been serviced once its a lost cause I feel only hads it a year
Delilahz from United States 7 years ago
Burn it its a death trap almost 2000 dollars in 3 months on it before I seen the Vin report ugh sucks to b me
Harmano from Canada 4 years ago
Flashers constantly flashing
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Transmission

Ford Windstar 2003 3.8 automatic  174300 miles
When driving the overdrive quits working about 30mph turn off o/d accelerate above 40 mph turn o/d back on works fine doesn't do this all the time.
Johnny from United States 8 years ago  
JO
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Jace from United States 8 years ago
Its called the sell or trade light. Unless you want to replace the transmission
Donn from United States 7 months ago
Have you tried changing the filter and trans. Fluid?Could be all it is.
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Instrument panel

Ford Windstar 2003  170000 miles
My vehicle's instrument panel has been failing: you simply open the switch and the needles start moving from side to side, even sometimes colliding into one another. What I do is to hit the dashboard a bit and they either mend or stop. I was thinking that may be it was simply a poor contact or a short circuit, what do you think about it? Thanks.
tanny from United States 8 years ago  
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Madge from United States 8 years ago
With a magnifying glass I was able to identify some welding points in the instrument panel that were damaged (5). I've welded them again and the problem was solved.
NAT from United States 8 years ago
It can either be that the ECU or computer of you car is failing or that some sensor's short circuit.
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Dashboard needles failure

Ford Windstar 2001  160000 miles
My car's dashboard needles move desperately.
Gail from United States 8 years ago  
GA
1 report 
torrie from United States 8 years ago
You need to remove the dashboard and check the connectors. You should check the pins' welding, and you will probably need to weld them again. This was how I solved the problem with my car.
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Dashboard needles

Ford Windstar 2003  110000 miles
My car's dashboard needles sometimes seem to drive crazy, how can I fix it?
MONTE from United States 8 years ago  
MO
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Madge from United States 8 years ago
With a magnifying glass I was able to identify some welding points in the instrument panel that were damaged (5). I've welded them again and the problem was solved.
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Abs brake system

Ford Windstar 2002  105268 miles
Orange ABS light & RED brake light come on intermittently for no reason...
seikiman from Canada 7 years ago  
SE
5 reports 

Red light on dash

Ford Windstar 2003 windstar 203500 miles
A red circular light came on in the middle of my dash, do not no what this is representing
Norma from Canada 7 years ago  
NO
7 reports 

1/2 lit lights on dashboard

Ford Windstar 1998 ford windstar gl 210000 miles
Not liking this...my rpm and speedometer gauges are half lit. I noticed this last night. You really can't see under the 2 mark on the rpm side and on the speedometer side it lit up to 50mph them decided to light up at 80mph...no further on worker of them...wtf can it be...? Hopefully an easy fix...
Averation from United States 8 years ago  
AV
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