Hi all

On my st170, was poking around under the bonnet the other day and I noticed there is some sort of sensor cable tied to the battery box. Its a gold colour, has a thread on one end and a wire attached to the other.

I'll post a pic of it when I get home, but am just a little curious as to what it is


Cheers all!

Rich

 

water temp sensor?

 

This is a Water Temp sensor

This is a fan Switch


I hope its none of them two.

 

Charger adapter?

 

it looks very much like that 2nd pic! The fan does cut in and out ok tho....

 

flux capacitor?

 

My missus 2.0 Ghia has got exactly the same thing your on about. I dunno if they ever use it for diagnostics or summat, but i think most 1.8 & 2.0 petrols have them?

It does look like a spare sensor of some sort plugged into a spare bit of loom!

 

haha

 

yeah, mines got it aswell

 

ah right, pretty common then. Any ideas what it actually is? Under bonnet temp sensor?

 

spare connector? sure its not the diag port, IIRC these are near the battery?

well, was on ythe old EECIV / EECV stuff, dunno about the newer OBD stuff

 

nah not the diagnostics port, thats under the steering wheel. Its only a 2 pin plug, looks identical to that 2nd pic above. I'll go get a pic shortly

 

just spoke to the electrition he said he has seen alot of them and your not the first person to ask about them but he aint to sure iver lol

 

I've had them on both of my ST170s and every single one i've worked on has it.

Doesn't flag an OBD error under scanning whether it's unplugged or not...

Bizarre...

 

is it not likelly to be a connector for some optional extra you dont have?

 

it is a underbonnet temp switch, apparently ford had probs with engine fires so i think this cuts fuel if it gets too hot!

 

oh right cool! Typical ford excellent build quality

I'll get a pic in a bit for those interested!