Recent content by George Anderson

Thanks. Yeah the old wooden coaster on the Boardwalk is a great one. Leaves me with a similar queasy feeling in my stomach as I get when I drop off one of my Fomocos at NBFLM :>) BTW, the dealer whose service dept treats me with respect and knows what they're doing is Sunnyvale...

Hello all. First a big thanks for all the help and advice I've gotten here in the last year and a half or so that I owned our 2003 red xlt 4x4 sport trac. I did sell it last week :>( but something had to go. I've been unemployed for almost a year and the $$$s were dwindling. I got a...

Thanks to George C and Rampo and everyone who helped with this. I just talked to the dealer and put a stop to their destruction of my autolamps. He was still reluctant to believe me that they'rfe factory. He says there's no part number for a delay mirror for 2003. And he says the mirror...

Rampo- Thanks again! Got your email with the sport trac manual in it. WHAT SERVICE. There it is on page 47 - just as described above. Man, this is great. George

Rampo- Thanks SO much for that. I gotta get that to the dealer. Gawd, what is WRONG with these people? I even asked him over the phone "SO IF I LOOK IN THE OWNER'S MANUAL THERE WONT BE ANYTHING ABOUT AN AUTOLAMP FEATURE???" That's right he says. CAPS indicate my tone of voice with him...

TNT- No, I can certainly do without DRLs myself. I never really questioned the dealer about it, but here's what I always figured: I know the previous owvers were an 'older' couple and I know they used the Sport Trac at least part of the time as a dinghy behind a big RV. At least that's what I...

"The OEM DRL module is situated on the inside passenger side of the engine compartment above the front bumper. Was this the location of the one you looked at? " - Olaf Haha. No - it is behind the lower dash panel just left of the steering wheel. I didn't actually SEE it, that's where...

"03 was the first year they offered this option " - Olaf AHA, that's why I dont see it in the service DVD - it goes to 2002. (I got it for my 2001 LS) So, here I sit letting a technician and an SA and a Dealership Service Manager work on my Trac and it seems I (and certainly all of...

This is unbelieveable! Mine is an 03 XLT. It has the compass and temp and garage door opener holder overhead. It has a full-length console with the rear heat and I think audio controls below. It has cruise and tilt and power driver seat and ... (I can't check anything cause it's at the...

Here's one looking for work in California! Can I work from home like they do in Bangalore?

That's what I thought. Can anyone else confirm this? My dealer is telling me that auto lamps were not installed in Sport Tracs until 2006. He says mine only has autolamps because the previous owner installed an aftermarket DRL package which included auto lamps. Seems strange to me...

Hi all. Question: my '03 XLT Trac, which I bought used, has autolamps with a delay slider on the electrochromic mirror. Is this an uncommon feature? Was it a factory option? Thanks

Thanks, Olaf, that seems similar to mine, though I have tried rocking the tilt wheel back and forth between it's stops with seemingly no effect on the tail lights.

Yeah, thanks, I don't see anything listed. Anyone else have intermittent tail light problem fixed?

Hi all; I took my trac to the dealer this AM to look at my intermittent tail light problem. SOmetimes they come on, sometimes they don't. I had heard there was an issue with the tilt wheel crimping wires and that there was a kit to fix it. Natch, the dealer knows nothing of any such...