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My wife and I were traveling down I95 from NC to the FL Keys on vacation in my 05 Dodge Magnum RT which has dual climate control. My wife kept adjusting the AC temp up and down, up and down, until after a while the AC just turned off and wouldn't come back on. After stopping the car at a Walmart where I bought one of those charging outfits with a gauge and can of refrigerant, I restarted the car and the AC worked again. Why it turned off is a mystery but it hasn't done it since. So, I concluded that even my car knows when to stop trying to please my wife!!

The bane of any tech fixing anything, an intermittent issue. Please let us know how this works out. Keep the good stuff coming.

I have been in that exact spot. Everything just shut down....but everything worked... It all seemed fine. It ended up being a ground.

Dont forget the connection on the GEM module. These are known to get dirty and fail on the taurus. Often cleaning the connector and a little lube resolves it.

If anyone can figure it out, you can. I would trust your parts canon because you are a good man and honest.

Congratulations on your success. Common sense and clear communication and experience are your strengths and we all appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

Congratulations Kenny, on 50k subs 🎉

i'am a subscriber from Canada your honesty and integrity regarding the automotive repair industry is impeccable.thank YOU KENNY so much for sharing your knowledge and keeping the industry respectable. GOD BLESS

Hey Kenny, really been enjoying your videos, recently subscribed. Over 30 years as a tech. My go to for any intermittent motor operation (fuel pump, blower motor, etc.) is my low amp clamp and a graphing multi meter such as the Snap-on Vantage. If there is a worn spot in the armature, you will see an obvious downward spike. Most common with a motor that won't start working until you start tapping on it. Even if you can't duplicate the condition, you can see the bad spot on the pattern.

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I would give the blower motor a gentle tap with a small hammer. I've come across a similar fault where the brushes were worn out in the blower motor and intermittently not working. In saying that I've also seen solid state resistors fail. It's one of those things..how long do you spend on the diagnosis. Love your videos. Have a great day mate.

Kenny, I run into issues like this all the time, I am a one man operation and sometimes you simply don’t have time to joyride hoping for a failure. It too hate to just guess without proper diagnosis. I’ve seen several auto climate control resistors on these Fords fail quite often, sometimes intermittent loss of fan, sometimes loss of certain speeds. Think your “Parts Cannon” would probably be a good shot on this one. I’ve had numerous aftermarket resistors either fail or not work correctly out of the box on this style resistor and I buy them only from Ford now. Keep up the great work, love your content!

Good evening Mr Kenny hope y'all had a wonderful day

Cant wait until you come out with new videos. I love your effort to really show us whats going on and getting close up and in. Not easy to fix and film. But you have ut down pat.

Many customers don't know that when the car is cold, and defrost is selected, the AC compressor automatically turns on to send colder air at the windshield. This is because warm defrost air hitting a cold windshield can cause dangerous fogging of the inner windshield. If you live in a cold climate, people who wear glasses will recall that their cold glasses fog up when they come inside. By cooling the defrost air first, water in that ambient warmer air condenses out inside the AC evaporator and drips onto the ground. Then there isn't as much water in the cold air blown onto the cold windshield. I wouldn't be surprised to see that an automatic AC controller may use vent doors to direct that air away from hitting passengers. Most of us don't notice that because we don't turn on the heat until the engine is warm enough to produce heat.

We have 2 of them. And if it's blowing those credit card style resistors generally the blower motor is drawing too much and needs replaced as well

Parts cannon loaded!!! Lol!!!! 😂 I feel the same sometimes!!!

I had to replace mine on my 2006 F150. The blower wouldn't run on speed setting number 1. So I googled the problem and it led me to a RU-vid video to replace it. Mine was in about the same area that the Taurus is. Fairly easy to get to and solved the problem. I was thinking is was the blower motor at first. Nope it was that resistor. The price has gone up a lot from when I changed mine. It was only $25 with shipping.

I had the same problem with a Mercedes, the scan tool even said it was the blower resistor I changed it but didn't solve the problem, then the thought crossed my mind that it had 4-zone air conditioning, so I checked and sure enough, extra blower resistance in the center console for rear air conditioning

I remember growing up my best friend his mom had an 85 Olds cutlass that the radio would go all staticy and she'd pull out a mini baseball bat smack the dash with it and it straightened right out for 10 minutes 😅

Good morning, Ford usually uses a power transistor to control the blower. they also use a relay for max blower speed. It is a module that can be acessed from the engine side of firewall.

Hey Kenny,these can be a bit of a pain. Had a '11 gmc Canyon,intermittent hvac shut down. Ended up being the community ground on the right front fender, looks like a relay at a glance,really poor design. Probably 8+ wires going to it. Cut it out, soldered in 3 new eyelets,permanent fix. Thanks for the videos! Have a great day!

Resistor and replacement plug for 2004 Dodge Dakota was $21.99 at O'Reilly's.

On some of the motors, the input pin shorts inside the motor sometimes.

212000 miles, I’d change that blower motor too if it needed it or not, but thats on the owner. It’s probably on the way out sooner or later anyway. That blowers done a of spinning in 212000 miles.

Blower motor fan speed is independent of temperature control, only difference is how fast the temp changes due to the selected speed. I can't say for certain about the digital fan speed controllers, but the older analog resistive type speed controllers are easy to test as you may know. Those types speed controllers only work for lower speeds, so if the blower motor runs on high but no other speed, it was pretty much a 100 percent certainty the speed resistor was toast, as full high speed actually bypasses the speed controller, at that point a controller isn't necessary, the blower motor runs at full amps. My guess is, if the blower motor runs at any speed, then odds are the digital speed controller is not the issue. Btw, have you checked the cab filter?... those can play havoc when they're plugged up if it's got one.

Ford control panels are notorious for bad solder points. Check for burn mark on circuit board (re-solder)

Some of those Ford's the sunlight sensor would make them to weird things

Load the parts cannon!! JK you found the only Ford with more then 5 miles with no problems. Well almost

Step 1 is always verify customer complaint.

Saw your channel on your truck at McDonald’s so I thought I’d follow you 😂

Use your tool like a probe 3 you can test the blower with that

Hmmm. Blower motor works some times and not at others, but bumping stuff around caused it to start working. With this being a high mileage car, could it be worn out brushes? I've seen it before.

When a fellow tech says PISNIC and walks off shaking his head... Problem In Seat Not In Car

blower motor resistor only controls the fan speed and if it goes bad you only get high speed,if the fan doesn't work it has nothing to do with resistor what might happen is the brushes on the blower motor are eaten up so it some times let the current go through the motor and sometimes not,that's most likely the problem,if there is not somewhere else

Test resistor then test the motor if resistor is good replace the motor. That’s my 2c

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YES intermittent faults are a pain if its a safety item then i will keep and drive if not i will tell customer use it till it gets worse or if they can get it to me when the problem is happening some have asked me to fix it so i price every part that is in that system to cover my ass then hit them with the price that thats what it could cost

Which group on FB there are several backyard mechanics groups?

Did you put the part in ?

I wouldn't consider that a parts cannon? It's an educated guess, upon experience? There is a difference? Probably would have done the same thing, myself? Good job, Kenny.

Did it work?

People want to know the mileage because as George Carlin once said about obituaries everyone subtracts their age to see how they compare (or how much longer they have to live) 😜

Substenance? What does that mean? @5.22

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Using Google to diagnose lol

When you said it was a ford i knew it was junk

That was a funny story about the customer and the thermostat. One of my moron friends thought that the thermostat setting was the temp of the air coming out of his AC vents. Could not get him to understand how it worked. Probably the dumbest person I've ever met.

Kenny we DON'T fix FoRdS, we SCRAP THEM!!!............The world always needs more paper weights!

Ten years late to the party. Kind of learned by watching the real pros huh?

Gotta give you credit... It's hard to produce daily content. I'm struggling with every couple of weeks...