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Old 04-26-2009, 10:43 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The wife had her 2005 Escape jump started and lost much of the interior electrical. Does anyone have a schematic I can trace the problem out on?

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Haynes or Chilton's manual.
Autozone used to have wiring diagrams on their site. They upgraded teh look of the site and the diagrams are barely legible. I complained to them about that, maybe they improved the diagrams, if not perhaps if enough people complain to them, they will.

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Thanks for your thoughts Joe?. Yeah, all I have right now is the owners manual which, along with 10 bits, will get you a cup of coffee, if you need to know anything more than what you teach your daughter about a vehicle. My next move is to Autozone for a Haynes - just thought maybe someone could save me the trip and 40 bucks. This is my son's wife's car and she's gone with it so I haven't been able to check anything yet. I suspect the feed to the kick panel fuse box is out, though I haven't had the opportunity to check it yet, and I need to know how that is fed.

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I would give a long look to the high current fuses under the hood. Is it possible one of the jumper cables got reversed and caused an "event"?
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Thanks - yeah, that's what I kinda figured happened, but I'll be dammed if I can track down the source of the problem. Here's what she's got:

Radio is dead
Dome lights are dead
Door locks work with accessory on but dead when off.
Trip odometer reset and not advancing

I haven't found anything else that doesn't work.

Yeah, I gave all the cartridge fuses a visual and pulled and tested those that could have anything to do with the above circuits. I didn't find anything nor did I expect to as those fuses feed other functions as well that are working. I also went through the central junction box and even tested the accessory relay as there's nothing to tell me just exactly what it controls. I'm baffled.

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