My fiance has a '02 Explorer and I've driven it through some pretty rough
stuff without the fuel shutting off. When I was younger I had a '94 Escort
and I was rear-ended on the highway. I was doing about 55, they were doing
around 85. The collision sent them WAY off the road but they recovered and
continued on. When I attempted to follow them my car shut off after about
100 yards. I had to push the switch in the trunk to get it going again. I
don't think that these switches are a bad thing and it takes (in my
experience) a whole lot more than dropping a couple of tires off of the
road to get them to cut off.
Paul
At 04:34 PM 2/2/2003 -0500, Red Raevyn wrote:
>I'm not sure on the year, but a friend of mine has a Taurus with the same
>thing. I've also heard of them in Explorer's. It cuts off the fuel pump
>when you go 'off-road' (in my friend's case the right wheels went off the
>road when she was being sloppy), until you hit a reset switch in the trunk.
>I suppose the idea is that you don't want the engine running if you stray
>off road or get into some kind of accident, but if you ask me it's simply
>another piece of Ford engineering brilliance.
>
>Happily without a domestic car,
>Greg Maust
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