Dont Burn Your Cooling Fans Out, Check Your Grille Shutter Mechanism, Ford Mondeo Mk5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ย. 2022
- When the active grille shutter mechanism on your mk5 mondeo is damaged there is a high chance your radiator cooling fans could be on full blast whenever the engine is running which will eventually lead to your cooling fans burning out.
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As always Alan a great watch ‘ you can tell how sad I am I was a mechanic myself for fifty years but still love watching your channel keep the great work up 🚗🚗🔧🔧 cheers 👍👍
My dad used to hang a sheet of leather in front of the rad in winter to help warm the engine up quicker in winter! Good vid Alan.
That’s a lot of top and bottom synchronised slats Alan. You are one for your slats. Don’t have nightmares with slats. Sleep well ( crimewatch strapline ). Quite a satisfying vid watching it. Thanks.
Some of them do give me nightmares poor old mark tilldesly. Poor Jason swift poor other children it haunts me tbh
what an absolute pain just for the sake of a few mpg at best! Great video again alan!
Issue is more complex crap on the car to make it green , but in overall greenish terms it's just a tick box for manufacturer ..but end user pays for it in cost of repairs
Great detailed job as always Alan🙏👍🙂
Yet another great video Alan!! Thank You 😀👍
Rufford Ford videos come to mind for me as a Ford Kuga owner. The quoted max depth through water is a piddling 20cm. I won’t be going trough anything deeper having seen this.
Top info there pal. Hope you are well.
Was just eating a pasty when you discovered that bird... Great vid as always 👍👍
Looking forward to seeing the gearbox bearing in the next video
Mate...........I Love your work.........
Great detailed video as usual 👌..
Thankyou Alan after watched your video I went to check my car because is very slow heating I can see those top shutters are blocked open..I thankyou I wish you wher near I would try book an apontmen at you specialist garage..
There must be a way of tricking the ecu in thinking that the grill is working but it has been removed
Hi Alan great video,anyway of just disconnecting and not replacing it mine are stuck open?
if theyre a pain why not take them off and stick something on the motor to keep the ecu happy
As always: Thank you very much!!! You are the MAN!)
Hi Alan. My other half has taken a liking to the updated front bumper on MK4 Mondeo that have the DRL's. We've got a 2009 Titanium X Estate and I wondered if you think it could be done without too much hassle. I'm an ex mechanic so understand about electrics, modules etc. Is there enough provision on the pre facelift to wire in the DRL's? Do they have to be coded? TIA
Does this apply to the mk4? Mine just went into limp after slowing down after a long run and I think it could be the problem although there are no codes showing. Great video as usual Alan
Great video, Alan. I don't know why those fancy slats are needed. What happened to the good old fashioned thermostat, which stops water flowing through the radiator when the engine is cool and warming up?
They still do for temperature regulation with a thermostat, although it itself is electronic. The slat's closing is to get an even quicker warmup to meet the eco mentalist emission regs
At the start of october someone pulled out on me, very minor damage to my mk5. Similiar damage to the one in the video. Anyway it went to fords accident repair place & when i got it back they'd not plugged the grille shutters back in so the fans were constantly on.
is the intercooler closed off as well?
my missus has problems like that now + again, she puts thrush cream on her slats to stop her fan burning... keep up the good work young man
Her flaps must be to dry, try WD69
Great video
GREAT to hear a couple of the old WAHOOS Alan, now we just need car parts flying thru the air and we have the OLD Alan back 😂😂😂😂😂😂
hey alan a bit off rhe vidro topic wana ask where is a front window defrost fuse ? got bit frost here now car is covered in ice every morning rear on works grand bt front not cant find where the fuse sits thnx
Cool 😎 never knew that was behind my grille, i'll think twice now about sticking my jet wash in there 😞
So from it being new, I’ve always complained that it just takes forever to warm up-The engine I mean-
So today at 5°, I went and had a look at the front they were open started the engine and went back and had a look after a minute or so, and they were still open?
Hi Alan is this system fitted to the Ford Kuga 2016 to 2017 TDCI 180BHP model
Alan, are you having difficulty getting parts from Ford or delayed due to back orders?
The USA has NASA , we have Alan .
Well said
Very interesting.
Does anyone know how to bypass the slat mechanism motor so that it tricks the ecu into thinking it's there? I've removed mine as I live in Australia and it would love the extra airflow. When I purchased the I noticed that the thermo fans did not work when I was driving it home. Hooked them directly up to 12v and sure enough it needs new ones. Upon investigating the slats were damaged, I've had the car for 6 months without thermo fans but the weather is now warming up so I will replace them but don't want them to suffer the same fate of course. Parts for these cars here are not cheap! No issues with overheating, in fact the car usually doesn't even come up to operating temp by the time I get to work in the morning (ambient temps 10-15°c on the highway)
THANKIOU
My mk5 have coolant overheating light on my dash but we can’t seem to find the cause. Needle goes in the red for a few minutes then goes back to normal. During this time the fans chipped in
The lady who ran into the long hitch on my ML Class in her Mondeo told me how much it cost to repair. Now I know why. BTW, I was putting petrol in my car at a pump at the time of the accident.
Be very careful Alan when your messing with your flaps 😮.
Have those shutters really lasted, 237k miles?
My fan won’t kick in and I’m worried bout taking this bumper off
This makes me wonder if mines ever worked because my God it takes a long time to heat up
Hi Alan, i asked the question high pitch whine all gears ?, my car currently, Look forwad to the Autopsy 🤣
I do too, it'll be a Xmas special
Lol come on we are nearly in lmao iam sure I've heard that before🤣🤣
Hi , where you have the garage? I have same problem, can you help me ?😢
sorry I have left the country now
Exactly the problem I've got on my Mk4.5.
Alan is it maybe possible that you could do a video on what to look for or check and how, when the “front” heated windscreen stops working on the MK5 Mondeo? I recently updated from the MK4 to the MK5 and just found out mine isn’t working 🙄
I have a Galaxy I was replacing a fuse and I noticed 2 fuses, 1 for left hand heated windscreen and one for right hand, so it heats in 2 Half's, so Mondeo maybe the same, could be a simple fuse!
Alan, would you mind me messaging you directly regarding the shutter system? I have a solution for these that might save you some headache and costs in the long run if you do these often. Cheers.
hi i wouldnt mind knowing a solution with these as i do aot of work on them. Thanks
Hello yes me too please do share!
You and your slats Alan. What you like.
Stars and Stripes new mondeo has same thing they must have bay watch drivers new
Model
I'm a sensible sod I have a mk4, 😂
So its the modern version of taping a sheet of cardboard over your grill in winter. Nice.
Then you wonder why you're give Lego, Mechano and Jigsaw puzzles as a kid.
Me and fiddly clips really don’t get on
Temp over 15c, no arguments missus that morning, a chill attitude and some warm sunshine coming in and the clips are just ok. Don't go with any of the former.
They don't need a shunt to stop the flap assembly working .... another BS environmental addition that kills cars .