NHTSA Complaint #10440635 — 2000 FORD EXPEDITION

MULTIPLE INSTANCES FOLLOWING RAIN OF: VEHICLE TURNS OVER BUT WILL NOT START. REMOVING THE KEY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING WILL OCCUR- HEATER FAN BLOWER COMES ON AND WILL ONLY GO OFF WITH THE KEY IN AND IN THE ON POSITION. LIGHTS MAY OR MAY NOT COME ON. RADIO MAY OR MAY NOT COME ON. ALL THIS WITH KEY OUT, VEHICLE EMPTY AND CLOSED. SOMETIMES BLOWER WILL COME ON IN EMPTY VEHICLE. IF THE CAR STARTS SOMETIMES THE WIPERS WILL NOT WORK, THE HORN WILL NOT WORK, RADIO WILL NOT WORK, LIGHTS WILL NOT WORK OR BLINKERS GO ON. ANY OR ALL OF THIS MAY OCCUR. SOMETIMES AND ODER LIKE BURNING OR SOUR GAS WILL OCCUR. IF THE RAIN QUITS AND THE VEHICLE SITS FOR MINUTES TO HOURS ALL THESE SYMPTOMS GO AWAY. I HAVE PULLED THE LOWER KICKER PANEL ON THE DRIVERS SIDE AND FOUND EVIDENCE OF WATER BELOW THE GEM NEAR THE EDGE OF THE CARPET. I BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE PROBLEM REPORTED BY MANY AS THE WATER ENTERING FROM THE WINDSHIELD AND SHORTING AT THE GEM FUSE CONNECTION. I AM CONTACTING THE DEALER, IF THEY WILL NOT TAKE CARE OF IT I WILL HAVE A WINDSHIELD REPLACEMENT COMPANY TRY TO RESEAL AND EXAMINE FOR LEAKS. THIS APPEARS TO BE POTENIALLY DANGEROUS IF ENGINE WOULD DIE WHILE DRIVING, LIGHT GO OUT OR WIPERS STOP WORKING. *TR