Ford Taurus

topcop1833 · Post by **topcop1833** » Sat May 28, 2005 8:42 pm

anyone do one of these? i'm looking at an 02 to work on and it seems as though there are no tail-light falsher for any new fords. i have seen them in some new crown vics, yet all the makers say "not for use in fords". any guesses......
-mike

007 · Post by **007** » Sat May 28, 2005 9:39 pm

The older flashback's disabled the BTSI circuit in Ford's due to the way Ford designed the circuit. Once a couple of cops had cars roll away from them because the shifter was bumped out of park, then the crap hit the fan.

n1pfc · Post by **n1pfc** » Sun May 29, 2005 5:32 am

theres a couple available that will work in fords. The other way to do it is to put diodes inline with the feeds on the brake light circuits. This way when the flasher actuates the brake lights, it will not feed back into the circuits that require you to hit the brake pedal to actuate the shifter. Doing it yourself with the diodes is probably not Ford approved, but it's essentially what the flashers do that are Ford approved.

Kurt

FFParamedic571 · Post by **FFParamedic571** » Sun May 29, 2005 6:05 am

I just finished an 05 taurus. There is no problem using an " approved " flasher such as a sound off or federal FL-6.

The car I did was an Unmarked fire Marshalls car. All LED's and strobes with a tail and headlight flasher..

topcop1833 · Post by **topcop1833** » Sun May 29, 2005 4:58 pm

thank you one and all!

topcop1833 · Post by **topcop1833** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:41 pm

does anyone know if the 02 taurus is a 3 or 4 wire system. and... would buying two brake light harnesses be a good idea to make the conections instead of cutting wires...?

FFParamedic571 · Post by **FFParamedic571** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:46 pm

three wire. brake is green/ orange and blue /orange. Back up lights is Black/ pink

Take the connections at the passenger side plug just before it goes through the grommet to the lights

topcop1833 · Post by **topcop1833** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:41 am

thanks again, i love this site. so much info out there...

bellersley · Post by **bellersley** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:20 am

I've not done any installs on Ford (and very limited on GM), but aren't Ford vehicles ground-switched?

I've seen some people complain that ground-switched lights are a pain in the arse to do anything with. I don't "get" why this is. Seems to me that you could wire in a high-current relay and physically disconnect the vehicle supply from the lights, then flash away, and when you turn the relay off, everything is as it was from the factory.

Or am I missing something?