Assuming you've already checked the fuses, a common problem is the resistor
assembly for the low speed of the cooling fan.
Also inspect the wire harness for burned contacts/sockets.
Idle the car and let it start to overheat. The cooling fan should kick in
at
low speed a notch after the middle of the temperature gauge.
If the low speed fails and temperature continues to rise, the high speed
will kick in at about the red marker.
The low speed is always high speed when the a/c is on, so if the fan
starts
with the a/c on and doesn't with the a/c off, it's the resistor.
-Stanjo
"Chicago Paddling-Fi****ng" <jwn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:fuh98d$c89$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> It's suddenly a lot warmer in Chicago (31 shootings over the weekend). I
> was
> driving my 2000 Focus Friday night in a what would be considered a
pretty
> bad
> neighorhood to go to a co-workers family members wake when the Focus
> temperature went nearly into the red (it stayed within the white but was
> right
> on the line. Always watching the gauges, I had already turned on the
heat
> on
> full blast as I noticed it get hotter. Of course, I also had my windows
> rolled
> up because of the area I was in to avoid any troubles (the radio was
> already
> covering a number of shootings by that time of night)...
>
> Sticky thermostat? Mis behaving fan switch?
>
> It didn't happen Saturday or Sunday, just when it would have been the
> worst
> possible moment...
>
> Due to the car troubles, I skipped the drive thru and went inside to let
> the
> car cool a while (i've never been to a place with a drive thru before);
> (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1154/is_n2_v81/ai_13435569/pg_3)
>
> --
> John Nelson
>
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