Arkan

I'm having strange electrical problems with my 2010 FG XR6T. They are all random, and come and go. Usually they go when I take it to a mechanic! :( Problems: - The car turns off randomly and dies. - The car won't start sometimes (not even an attempt at cranking). - Dash says fog lights are on (green symbol) when they're not (the fog light switch is off and the fog lights are actually off). - The airbag light comes on (orange light on dash). - It comes up "SECURITY CODE" on the head unit (but goes away by itself without actually needing a security code) - The central locking sometimes doesn't work (not always the same doors play up) I have to crawl around inside the vehicle and manually lock the doors then lock the driver's with the key last. - The climate control won't turn OFF, even with the ignition off and the doors shut and the central locking locked, the climate control fan stays running. - Sometimes the climate control wont blow cold air, only hot (even when set to L). - The dash lights won't turn off, sometimes they fickler off and on. - Windows at random won't go up or down. All of these issues are random, intermittent and can be solved by either turning the car off or unplugging the battery for a couple of hours. Things tried so far: - new battery x 2 - new earth wire - new battery connectors - checked fuses and connectors under the hood all firmly plugged in. Any ideas?

Hi guys, Hopefully someone can give some advice here. My 2010 Xr6T recently reached 120,000k's so I wanted to get the ZF flushed as a few mates recommended it, saying that even though it was sealed it was a good idea to prolong the life of the tranny, which seemed to make sense. So I phoned the local Ford dealer and they wanted $1800 for this, so I rang around a couple of the local XR6 tuning specalists in Sydney and got prices off them (ZF flush, filter change and fill with genuine ZF oil). I eneded up getting it done with one of them for around $700. Anyway as soon as it was done I noticed a whine in between gear changes, especially from 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 3rd. The noise is a whine/whirl, like something spools up before the gear change and spools down for a few seconds after the gear changes. It's definitely coming from the transmission area (mid car) not the front of the car at the engine bay. It only happens when the transmission is cold, after about 10 mins of driving the noise is gone completely, there is no noise in park or neutral. I called up the tuning house that did the job and they said they did the job properly and it must be something else. But I just wanted to check here and see if anyone knew what the problem might be as I'm worried it might be damaging something driving it like this and that I got ripped off and they didn't use genuine ZF oil or didn't fill it properly etc, Which makes me reluctant to go back there to be honest. It's probably my fault for not going to Ford and getting it done, but $1800 for an oil change seemed rediculous. Thanks