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Just forwarning anyone doing upfitting on a 2013+ Ford Explorer Civilian model...
Customer wanted a hand held siren/lighting controller mounted in the center console so it was undercover and out of the way... piece of cake. Mounted the mount... popped off the sides and back of the center console... planned my hole for the wire....pulled out the drill and drilled down through the very rear of the center storage compartment. Everything went fine.... for a while.
Then the key fobs stopped working... then the BCM failed... then the tire pressure alert started throwing errors...
Took to dealership... BCM was a warranty fix (thankfully)... but unbeknownst to me, at the rear of the center console, hidden and sandwiched between the bottom of the inner storage area and the underside of the console is a circuit board which houses the tire pressure sensor receiver module.
Those don't work well with a 3/4" hole drilled right through the middle of it apparently.
It's not visible unless you pull the whole console out and look under the center section. I felt where I was planning to drill and felt smooth plastic. Because it's a circuit board... no metal housing, no plastic housing.. it's a green circuit board like Ford put it in there as an afterthought.
$410 in parts and labor later.... the stupid chip is replaced and everything is fine.
Something about "yeah, this isn't warrantied since you drilled right through the middle of it" ... so... yeah. :sadcry:
Just be careful... look once, look twice... look three times... BEFORE you drill.
Have I mentioned how much I hate the Ford Explorer and the Interceptor for upfitting?
Customer wanted a hand held siren/lighting controller mounted in the center console so it was undercover and out of the way... piece of cake. Mounted the mount... popped off the sides and back of the center console... planned my hole for the wire....pulled out the drill and drilled down through the very rear of the center storage compartment. Everything went fine.... for a while.
Then the key fobs stopped working... then the BCM failed... then the tire pressure alert started throwing errors...
Took to dealership... BCM was a warranty fix (thankfully)... but unbeknownst to me, at the rear of the center console, hidden and sandwiched between the bottom of the inner storage area and the underside of the console is a circuit board which houses the tire pressure sensor receiver module.
Those don't work well with a 3/4" hole drilled right through the middle of it apparently.
It's not visible unless you pull the whole console out and look under the center section. I felt where I was planning to drill and felt smooth plastic. Because it's a circuit board... no metal housing, no plastic housing.. it's a green circuit board like Ford put it in there as an afterthought.
$410 in parts and labor later.... the stupid chip is replaced and everything is fine.
Something about "yeah, this isn't warrantied since you drilled right through the middle of it" ... so... yeah. :sadcry:
Just be careful... look once, look twice... look three times... BEFORE you drill.
Have I mentioned how much I hate the Ford Explorer and the Interceptor for upfitting?