Great! That's just freaking great. Now if your Mustang has an active exhaust system like mine
does, and that warning comes up, I can tell you most likely it's going to be what I'm going to
show you here in the next couple of minutes. This is my second Mach 1. This is also the second
time I've seen this morning come up. Pretty sure I know where I'm going with this one.
Now to see if my hypothesis is correct I'm going to check the fuse for the active exhaust.
It's this fuse right here. It's located in between these two relays.
I's a 15 Amper. Yeah don't use metal in a fuse panel, but that's blown. So if a fuse is blown
that means there's a short, and if there's a short it's only coming from one area. I'm going to show
you that next. I got to get this car up in the air. Okay now we're going to talk about Ford's
active exhaust. It works off of valves that are located here right off the top of the the mufflers.
Unfortunately they use the same device on the passenger side and the driver's side. On the driver's
side the harness faces front. On the passenger side the harness faces rear towards the frame. The first
time I ran into this issue I blamed myself because I put a resonator delete on there and I figured I
just didn't get this pipe mounted correctly, and the harness had actually rubbed up against the frame,
wore through, caused a short, blew a fuse. This time I haven't messed with this exhaust system at all.
Now I could take this into a Ford warranty shop and have them mess around with it, but since I
know the problem, I know how to fix it, just gonna do it. Excuse the the Odelfi headlamp but it's
just what I use. This is located right up here and if you reach up in here you'll be able to feel a
connector here. I use a little stubby this style screwdriver, pop this connector off. There she goes,
and then I can pull this harness out.
There we go. Son of a [b __ ], Why these guys can't get this right is beyond me. So there's my
harness, you see that white tab there goes back, and if you look closely at the harness, and I'm
gonna try to get my headlamp in here so you can see, there's, the wire's frayed. The wire's frayed
because it's hitting the frame. This car has 3,000 miles on it. This really shouldn't be an issue for me.
Like I said I haven't touched this exhaust system at all. Look up in there you can see what the issue
is the frame is right where the harness is. So I pulled this harness down so you can get a little
better look I just applied some silicone there and it's basic silicone but that should insulate it.
So we fixed our short. All we got to do now is replace the fuse, keep our fingers crossed.
All right so I've got my 15 amp fuse here. It's going to go in this position, which Ford calls 37.
You can tell it's in between these two relays, and it's got a raised section all by itself
push that in, let's give her a shot and see what we got. Oh and this is nice Ford having this harness,
you know, not real well thought out there fellas, females, whoever did that.
Let's give her a shot, go in here exhaust mode, okay, now tell me I can go to sport, oh look at you.
Isn't that lovely? It's nice when something works out.
Let's be good neighbors go to quiet mode, oh it is quiet, let's do track, oh yeah I'll see a manual,
Well we're back in business. So there you have it. It's going to take me way longer to edit this
video than it did to do this repair. That's just how it goes. If you have this issue you want to
go to the dealership you want to hang out and talk to the service writer go right ahead. It's almost
always the harness on the passenger side. This is the second time I've dealt with this. You'd think
Ford would find another way to run that harness, or at least make valves for left and right but doubt
that's going to happen. I would imagine it's going to carry over to the S650 because they
have active exhaust as well and you know Ford doesn't want to R & D a new part but the wiring
harness on the passenger side going back towards the frame causes a short, blows a fuse, makes your
active exhaust not work. Pretty simple fix. For those of you that are doing RES deletes
out there. Make sure you've got a little bit of space between the frame and that harness. That
was what happened to me on my first car. That's why I knew it was an issue and how to fix it.
This car, this is a factory. Everything's Factory so it's a problem with the factory cars as well.
I'm going to be taking a little bit of Hiatus. I'll come back with a lot of content. The 2023 Mustang is
gonna be a thing. It's going to be the S550 if you like the S550 and you want to get one it's
your last chance. It's going to be a half year make, half year rollout. I know there's some back
order on 2022's they're just going to upgrade those to 2023's but I think you could order a
2023. The Mach 1 is back. I would imagine quite a few of the other models are back as well. Once
I get the complete order form I'm going to put the video together on all those as well.
So thanks for watching. If this is your issue you know where to fish it out, until next time, we'll see you