Servicing Your Explorer
Never use a metal exhau st collector when you service you r
vehicle. If the metal collector contacts any of you r vehicle’s
plastic trim or bu mper parts they could melt or deform .
Do not drive you r vehicle if it does not operate prop erly. See
you r dealer if the engine ru ns on for more than five second s
after you shu t it off or if it misfires, surges, stalls, or backfires.
Inform ation abou t you r vehicle’s emission control system is on
the Vehicle Emission Control Inform ation decal located on or
near the engine. This decal identifies engine displacem ent and
gives som e tu ne-u p specifications.
Readiness for Inspection/Maintenance Testing
In som e localities it may becom e a legal requ irem ent to pass an
Insp ection/ Maintenance (I/ M) test of the On-Board Diagnostic
(OBD) II system . If the vehicle’s pow ertrain system or its battery
has just been serviced , the OBD II system is reset to a not read y
for I/ M testing cond ition. To prep are for I/ M testing, the law
specifies a “need for ad ditional mixed city and highw ay driving
to com plete the check” of the OBD II system . As soon as all of
the OBD II system checks are successfu lly com pleted , the OBD
II system is set to the read y cond ition. The am ou nt of driving
requ ired to reach the read y cond ition varies with ind ivid ual
driving patterns. To com plete this requ irem ent in the minim um
am ou nt of tim e, refer to the OBD II Drive Cycle defined below .
If the vehicle ow ner cannot or does not want to do the
ad ditional driving requ ired by law , a service center can perform
this drive cycle as it wou ld any other typ e of rep air work.
OBD II Drive Cycle
The follow ing step s must be ru n in the ord er show n. If any
step s are interru pted , rep eat the preced ing step . Any safe
driving mod e is accep table betw een step s.
Alw ays drive veh icle in safe manner accord ing to traffic
condition s and obey all traffic law s.
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| Categories | Ford Explorer Manuals, Ford Manuals |
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| Document Type | Free Auto PDF Manual Download. |
| Model Year | 1996 |
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| Copyright | Attribution Non-commercial |
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