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RE: Off Topic: Merc Sable Fuel/Ignition Shutoff?

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Subject: RE: Off Topic: Merc Sable Fuel/Ignition Shutoff?
From: Pete Holsberg <pjh@mccc.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 20:37:40 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Bill Fuhrmann wrote:

> > A neighbor has an interesting story about driving a
> > Mercury Sable (98 or 99) on the shoulder of the road
> > and having the engine cut out. He says they weren't
> > able to start it until a State Trooper came along and
> > hit some kind of reset switch in the trunk!
> 
> I was hit from behind a few years ago and the other car
> wouldn't start.  The Trouper had them open the trunk and
> he found the switch by the left tail light.  He said that
> quite a few cars had it there to shut off the electric
> fuel pump in case of an accident.
> 
> On my car, the fuel pump is powered up when the car is
> being started, the engine control module recognizes that
> the engine is running, or there is oil pressure.

I wonder if they have that in Crown Vics and, if so, it
dodn't prevent the probelm the cops have had.

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