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Hi, Mine is a Mk1 2.0 Ghia Mk1 Galaxy. I've just fitted a Ford 2007R stereo, from ebay, and it powers up ok. However, I cannot get any sound. I have both the large black plug and the small yellow plug fitted, as well as the silver amp one. I can search and select all stations but I cannot get any sound! I accidentally pulled the front off my old 2007 :lol: , but now remember that before I did the sound had stopped. I've checked fuseboard level 1 and all are ok. Are there more fuses for the amp, or do they have a reputation of giving up the ghost? I'm due on holiday Monday and I'm not looking forward to a 4 hour drive without sound! Any help would be much appreciated.

Hey Galaxy Forum! Got strange problems with my 1996 2.0 Ghia Petrol Galaxy; the symptoms might be related, might not! Part 1 - low speed in high gear at low revs, around 1500 - 2000, engine misfires under anything more than a medium throttle. I can drive around it by a low throttle (doesn't make the acceleration any better than it already isn't!) or by using a lower gear (and therefore higher revs). Part 2 - when coming up to traffic lights etc, if I dip the clutch and let her coast to a halt, the revs dip to about 600rpm. Sometimes dip to 500 or lower, sometimes dips to zero indicated and then pops back to around 1000rpm. Seems worse after a long run where I've been above 3000rpm for a while (at least this is when i've noticed it). It has only ever dipped and stalled once, but has been close a couple of times. Again, I can drive around it by blipping the throttle and/or using the gears, but this isn't helping me work out what the problem might be. Part 1 and Part 2 may not be related, as Part 1 has been there, more or less, since I've had the car (about 18 months), although it is certainly worse now than it ever was. Often when the car is cold it idles at around 1200rpm. Astoundingly, I only paid

My original thread and it's not fixed yet!!! Get the VEHICLE SECURITY NUMBER from Ford [reluctant] and you can then easily recode it. Saves a fotune, mine should be done tomorrow...

hi did you replace the black ring around the lock which detects the pats chip and i guess you replaced the pats control brown box size of fag packet under ecu white wires going to it? Hi, didn't know about any of that... I've been advised that the crank sensor would need a re-program, but this is not likely either!!! The way forward is to get the VEHICLE SECURITY NUMBER from Ford, which can then be used by a decent Auto-electrician to re-program the key! Ford will not like giving the number [as it means you don't need to go to them...] but as it is your car then they cannot legally prevent you accessing this information. Save yourself a fortune!!!

I have a Mk1 Galaxy that has developed a starting problem. I've been advised on the forum that I've likely lost the PATs chip out of the remote key. The remote key doesn't have a chip so that looks indeed correct. However, I have swapped the ECU, immobiliser and ignition barrel from a different car [which has flat keys, only one of which has the chip] and the same symptoms happen: Car starts immediately and then door led flashes and car cuts out. It does this with any combination of the two ecu's, immobilisers, ignition barrels and keys. One side issue is that the brown and red wire going to the connector on the ignition barrel has previously been cut or damaged and has been soldered back together [there's no splits so it's not a circuit issue]. The serial numbers of the ecu and immobilisers do not match [mine is a Ghia 2.0 and the spares are from an Aspen 2.0], but as the symptoms are the same I'm not sure this makes any difference. I'm expecting the next step to be to put the original stuff back on, rob the PATS chip from the spares and go see an Auto-electrician. Any other ideas? By the way, who decided to put the ecu behind the clocks!!?

Hi all. Have a Mk1 2.0 Petrol Galaxy and our [only] key split in two last week and it looks like the PATS chip is lost [5 days searching on the drive and through the house hasn't worked so far...]. Excellent threads show a common theme of no PATS chip = no start. I've been advised to either go to Ford and get a new key and have them re-program it, or buy a key off ebaY [risky] and get it re-programmed, or buy an ECU, immobiliser and key [matching set from a scrap vehicle] and fit without the need to program [i've been advised i may only need the immobiliser and key not necessarily ECU as well on this last point]. I know I need a PATS chip, but if I get one, how do I make sure it works ok? If I only need a new key then how do I know the frequency of 433 or 433.92? Mine has a number on the side that matches the black box under the passenger seat [immobiliser ecu?] but no other identifying marks and it looks an easy way to waste