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MUSTANG GREMLINS

Q: Many thanks for your great magazine. I am hoping you can help me. My late-model Mustang has an intermittent starting problem. It has a pushbutton start system that works much of the time but too often does not work. The dashboard indication I get is “No Key Detected.” I put new batteries in the key fobs, and that didn’t help. I installed a new battery in the car and that also did not help.

The car is still under warranty, and I have taken it to the dealer twice (the last time I left it there for 1.5 weeks). The dealer says they can’t replicate the problem and do not receive a trouble code from the computer diagnostics and can’t fix it without a code.

I contacted Ford Motor Company Customer Service and they assigned a “case” number to it. Ford told the dealer that there must be something interfering from outside the car with the signal in the car. I find that hard to accept, because everything worked fine until three or four months ago. In the interim, my electronic