# 2003 Ford Taurus - No hear

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2003-ford-taurus-no-hear/174994>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** heating, ford\
**Created:** [February 14, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2003-ford-taurus-no-hear/174994 "2021-02-14T21:37:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Shaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5e9695/32.png) [@Shaw](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Shaw)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2003-ford-taurus-no-hear/174994/1 "2021-02-14T21:37:29Z")

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I have no heat in my car at all. I have flushed whole Rad system, changed the Thermostat and still nothing.

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**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2003-ford-taurus-no-hear/174994/2 "2021-02-14T23:10:09Z")

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Taurus has a “H” shaped bypass hose assy on firewall. You have to unhook and bypass this assy by unhooking hoses there. If core is plugged, the fluid bypasses it. Thus the name. You have to force water thru heater core. Remove panel under wiper assy to reach it. Makes job much easier.

 ![core](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/5/4/540fe3c117261e0490b1ea7b0fedc607314fc6c4.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2003-ford-taurus-no-hear/174994/3 "2021-02-15T19:30:13Z")

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I’m with @Cavell on this one

We used to have many Tauruses of this vintage in our fleet

And I flushed a LOT of heater cores to restore proper functionality

In many cases, they were plugged due to the coolant not being serviced frequently enough . . . if ever

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**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2003-ford-taurus-no-hear/174994/4 "2021-02-15T20:18:47Z")

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Me thinks the heading needs edited \> 😉

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2003-ford-taurus-no-hear/174994/5 "2021-02-15T20:58:45Z")

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> [@VOLVO-V70](#):
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> Me thinks the heading needs edited

Can you speak up?  
I can’t heat you.  
😉