I have a 2013 F-150 crew cab Fx4 that I need help with. The Vin number is 1FTFW1EF4DKE47842. About 2 months ago I was driving and smelled something electrical burning, pulled over and saw smoke coming out of the hole where the seatbelt comes out on the pillar next to the driver seat. Turned the truck off and started pulling up inside trim panels to find that about half of the wires in my body harness melted together between the back driver's side door up to about the emergency brake. It looks like I had two wires going into the back driver side door break in the rubber boot that goes from the door to the body and short out causing the problem. I contacted ford to learn that that is considered an obsolete part it is no longer available. I've contacted almost every warehouse, obsolete part house, scrounged the internet, checked at every junkyard within 100 miles of me and have no luck finding the same harness. The tag on the harness has the number - DL3T14A005FCC, I was told by ford that the actual Ford part number is DL3Z14A00FCB. Does anyone happen to know where I find this harness or know which harness I am able to replace it with? Hoping to find something to replace it with before I have to try and start cutting and splicing this melted mess back together. Any help would be tremendously appreciated.

 

You really only have 2 options. Finding a used harness somewhere. Junkyard/ebay/etc.
or repairing the harness in your truck extremely tedious but not impossible.
Also, this should be covered under you car insurance unless you don't have full coverage. But keep in mind, going through insurance WILL total your truck. I'd all but it.

 

Thanks for the reply Mpete. I'm definitely aware those are basically my only two options. I've scoured eBay with no luck and went to all the pull and pay yards within 100 miles of me. 99% of yards chop the body harnesses to get what they want and don't pull body harnesses to sell. I guess the better question would have been does anyone know if there are any harnesses that are interchangeable with the harness in my truck without me having to strip trucks to check every connection to find out. Also progressive said they do not cover body harnesses basically under any circumstance. I just can't believe that Ford says the body harness on a 12 year old vehicle is obsolete and has no solution for me to replace it, absolutely crazy.

 

Well, unfortunately, NO, there is no way to know if another harness will or will not work. They are application specific. It's not unheard of for parts that aren't commonly replaced to be discontinued. They will make an educated guess how many they think will be needed total, forever, have them all made while the the vehicle is still in production. Once the stock runs out, thats it. I have also seen some car companies that will make replacement harnesses available that simply have every connector possible on it and some just aren;t used depending on options. Unfortunately Ford simply does not believe in doing that. Covid after-effects is going to send a lot of 12th gen trucks to their grave prematurely. Because of the drastically overused term of "supply chain constraints" A LOT of parts for out of production vehicles were discontinued just so the factories could focus their attention on higher priority parts for vehicles currently in production. I have 12th gen so of course I am always looking up things just out of curiosity. Only to find its no longer available.

edit: looking at the part number you have listed, it looks like it's a lower trim FX4. With that said I would start looking for the highest trim truck you can find. Like a Platinum, Limited, King Ranch, etc. It will have extra connections, but should have everything yours has. It may plug in and work fine, but if not it should at least have the maximum amount of wires that you can use to repair yours.

 

Thanks, I figured finding a higher trim harness to see what I could do with it might be the way to go.