Ford Mercury Villager 1997 Owner's Manual page 247

Roadside Emergencies
Fuses, Fuse Links and Circuit Breakers
Fuses, fuse links and circuit breakers protect your vehicle's
electrical system from overloading. If electrical parts in your vehicle
are not working, the system may have been overloaded
causing a blown fuse or tripped circuit breaker. Before you
replace or repair any electrical parts, check the appropriate fuses
or circuit breakers.
The following charts tell you which fuses or circuit breakers
protect each electrical part of your vehicle. If a fuse blows or a
circuit breaker trips (opens) a circuit, all the parts of your vehicle
that use that circuit will not work.
Once you have determined which fuses or circuit breakers to
check, follow the procedures under Checking and replacing fuses or
Checking and replacing circuit breakers later in this chapter.
NOTE: Fuse links should only be repaired by your Ford or
Lincoln-Mercury dealer.
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