1997 Mercury Tracer Electrical system Problems

“While driving air bag light illuminated and vehicle stalled. Driver got the vehicle to the side of the road and vehicle caught on fire under the dashboard.”

“The horn suddenly goes off and won't stop until the fuse is pulled-especially in the middle of the night. I have had to disconnect the horn fuse and drive around with no horn for a year now due to this malfunction. Much time and money was spent trying to find out the problem and was finally told that I would have to replace the entire airbag/horn unit, at a cost of $600.00.”

“I own a 1997 mecury Tracer, that has been in ford, lincoln, Mercury authorized dealership for almost 3 weeks in the service department. The first time I brought my vehicle in was when my engine check light came on. This was on 1/18/2000, the service department informed that my #3 was misfiring and that they need to repplace my sparkplugs and give the car a tune-up. On 1/27/200, my engine check light light came back on. I took it back to the dealship and they found an oil leak and told me the computer read out was the same as before #3 was misfiring . …”

“While driving, a wire harness fire occurred in the vehicle. Dealer was notified, and a mechanic serviced the problem. However, the consumer has experienced a shortage in wire harness again while the vehicle was parked. Consumer removed the connection to battery to prevent a drainage of the power.”

“Consumer was inside of store when he heard horn going off. Consumer took vehicle to dealership. Mechanic told consumer that horn assembly was attached to airbag, and that airbag modular unit had to be replaced as one unit. Consumer stated that just by touching on horn lightly it would go off.”