Common questions

What should I do if my Mercury Mariner wont start?

What should I do if my Mercury Mariner wont start?

Grab your voltmeter and yank the starter relay. You’ll be testing the terminals in the relay socket. Look at the bottom of the relay to find the terminal number and locate those same terminals in the socket. With the key turn to the START position, you should see battery voltage on terminals 2 & 3.

Where is the starter relay on a Mercury Mariner?

Ford uses an antitheft system to tell the PCM to energize a starter relay located in the battery Junction box. The image shown here is from a 2008 Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner. So your first job is to find out whether the no start problem is due to a bad relay or some other component or wiring harness.

What kind of car is Mercury Mariner Premier?

Alright people, try to help me out here…my girlfriend owns a 2008 Mercury Mariner Premier with a V6 engine…had to add that my girlfriend owns it because I would never own a vehicle made by ford due to it’s poor reliability, but anyway, she’s owned the vehicle for a little over a year, has 19,000 miles on it, and is having problems.

What’s the junction box on a 2008 Mercury Mariner?

2008 Ford Escape Junction box which is similar to 2008 Mercury Mariner. Ford uses an antitheft system to tell the PCM to energize a starter relay located in the battery Junction box. The image shown here is from a 2008 Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner.

Grab your voltmeter and yank the starter relay. You’ll be testing the terminals in the relay socket. Look at the bottom of the relay to find the terminal number and locate those same terminals in the socket. With the key turn to the START position, you should see battery voltage on terminals 2 & 3.

Ford uses an antitheft system to tell the PCM to energize a starter relay located in the battery Junction box. The image shown here is from a 2008 Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner. So your first job is to find out whether the no start problem is due to a bad relay or some other component or wiring harness.

Why does my Mercury Mariner engine keep buzzing?

Turned the ignition off (no buzzing) turned the ignition on and started the engine-buzzing sounded again. I,brought the vehicle to the dealership were I purchased it from. The technician listened to it and said it is the fuel pump.

2008 Ford Escape Junction box which is similar to 2008 Mercury Mariner. Ford uses an antitheft system to tell the PCM to energize a starter relay located in the battery Junction box. The image shown here is from a 2008 Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner.

What causes a Mercury Mariner to not start?

While there are a variety of reasons your Mercury Mariner won’t start, the most common 3 are a dead battery, an alternator problem, or failed starter. How is a no-start diagnosis fixed?

Turned the ignition off (no buzzing) turned the ignition on and started the engine-buzzing sounded again. I,brought the vehicle to the dealership were I purchased it from. The technician listened to it and said it is the fuel pump.

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