Fuses And Circuit Breaker Problems of Mercury Sable

The contact owns a 2001 Mercury Sable. The vehicle is experiencing electrical system failure. Whenever it rains, the fuse box on the driver's side door gets wet. The interior lights remain illuminated in the passenger compartment. The current mileage was 113,754 and failure mileage was 113,700.

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The contact states on occasion when he puts on the brakes instead of braking the car will accelerate and the engine will rev. Has to stomp on the brakes, turn off the ignition and/or put the car in neutral to get it to stop. The contact noticed this just after purchasing the car in June. It has gotten progressively worse. Vehicle is a 2001 Mercury Sable. The dealer cannot duplicate the problem. He has not talked to the manufacturer. The cigarette lighter was inoperative, the fuse was replaced.

Exhibiting multiple electrical concerns such as clock radio resets itself to 12:00. Heat comes on by itself. The air conditioner will not work. Traced concern to open inpower feed circuit to under dash fuse panel. Repaired loose connection.

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The car would not start even though the battery was not dead. After switching the remote entry back and forth from lock to unlock several times, the engine started. The engine simply stopped without warning several times at various speeds from 65 to about 20mph. The dealer claimed a contact in the fuse box was not long enough to make sufficient contact with the fuse. I also suspect the anti-theft device or ignition switch might be at fault.

Started car, proceeded to leave parking lot and Sable stalled. Unable to restart. Had vehicle towed to dealership where vehicle was purchased. First attempt at repair replaced fuse to fuel pump. Left dealership and vehicle stalled again, 3 miles away from dealership. Vehicle towed back to same dealership. Invoice 177076 reads "previous repair as stated on ro-fuse blown. Found und faulty sender and pump to fuel tank. Performed med extensive tests to reveal problem. Removed fuel tank from vehicle and tested sender unit and pump assembly. Found chaffed wires inside fuel cell which could have caused a fire. Repair parts and reassembled tank to vehicle. Retested and parts seem to be working as designed. ".

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Fuel pump wire within fuel tank which was rubbing on the outgoing metal supply line shorted out, causing a fuse to blow out. Also, could lead to a possible fuel tank fire/explosion.