Who does Ford get to write their shop manuals? It's bad enough that they are all but incomprehensible, even to a mechanic - without being totally inacurate in many ways to boot.
Case in point. Just got a 1996 Merc Mystique for the wife - fully loaded - but only one keyless entry fob. So, I head off to the wrechers and snag a pair of fobs from a Sable. (same fob).
Dig out the trusty (ha ha ha) shop manual to get the instructions for recoding the keyless entry system to the new fobs. Manual tells me there is a connector taped to the wiring harness that needs to be momentarily shorted with the key on to put the lock control into "learn mode". That's good - heard that before - but then it tells me to remove the left luggage compartment trim panel to find the plug. Seams like a strange place for a programming plug for remote door locks, but what the heck, I'm only an old auto mechanic.
I removed the left panel - nothing. Mabee they meant the "other left" as my directionally challenged wife so eloquently puts it - so I pulled the right panel. Nothing. So, I go to the back of the manual where the "power door diagnostic plug" is shown taped to the bottom of the door control module just below the RIGHT A PILLAR. - behind (or in front of) the glove box.
I'l bet even a Chiltons manual would have gotten it right!!!