We have a Ford Fusion, 1.6 l diesel, a little under 10 years old (Dec.
2005). I recently bought a tyre compressor to replace an earlier pump that was clapped out. On plugging the new one into the 'cigar lighter' socket and switching it on, it hiccupped and died.'Oh bugger, it's blown a fuse', I thought.
Fuse board behind the glove compartment; diagram on back panel of said compartment. Cigar lighter fuse shown as third in from right on bottom row. OK, so far so good. But WTF, there's no fuse there, just a space! All the other fuses are in place, with ratings matching the diagram, suggesting I'm not reading it wrongly.
Yet I've been happily using the cigar lighter socket with my old compressor for years. But the socket is now dead; won't drive the old compressor, and no volts detected with a voltmeter.
So is there another fuse somewhere else in the cigar lighter circuit, or a reset button that needs pushing; does the fuse in the above panel self-eject when it blows, or what? The manual is dumb on the matter (as it is on several matters relating to our model of the Fusion. I suspect it refers to a different, possibly earlier model, and the manuals relating to ours weren't ready in time to include them when ours was bought).