1996 Mercury Mystique Owner's Manual - Page 72

To turn your heater system on, select any position except OFF. This will turn the fan on and allow air flow into the vehicle. To turn your heater off, select OFF. This will turn the fan off and stop air flow from coming into the vehicle. Your vehicle also has small demister openings on each front door near the window. This allows a small amount of air flow to be directed onto the door glass to reduce fogging whenever the heater system is operating. The temperature control knob is located at the right side of the control with a broken RED and BLUE band around the top and sides of the knob. The all RED part of the band (full right) is the heat or warmer area. The all BLUE area (full left) is the cool or unheated temperature area. Any position selected between full right and full left will give a temperature between the two extreme temperatures. The cool temperature you select will not be cooler than the outside temperature if your vehicle is not equipped with an air conditioner. H Fan speed adjustment The H (left) knob on the control is the fan speed knob which controls the volume of air flow. Rotate the H knob to HI to increase fan speed and increase the amount of air entering the vehicle. Four fan speed positions are available and are indicated by LO, two single dots and HI beside the H control knob. Air flow selections PANEL Use PANEL to bring outside air through the instrument panel registers. You can heat the air in this position by rotating the temperature control knob into the RED area. The air CANNOT be cooled below the outside temperature regardless of the temperature control knob setting. 70