How To Tell The Year Of A Mercury Outboard Motor

Mercury does not use model years for parts lookup.

How to tell the year of a mercury outboard motor. Knowing the features and year of your mercury outboard can help with ordering mercury outboard parts and mercury outboard repair manuals. For mercury marine outboards and mercruiser sterndrives are unique sets of numbers used to identify certain objects such as marine engines boats automobiles software etc. There is no serial to year cross reference chart for 1997 and later motors. Find the year of your motor on the mercury outboard chart at a website such as max tech marine see resources.

Find the section of the chart that corresponds to your outboards horsepower. Serial numbers between that years beginning serial number and the next fall into the same year. There is no way to find the model year of motors with significantly higher serial numbers than listed in these guides. The first serial number sold in a year becomes the beginning serial number.

The top number on the plate is the serial number but the number directly beneath it is the four digit year of manufacture. Stand with the propeller end of the motor pointing toward you and look at the right side of the motor mount assembly. For engines built prior to 2006 contact any mercury marine dealer. Mercury outboard parts mercruiser parts location serial numbers.

Locate the serial number plate. The serial number if your mercury outboard is a 2006 model or newer you can use the online mercury parts catalog to look up the model year. In the case of mercury outboard parts mercruiser engine parts and mercruiser sterndrive parts its the serial number thats. Nothing in the mercury mariner outboard engine model numbers or serial numbers provides year information directly.

Mercury mariner outboard motor model year lookup guide mercury did not publish model year information for 1997 newer outboards. Select your outboards horsepower and click on the link to the appropriate chart. Mercury mariner outboard motor model year lookup guide please select the criteria above to find the year your outboard engine was manufactured. Mercury has never really used model years for much of anything other than sales tools in dealerships.