Mercury Bobcat: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Mercury Bobcat, model years 1975 to 1979. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model line. 4 of the 5 model years have a page on this register.
Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .
Model years
The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 Mercury Bobcat | 2 | 0 | 0% | 83,450 |
| 1978 Mercury Bobcat | 2 | 0 | 0% | 84,956 |
| 1977 Mercury Bobcat | 2 | 1 | 500% | 101,000 |
| 1976 Mercury Bobcat | 5 | 0 | 0% | 2,473,537 |
| 1975 Mercury Bobcat NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1,400,000 |
The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.
Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.
Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.
Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.
Components in the complaints
1 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 1,000 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Sable46 campaigns
- Grand Marquis32 campaigns
- Cougar48 campaigns
- Villager17 campaigns
- Mountaineer19 campaigns
- Mystique19 campaigns
- Tracer10 campaigns
- Topaz9 campaigns
- Marquis18 campaigns
- Monterey9 campaigns
- Mariner6 campaigns
- Montego15 campaigns
- Mercury14 campaigns
- Milan13 campaigns
- Marauder0 campaigns
- Capri26 campaigns
- Lynx20 campaigns
- Zephyr17 campaigns
- XR72 campaigns
- Monarch13 campaigns
- Comet9 campaigns
- Brougham3 campaigns
- LN75 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Mercury Bobcat: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/bobcat/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .
Sources
- Source
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
- Licence
- US government work, public domain
- Recall file through
- 29 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 29 Mar 2018
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY
The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.
Questions
- Which Mercury Bobcat model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1976 with 5, 1979 with 2, 1978 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Mercury Bobcat model year has the most complaints?
- The 1977 model year, with 1 of the 1 complaint for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Mercury Bobcat name?
- Fuel System, Gasoline: 1 component mention.