Recall Register

Mercury Capri: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 26 recall campaigns for the Mercury Capri, model years 1971 to 1994. NHTSA has 48 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 16 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.

  1. 19716
  2. 19725
  3. 19733
  4. 19746
  5. 19752
  6. 19762
  7. 19771
  8. 19795
  9. 19811
  10. 19831
  11. 19843
  12. 19852
  13. 19912
  14. 19921
  15. 19931
  16. 19941
Mercury Capri: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1994 Mercury Capri NHTSA page1267%3,600,000
1993 Mercury Capri NHTSA page15167%3,750
1992 Mercury Capri NHTSA page17233%648
1991 Mercury Capri2301000%4,848
1985 Mercury Capri23100%320,008
1984 Mercury Capri300%921,000
1983 Mercury Capri NHTSA page100%185
1981 Mercury Capri NHTSA page1133%6,500
1979 Mercury Capri500%107,509
1977 Mercury Capri NHTSA page100%273,000
1976 Mercury Capri200%317,890
1975 Mercury Capri200%283,941
1974 Mercury Capri600%496,038
1973 Mercury Capri300%612,000
1972 Mercury Capri500%777,939
1971 Mercury Capri600%793,546

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

60 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.

Mercury Capri: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train166.710
Structure1509
Electrical System1509
Engine and Engine Cooling1509
Air Bags1006
Visibility83.35
Fuel System, Gasoline503
Exterior Lighting503
Vehicle Speed Control33.32
Unknown or Other16.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercury Capri, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1992, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercury Capri, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 11 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercury: all 24 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercury Capri: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/capri/. 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 Capri model years have the most recall campaigns?
1974 with 6, 1971 with 6, 1979 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercury Capri model year has the most complaints?
The 1991 model year, with 30 of the 48 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercury Capri name?
Power Train: 166.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 150 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 150 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercury Capri?
10 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.