Mercury Grand Marquis: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 32 recall campaigns for the Mercury Grand Marquis, model years 1977 to 2011. NHTSA has 3,951 complaints on file for this model line. 26 of the 33 model years have a page on this register.

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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.
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Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Mercury Grand Marquis: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2011 Mercury Grand Marquis	2	9	8%	391,888
2010 Mercury Grand Marquis	2	24	20%	391,888
2009 Mercury Grand Marquis	2	26	22%	391,888
2008 Mercury Grand Marquis	3	79	66%	400,688
2007 Mercury Grand Marquis	3	96	80%	392,310
2006 Mercury Grand Marquis	2	143	119%	391,888
2005 Mercury Grand Marquis	4	488	408%	786,728
2004 Mercury Grand Marquis	1	348	291%	296,004
2003 Mercury Grand Marquis	1	362	302%	296,004
2002 Mercury Grand Marquis	0	78	65%
2001 Mercury Grand Marquis	3	157	131%	1,434,500
2000 Mercury Grand Marquis	6	162	135%	900,418
1999 Mercury Grand Marquis	3	164	137%	877,296
1998 Mercury Grand Marquis	5	143	119%	4,702,296
1997 Mercury Grand Marquis	4	316	264%	3,827,296
1996 Mercury Grand Marquis	5	239	200%	3,900,796
1995 Mercury Grand Marquis	5	179	150%	4,019,000
1994 Mercury Grand Marquis	3	156	130%	4,039,000
1993 Mercury Grand Marquis	3	144	120%	4,087,695
1992 Mercury Grand Marquis	3	255	213%	4,087,695
1991 Mercury Grand Marquis	1	82	68%	6,800
1990 Mercury Grand Marquis	0	56	47%
1989 Mercury Grand Marquis	1	58	48%	7,900,000
1988 Mercury Grand Marquis	2	73	61%	7,921,200
1987 Mercury Grand Marquis	4	43	36%	3,661,919
1986 Mercury Grand Marquis NHTSA page	1	21	18%	3,600,000
1985 Mercury Grand Marquis NHTSA page	0	21	18%
1984 Mercury Grand Marquis NHTSA page	1	15	13%	530,000
1983 Mercury Grand Marquis	2	7	6%	134,162
1982 Mercury Grand Marquis NHTSA page	0	3	3%
1981 Mercury Grand Marquis NHTSA page	0	2	2%
1978 Mercury Grand Marquis NHTSA page	0	1	1%
1977 Mercury Grand Marquis NHTSA page	0	1	1%

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

4,956 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 Grand Marquis: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Exterior Lighting	188.7	935
Electrical System	112.2	556
Engine and Engine Cooling	94.2	467
Vehicle Speed Control	92.6	459
Steering	73.8	366
Service Brakes, Hydraulic	64.4	319
Air Bags	50	248
Power Train	48	238
Suspension	37.5	186
Fuel System, Gasoline	33.1	164

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercury Grand Marquis, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 8 campaigns.

Complaints about the Mercury Grand Marquis, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 250 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Sable46 campaigns
Milan13 campaigns
Mountaineer19 campaigns
Cougar48 campaigns
Villager17 campaigns
Mariner6 campaigns
Mystique19 campaigns
Tracer10 campaigns
Monterey9 campaigns
Marquis18 campaigns
Topaz9 campaigns
Montego15 campaigns
Mariner Hybrid0 campaigns
Marauder0 campaigns
Mercury14 campaigns
Milan Hybrid0 campaigns
Capri26 campaigns
Lynx20 campaigns
Zephyr17 campaigns
XR72 campaigns
Monarch13 campaigns
Comet9 campaigns
Bobcat9 campaigns
Brougham3 campaigns
LN75 campaigns

Mercury: all 26 model lines

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Official channels

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Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercury Grand Marquis: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/grand-marquis/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 30 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence: US government work, public domain
Recall file through: 30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through: 30 Sep 2026
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 Grand Marquis model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2000 with 6, 1998 with 5, 1996 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercury Grand Marquis model year has the most complaints?: The 2005 model year, with 488 of the 3,951 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercury Grand Marquis name?: Exterior Lighting: 188.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 112.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 94.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercury Grand Marquis?: 23 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.