Recall Register

2002 Mercury Grand Marquis: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis. NHTSA has 78 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

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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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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 78 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

78 complaints, 101 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.

  • 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis
  • All 2002 vehicles
2002 Mercury Grand Marquis: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2002 Grand MarquisAll 2002 vehiclesGrand Marquis, all yearsMentions
Vehicle Speed Control168.339.292.617
Suspension108.981.237.511
Engine and Engine Cooling99100.394.210
Electrical System9994.6112.210
Steering89.139.673.89
Tires69.324.923.47
Seat Belts69.317.831.17
Service Brakes, Hydraulic59.476.564.46
Exterior Lighting59.433.3188.76
Air Bags29.773.7503

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 20.

Complaints that report a crash
8
Complaints that report a fire
2
Injuries in the complaints
5
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
17 Jul 2025

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2002, with 14 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
DP05005Defect petitionSPARK PLUG EJECTION FROM CYLINDER HEADEngine and Engine Cooling / Engine22 Sep 20054 Jan 2006

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

  1. 19770
  2. 19780
  3. 19810
  4. 19820
  5. 19832
  6. 19841
  7. 19850
  8. 19861
  9. 19874
  10. 19882
  11. 19891
  12. 19900
  13. 19911
  14. 19923
  15. 19933
  16. 19943
  17. 19955
  18. 19965
  19. 19974
  20. 19985
  21. 19993
  22. 20006
  23. 20013
  24. 20020
  25. 20031
  26. 20041
  27. 20054
  28. 20062
  29. 20073
  30. 20083
  31. 20092
  32. 20102
  33. 20112

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/grand-marquis/2002/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Mercury Grand Marquis have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 32 recall campaigns for the Mercury Grand Marquis, model years 1977 to 2011. None of them names the 2002 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis name most often?
Vehicle Speed Control: 17 of 101 component mentions, or 168.3 per 1,000. For all 2002 vehicles the figure is 39.2 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.