Recall Register

Mercury Montego: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the Mercury Montego, model years 1970 to 2007. NHTSA has 260 complaints on file for this model line. 8 of the 10 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. 19701
  2. 19722
  3. 19732
  4. 19742
  5. 19752
  6. 19764
  7. 20040
  8. 20052
  9. 20060
  10. 20071
Mercury Montego: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2007 Mercury Montego136138%2,945
2006 Mercury Montego085327%
2005 Mercury Montego2135519%262,743
2004 Mercury Montego NHTSA page0312%
1976 Mercury Montego400%436,288
1975 Mercury Montego214%281,740
1974 Mercury Montego200%202,092
1973 Mercury Montego200%86,666
1972 Mercury Montego200%1,505,335
1970 Mercury Montego NHTSA page100%3,692

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

360 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 Montego: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train241.787
Vehicle Speed Control141.751
Electrical System116.742
Engine83.330
Service Brakes, Hydraulic7527
Structure44.416
Engine and Engine Cooling41.715
Fuel System, Gasoline33.312
Fuel/Propulsion System30.611
Air Bags27.810

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercury Montego, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2005, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Mercury Montego, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2011, with 41 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercury: all 26 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercury Montego: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/montego/. 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
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 Montego model years have the most recall campaigns?
1976 with 4, 2005 with 2, 1975 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercury Montego model year has the most complaints?
The 2005 model year, with 135 of the 260 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercury Montego name?
Power Train: 241.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 141.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 116.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercury Montego?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.