Recall Register

2004 Mercury Mountaineer: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2004 Mercury Mountaineer. NHTSA has 210 complaints on file for this model year. 3 NHTSA investigations name 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 2004 Mercury Mountaineer. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 210 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

210 complaints, 271 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.

  • 2004 Mercury Mountaineer
  • All 2004 vehicles
2004 Mercury Mountaineer: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2004 MountaineerAll 2004 vehiclesMountaineer, all yearsMentions
Structure313.773.3112.685
Power Train247.2113.4150.867
Vehicle Speed Control77.541.383.521
Electrical System59129.371.816
Engine and Engine Cooling44.360.76212
Air Bags44.378.930.612
Unknown or Other33.225.123.19
Engine29.536.9208
Suspension25.851.140.17
Visibility22.139.638.56

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 22.

Complaints that report a crash
11
Complaints that report a fire
2
Injuries in the complaints
16
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
21 Jun 2021

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 2004 Mercury Mountaineer, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 27 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2004 Mercury Mountaineer
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA09013Engineering analysisVehicle Rollaway AllegationsPower Train / Automatic Transmission / Gear Position Indication (Prndl)18 Aug 200912 Feb 2013
RQ08003Recall queryREAR LIFTGATE GLASS HATCH FAILUREStructure / Body / Hatchback/Liftgate23 Jun 200824 Oct 2008
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. 19961
  2. 19976
  3. 19985
  4. 19997
  5. 20006
  6. 20013
  7. 20022
  8. 20030
  9. 20040
  10. 20050
  11. 20061
  12. 20070
  13. 20081
  14. 20090
  15. 20101

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. 2004 Mercury Mountaineer: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/mountaineer/2004/. 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 Mountaineer have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 19 recall campaigns for the Mercury Mountaineer, model years 1996 to 2010. None of them names the 2004 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2004 Mercury Mountaineer name most often?
Structure: 85 of 271 component mentions, or 313.7 per 1,000. For all 2004 vehicles the figure is 73.3 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2004 Mercury Mountaineer open?
No. Each of the 3 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.