Recall Register

Mercury Mystique: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 19 recall campaigns for the Mercury Mystique, model years 1994 to 2002. NHTSA has 1,019 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 9 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. 19940
  2. 19958
  3. 19967
  4. 19974
  5. 19988
  6. 19992
  7. 20003
  8. 20010
  9. 20020
Mercury Mystique: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Mercury Mystique NHTSA page022%
2001 Mercury Mystique NHTSA page022%
2000 Mercury Mystique36356%582,016
1999 Mercury Mystique2128113%440,769
1998 Mercury Mystique8231204%2,679,589
1997 Mercury Mystique47163%1,559,743
1996 Mercury Mystique7185163%1,882,626
1995 Mercury Mystique8335296%911,855
1994 Mercury Mystique NHTSA page022%

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

1,510 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 Mystique: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling164.9249
Electrical System135.1204
Power Train100151
Suspension84.8128
Service Brakes, Hydraulic74.2112
Visibility60.992
Structure50.376
Steering49.775
Fuel System, Gasoline4771
Vehicle Speed Control4365

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercury Mystique, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 6 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercury Mystique, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 177 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercury: all 26 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercury Mystique: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/mystique/. 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 Mystique model years have the most recall campaigns?
1998 with 8, 1995 with 8, 1996 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercury Mystique model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 335 of the 1,019 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercury Mystique name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 164.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 135.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 100 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercury Mystique?
11 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.