Recall Register

1995 Mercury Tracer: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the 1995 Mercury Tracer. The newest campaign is 97V145000. NHTSA received the report on 3 Sep 1997. The NHTSA record gives the component Fuel System, Gasoline / Storage / Tank Assembly. NHTSA has 96 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

The NHTSA recall file shows no do-not-drive advisory and no park-outside advisory on these campaigns.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Remedy of the newest campaign, 97V145000, in the NHTSA record

Dealers will remove the heat shield attachments. This will not affect heat shield location or function, as the attachments are intended to keep the shield in place until the fuel tank is installed in the vehicle. After installation, the fuel tank straps retain the heat shield.
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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

3 campaigns, newest first. 64,840 units in total.

  1. 97V145000Received . 600 units.

    Fuel System, Gasoline / Storage / Tank Assembly

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Vehicle description: passenger vehicles equipped with 1.9l engines, built at the hermosillo assembly plant and originally sold or currently registered in arizona. Cracks can develop in the fuel tank near the heat shield attachment resulting in fuel leakage if the cracks go through the fuel tank wall.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    Fuel leakage in the presence of an ignition source can result in a vehicle fire.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealers will remove the heat shield attachments. This will not affect heat shield location or function, as the attachments are intended to keep the shield in place until the fuel tank is installed in the vehicle. After installation, the fuel tank straps retain the heat shield.

    Report filed by FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Manufacturer campaign number 97S80. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  2. 97V144000Received . 64,000 units.

    Fuel System, Gasoline / Storage / Tank Assembly

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Vehicle description: passenger vehicles equipped with 1.9l engines, built at the hermosillo or wayne assembly plants and originally sold or currently registered in nevada, florida, hawaii, texas, california, louisiana, georgia, south carolina, mississippi, oklahoma, alabama and arkansas. Cracks can develop in the fuel tank near the heat shield attachment resulting in fuel leakage if the cracks go through the fuel tank wall.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    Fuel leakage in the presence of an ignition source can result in a vehicle fire.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealers will remove the heat shield attachments. This will not affect heat shield location or function, as the attachments are intended to keep the shield in place until the fuel tank is installed in the vehicle. After installation, the fuel tank straps retain the heat shield.

    Report filed by FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Manufacturer campaign number 97S79. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  3. 94V218000Received . 240 units.

    Air Bags / Frontal

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The driver side air bag module can have an inadequately welded inflator canister.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    In the event of a collision, the weld seam can separate, causing the air bag to fail to deploy properly and hot gases to be expelled from the back of the steering wheel. This can result in an increased risk of personal injury from the hot gases and the air bag failure.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealers will install a new air bag module.

    Report filed by FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

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Complaints by component

96 complaints, 126 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.

  • 1995 Mercury Tracer
  • All 1995 vehicles
1995 Mercury Tracer: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1995 TracerAll 1995 vehiclesTracer, all yearsMentions
Fuel System, Gasoline277.84696.835
Engine and Engine Cooling127144.8110.116
Seat Belts95.228.284.912
Electrical System71.479.9131.39
Vehicle Speed Control63.536.247.78
Service Brakes, Hydraulic55.6137.382.27
Power Train39.7108.5575
Suspension39.749.163.75
Equipment39.721.510.65
Visibility31.76130.54

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 21.

Complaints that report a crash
5
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
7
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
14 Jul 2014

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 1995 Mercury Tracer, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 14 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1995 Mercury Tracer
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
RQ97010Recall queryFUEL TANK ASSEMBLYFuel System, Gasoline / Storage / Tank Assembly11 Sep 199722 May 200097V144000

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. 19871
  2. 19883
  3. 19891
  4. 19900
  5. 19912
  6. 19921
  7. 19930
  8. 19941
  9. 19953
  10. 19960
  11. 19971
  12. 19980
  13. 19990
  14. 20000

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. 1995 Mercury Tracer: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/tracer/1995/. 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 units are in the recall campaigns for the 1995 Mercury Tracer?
64,840 units in 3 campaigns. A campaign can name other models and model years, and its units include them.
How many recall campaigns does the Mercury Tracer have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Mercury Tracer, model years 1987 to 2000. 3 of them name the 1995 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1995 Mercury Tracer name most often?
Fuel System, Gasoline: 35 of 126 component mentions, or 277.8 per 1,000. For all 1995 vehicles the figure is 46 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1995 Mercury Tracer open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.