Mercury Villager: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 17 recall campaigns for the Mercury Villager, model years 1992 to 2002. NHTSA has 1,725 complaints on file for this model line. 8 of the 11 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 Mercury Villager NHTSA page | 0 | 18 | 11% | |
| 2001 Mercury Villager NHTSA page | 1 | 20 | 13% | 2,500 |
| 2000 Mercury Villager | 2 | 71 | 45% | 211,635 |
| 1999 Mercury Villager | 4 | 185 | 118% | 113,888 |
| 1998 Mercury Villager | 2 | 83 | 53% | 400,000 |
| 1997 Mercury Villager | 3 | 125 | 80% | 401,300 |
| 1996 Mercury Villager | 2 | 188 | 120% | 451,400 |
| 1995 Mercury Villager | 3 | 367 | 234% | 473,540 |
| 1994 Mercury Villager | 3 | 253 | 161% | 466,957 |
| 1993 Mercury Villager | 5 | 414 | 264% | 459,853 |
| 1992 Mercury Villager NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 1% |
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
2,205 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 193.7 | 427 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 104.3 | 230 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 87.1 | 192 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 81.2 | 179 |
| Visibility | 69.4 | 153 |
| Structure | 60.3 | 133 |
| Seat Belts | 54.4 | 120 |
| Exterior Lighting | 46.3 | 102 |
| Power Train | 44.4 | 98 |
| Equipment | 36.7 | 81 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Sable46 campaigns
- Grand Marquis32 campaigns
- Milan13 campaigns
- Mountaineer19 campaigns
- Cougar48 campaigns
- Mariner6 campaigns
- Mystique19 campaigns
- Tracer10 campaigns
- Monterey9 campaigns
- Marquis18 campaigns
- Topaz9 campaigns
- Montego15 campaigns
- Mariner Hybrid0 campaigns
- Marauder0 campaigns
- Mercury14 campaigns
- Milan Hybrid0 campaigns
- Capri26 campaigns
- Lynx20 campaigns
- Zephyr17 campaigns
- XR72 campaigns
- Monarch13 campaigns
- Comet9 campaigns
- Bobcat9 campaigns
- Brougham3 campaigns
- LN75 campaigns
Follow by RSS:Vehicle recalls
Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Mercury Villager: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/villager/. 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 Villager model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1993 with 5, 1999 with 4, 1997 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Mercury Villager model year has the most complaints?
- The 1993 model year, with 414 of the 1,725 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Mercury Villager name?
- Engine and Engine Cooling: 193.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 104.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 87.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercury Villager?
- 12 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.