Recall Register

Mercury Zephyr: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 17 recall campaigns for the Mercury Zephyr, model years 1978 to 1994. NHTSA has 6 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 7 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. 197810
  2. 19793
  3. 19801
  4. 19811
  5. 19821
  6. 19832
  7. 19940
Mercury Zephyr: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1994 Mercury Zephyr NHTSA page01117%
1983 Mercury Zephyr21117%38,089
1982 Mercury Zephyr NHTSA page11117%2,089
1981 Mercury Zephyr NHTSA page100%1,500
1980 Mercury Zephyr NHTSA page100%3,000
1979 Mercury Zephyr31117%91,556
1978 Mercury Zephyr102233%889,772

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

8 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 Zephyr: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System3753
Seat Belts1251
Fuel System, Gasoline1251
Power Train1251
Suspension1251
Structure1251

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercury Zephyr, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Mercury Zephyr, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercury: all 24 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercury Zephyr: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/zephyr/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
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 Zephyr model years have the most recall campaigns?
1978 with 10, 1979 with 3, 1983 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercury Zephyr model year has the most complaints?
The 1978 model year, with 2 of the 6 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercury Zephyr name?
Electrical System: 3 component mentions. Seat Belts: 1 component mention. Fuel System, Gasoline: 1 component mention.