Recall Register

1979 Mercury Zephyr: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the 1979 Mercury Zephyr. The newest campaign is 79V272000. NHTSA received the report on 27 Dec 1979. The NHTSA record gives the component Visibility / Windshield. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for 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, 79V272000, in the NHTSA record

Dealer will reinstall the windshield correctly without charge to owner.
NHTSA VIN lookup

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. 91,556 units in total.

  1. 79V272000Received . 56 units.

    Visibility / Windshield

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Windshields may have been installed on these vehicles without the application of a butyl primer on the mounting surface of the glazing. The primer is required to ensure adequate retention of the windshield to its opening flange. This constitutes a non-compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 212, "windshield mounting".
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealer will reinstall the windshield correctly without charge to owner.

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

  2. 79V117000Received . 82,000 units.

    Service Brakes, Hydraulic / Pedals and Linkages

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The involved vehicles were produced with brake push-rod to brake pedal retaining pins which were not heat-treated as specified. This could allow the brake pedal to become disengaged from the push-rod.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealer will replace the suspect brake retaining pin.

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

  3. 79V039000Received . 9,500 units.

    Equipment / Other / Labels

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The involved vehicles were built with safety compliance certification labels that contained incorrect gvwr and gawr weight information. The gvwr"s could be overstated by up to 197 lbs., due to an error in the reporting of incremental option weights used to derive the gvwr"s and gawr"s.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    The owner has the option of affixing the supplied labels himself or bringing the vehicle in to the dealer to have them affixed.

    Report filed by FORD MOTOR COMPANY.

The campaign number opens the NHTSA record. Each quotation is the text of the NHTSA recall file.

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

1 complaint, 1 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1979 Mercury Zephyr: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Fuel System, Gasoline1
Complaints that report a crash
0
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
8 Nov 1995

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 1979 Mercury Zephyr, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 1 complaint.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

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. 197810
  2. 19793
  3. 19801
  4. 19811
  5. 19821
  6. 19832
  7. 19940

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. 1979 Mercury Zephyr: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercury/zephyr/1979/. 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
29 Mar 2018
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

How many units are in the recall campaigns for the 1979 Mercury Zephyr?
91,556 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 Zephyr have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 17 recall campaigns for the Mercury Zephyr, model years 1978 to 1994. 3 of them name the 1979 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1979 Mercury Zephyr name most often?
Fuel System, Gasoline: 1 of 1 component mention.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1979 Mercury Zephyr open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.