1997 Mercury Mountaineer defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1997 Mercury Mountaineer. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• SPARK PLUG EJECTION FROM CYLINDER HEAD
  Defect Petition DP05005 · opened Sep 22, 2005 · closed Jan 4, 2006

  On september 6, 2005, odi received a petition requesting that the agency investigate allegations of engine spark plug ejection in certain model year 1997 through 2004 ford vehicles with triton v-8 and v-10 engines.odi received a total of 474 non-duplicative complaints on the subject vehicles where the complainant, or t…

• WINDSHIELD WIPER MALFUNCTION
  Preliminary Evaluation PE99049 · opened Jul 28, 1999 · closed Apr 24, 2000 · led to recall 00V072000

  There is no summary currently available

• STEERING KNUCKLE SEPARATIONS
  Preliminary Evaluation PE99045 · opened Jul 6, 1999 · closed Oct 29, 1999

  There is no summary currently available

• FUEL LINE DAMAGE FROM JUMP STARTING
  Recall Query RQ98020 · opened Nov 3, 1998 · closed Nov 15, 2000 · led to recall 98V060000

  There is no summary currently available