2002 Mercury Mountaineer defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2002 Mercury Mountaineer. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Vehicle Rollaway Allegations
  Engineering Analysis EA09013 · opened Aug 18, 2009 · closed Feb 12, 2013

  This investigation is being closed based on several considerations.By the most inclusive counting of all alleged rollaway incidents (i.e., counting all alleged rollaway incidents and assuming a singular failure mechanism), the incident rate is low, however during EA09-013, ODI identified a number of different failure m…

• 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…

• STUCK ENGINE THROTTLE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE05037 · opened Jul 7, 2005 · closed Nov 2, 2005

  On july 7, 2005, the office of defects investigation (odi) opened a preliminary evaluation to investigate alleged stuck throttle complaints in certain model year (my) 2002 ford explorer and mercury mountaineer vehicles equipped with the standard available 4.0l sohc v6 engine.at that time, odi was aware of 15 complaints…

• REAR LIFTGATE GLASS ASSEMBLY
  Preliminary Evaluation PE04045 · opened Jun 2, 2004 · closed Sep 28, 2004 · led to recall 04V442000

  Complaints report failure of the rear liftgate glass support while the operator is opening or closing the glass.the falling glass can strike the operator or bystander.the injuries reported are bruises to the head, neck or back, cuts to the face, arm or hand.on september 9, 2004, ford notified the agency that it will re…

• MIS-ASSEMBLED AIRBAG CLOCKSPRING
  Engineering Analysis EA02010 · opened Jul 2, 2002 · closed Feb 25, 2003

  In july 2001, ford issued a special service message announcing that some air bagclockspring devices may produce noise when the steering wheel is turned full left or right.ford was aware that some clocksprings may have been improperly installed.the improper installation may also cause an open circuit and the air bag war…