2004 Mercury Mountaineer defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2004 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…

• REAR LIFTGATE GLASS HATCH FAILURE
  Recall Query RQ08003 · opened Jun 23, 2008 · closed Oct 24, 2008

  This investigation was opened on june 23, 2008, based on 34 complaints involving eight injuries in which the rear liftgate glass hatch on model year 2004 ford explorers or mercury mountaineers broke off and fell, usually while individuals were operating the glass hatch or loading or unloading items from the rear of the…

• 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…