1998 Mercury Villager defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1998 Mercury Villager. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• FUEL TANK VENT HOSE LEAKAGE
  Engineering Analysis EA00014 · opened May 22, 2000 · closed Jan 4, 2001

  Periodic exposure to liquid gasoline may result in extraction of antidegradants from the subject fuel tank vent hose.hoses which have suffered loss of antidegradants can develop cracks in areas of high strain.fuel may spray or drip from cracked vent hoses following tank fill.starting at job#1 1998 my (california emissi…