1999 Mercury Villager defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1999 Mercury Villager. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• FAILING HEADLIGHTS
  Preliminary Evaluation PE04020 · opened Feb 26, 2004 · closed Jun 24, 2004

  Nissan and ford found that the original equipment headlight stainless steel bulb terminals may over time cause elevated contact resistance and overheat the electrical connector housing.this can result in a headlight flickering, bulb outage and heat deformation to the headlight connector.in april 1999, the supplier of t…