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2005 Mercury MONTEGO Power Train Automatic Transmission Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	740119
Internal NHTSA #	10284885
Manufacurer	FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Brand	MERCURY
Model	MONTEGO
Model Year	2005
File date	27/03/09
Component	POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	I purchased a new 2005 mercury montego in may 2005. The car now has 85k miles with the 6 speed transmission. The transmission has been fine on short trips (35 miles or less) but anything over that and it starts doing really crazy stuff. It will downshift 3-4 gears at highway speeds... Slam into gear... Then immediately upshift. This happens so hard that the whole car shakes. One time it was so bad, we felt we had been hit. Sometimes it will go to downshift, and just goes to neutral causing major issues when involved with traffic trying to get of the road. This is a major problem which could cause an accident. When shifting from 3-2 at low speeds, it will downshift but shudder the whole car. All these symptoms occur only after trips longer than 35 miles or on a very hot day where the transmission seems to heat up. My local ford garage has tried reprogramming the tcm with no success (first tsb). They now say i need a remanufactured transmission at a cost of nearly $5000. Ford will not help in any way even though i firmly believe this is a factory defect. The car has never been abused, been in an accident, and maintenance performed at or sooner than recommended. The shifting into neutral is a safety issue. Ford needs to step up and admit they have a problem and replace the trans, it appears as they have fixed the problem because all the tsb's for this symptom (2 that i know of) affects only vehicles manufactured before oct 2005. How can ford or any other company know they have an issue and not take corrective action. I have always been a ford man since the early 1970's. How i have been treated with this defect could be construed as criminal. I guess they figure if they hold out long enough, the vehicles will all die and go away and they wont have any obligations whatsoever. In doing research on this vehicle with the 6 speed trans, there are lots of us in the same situation with the same symptoms and the same reply from ford.
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	78000
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	WILMINGTON, IL
VIN pattern	1MEFM42185GXXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
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Date of purchase	07/08/26
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
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Vehicle speed	65
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What is Recall?
A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2005 Mercury MONTEGO Power Train Automatic Transmission Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2005 Mercury MONTEGO Power Train Automatic Transmission Problems, Complaints and Defects

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