2005 Mercury MONTEREY Power Train Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

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2005 Mercury MONTEREY Power Train Problems, Complaints and Defects

 Issue ID917904
 Internal NHTSA #10456630
 ManufacurerFORD MOTOR COMPANY
 BrandMERCURY
 ModelMONTEREY
 Model Year2005
 File date21/04/12
 ComponentPOWER TRAIN
Product type codeVEHICLE
 Description of the problemOur torque converter/transmission failed on our 2005 monterey. My wife was driving the vehicle on route 1 in edison, nj and it lost all gears. I called for emergency towing (it was a saturday evening 4/21) and had it brought to a repair shop. I went to ford's web site to see if there was a recall. I entered the vin and no recall showed up. None. So, i proceeded to have the repair shop start to work on it on (4/23). Now i find that there is a recall (4/26) via a shady, intentionally misleading email from ford. Ford's customer service has been evasive and not helpful. They told me that later in the year torque converters would be available for the replacement, but mine has unfortunately already failed. Furthermore, if we had known that there was a recall, we would have had it towed to a ford dealer, not a local service shop. But their web site specifically said that no recall existed for the vehicle. We now have a vehicle 90 miles away from our home in a repair shop that is going to need major work and the van only has 68,000 miles on it. Ford has failed to help us with this. We have 5 children and this is our only family vehicle. They sold a faulty product, acknowledged it and still will not help us with it.
 Vehicle Mileage at Failure68000
Number of Occurences1
Source of the issueNHTSA WEB SITE
 City and StateWOODSTOWN, NJ
VIN pattern 2MRZA212X5BXXXXXX
 Was vehicle invloved in a crash?N
 Was vehicle involved in a fire?N
 Was incedent reported to police?N
 Was medical attention required?
 Was part original equipment?
No. of injured persons
No. of fatalities
 Date of purchase07/08/26
Was original owner?N
Anti-lock brakesN
Cruise controlN
Number of cylinders6
Drive train type
Transmission type
 Vehicle speed40
 DoT tire identifier
 Tire size
 Location of tire code
 Type of tire failure code
 Was defective tire repaired?
 Date of manufacture
Type of child seat code
Type of restraint
 Dealer's name
 Dealer's telephone number
 Dealer's city
 Dealer's state code
 Dealer's ZIP code
  • 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.
  • What is Failure?

    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.
  • What is Defect?

    Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

 

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