1996 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS Complaints

BRAKE FAILURE, REPLACEMENT OF LINE. BRAKE LINE HAD CORRODED. *BF THE BRAKE WARNING LIGHT HAD COME ON. THE BRAKE WAS ALMOST ON THE FLOOR IN ORDER TO STOP THE VEHICLE. THERE WAS LEAKING WHERE THE CORROSION WAS. *SC *JB

WHILE DRIVING ON INTERSTATE PLASTIC INTAKE MANAFOLD CRACKED, RESULTING IN COOLANT SPRAYING ENTIRE ENGINE COMPARTMENT AND LIMITING VISABILITY. ENTIRE RADIATOR WAS EMPTY IN MATTER OF SECONDS. REPLACEMENT PART WAS REDESIGNED ADMITTING THAT THERE WAS A DESIGN FAULT IN ORIGINAL.*AK

THE VEHICLE WAS LEAKING COOLANT. THE COOLANT CROSSOVER TUBE CRACKED AND WAS SPRAYING COOLANT INTO THE ALTERNATOR. IT IS A KNOWN PROBLEM WITH THESE VEHICLES. FORD SHOULD HAVE RECALLED THESE VEHICLES TO REPAIR THEM.*AK

INTAKE MANIFOLD HAD TO BE REPLACED. THE MANUFACTURED MANIFOLD IS MADE OF SOME SORT OF PLASTIC. THE REPLACEMENT MANIFOLD IS ALSO MADE OF THE SAME SORT OF PLASTIC, BUT HAS BEEN REVISED. LINCOLN MERCURY CONSIDERS THE NEW MANIFOLD IMPROVED. THE NEW ONE HAS AN ALUMINUM METAL ON THE FRONT SECTION OF MANIFOLD WHERE ALTERNATOR SUPPORT BRACKET BOLTS IN TO HOLD BACK OF ALTERNATOR. SPEAKING TO MANY GARAGES DEALING WITH THESE SAME TYPE OF VEHICLES IT WAS STATED THAT THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THESE TYPES OF VEHICLES. REASONING BELIEVED TO BE IS FROM THE VIBRATION OF ALTERNATOR BRACKET WHERE IT BOLTS INTO THE INTAKE MANIFOLD. THE INTAKE MANIFOLD BETWEEN THE 2 MOUNTING BOLTS OF THE ALTERNATOR BRACKET CRACKED ACROSS THE 2 BOLTS. *AK

CONSUMER NOTICED THAT VEHICLE WAS LEAKING COOLANT. VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT REPAIR SHOP, AND MECHANIC DETERMINED THE INTAKE MANIFOLD CRACKED AND COOLANT SPILLED INSIDE THE ENGINE. MECHANIC INDICATED THE NEED TO REPLACE THE INTAKE MANIFOLD. *AK *NM

WHILE DRIVING AT NIGHT THE HEAD LIGHTS WERE VERY DIM. IT LOOKED AS IF THERE WERE NO LIGHTS ON THE VEHICLE. THE CONSUMER HAD TO DRIVE WITH THE HIGH BEAMS ON TO SEE. THE CONSUMER TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER. THEY TOLD THE CONSUMER THE VEHICLE WAS OUT OF WARRANTY. *JB

WHILE DRIVING AT 45 MPH, THE VEHICLE OVERHEATED AND STALLED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A INDEPENDENT SHOP. THE MECHANIC DETERMINED THE INTAKE MANIFOLD WAS CRACKED AND COOLANT SPILLED INSIDE THE ENGINE. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *JB

MY CAR INTAKE CRACKED. THE CAR DEALERSHIP INFORMED US THAT THERE WAS A RECALL OF POLICE VEHICLES BY MERCURY/FORD FOR THIS PROBLEM BUT NOT TO CONSUMERS. *AK

WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH CONSUMER NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE. CONSUMER WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE, AND PULLED OVER. VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE DEALER FOR INSPECTION, AND MECHANIC DETERMINED THAT THE INTAKE MANIFOLD WAS CRACKED AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. *AK

SUDDEN LOSS OF COOLANT DUE TO A FAILURE OF THE PLASTIC INTAKE MANIFOLD. RE-PLACEMENT PART HAS BEEN REDESIGNED WITH A METAL AREA WHERE FAILURE OCCURRED. THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS MODEL. VEHICLE HAS 86,000 ORIGINAL MILES ON IT.*AK