1995 MERCURY MYSTIQUE Complaints

WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH AND PASSING ANOTHER VEHICLE, VEHICLE STALLED. TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER, WHO FOUND THAT PLASTIC TENSION WHEEL ATTACHED TO TIMING BELT BROKE. *AK TENSION WHEEL BROKE IN 4 PLACES, CONSUMER STATES THIS PART WAS MADE OF MOLDERS PLASTIC. *SLC

RECALL 00 V 367 000 REPAIRED ON 09-FEB-2001. CONSUMER STATED THAT AFTER RECALL REPAIRS WERE DONE ENGINE SEIZED UP.*AK

ENGINE CHECK LIGHT STARTING COMING ON FALL 2000. HAD DIAGNOSTICS DONE BY THE DEALER AND A SERVICE STATION TWICE AND NOBODY CAN FIND ANYTHING WRONG. IT COMES ON EVERYDAY ABOUT 5 MINUTES AFTER THE CAR HAS STARTED AND STAYS ON THE ENTIRE TIME THE CAR IS RUNNING. STARTED HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE COOLANT SUMMER OF 1999. THE TEMP. GAGE GOES TO 3/4 TO ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT. BUT I AM TOLD THAT NOTHING IS WRONG WITH THAT EITHER. YESTERDAY THE TEMP. GAGE WENT INTO THE RED AND THE FAN NEVER KICKED ON. CHECKED THE COOLANT RESERVE AND THE COOLANT WAS BOILING OUT THE TOP. I CHECKED IT BEFORE DRIVING AND IT WAS NORMAL. I'M TIRED OF PUTTING MONEY INTO THIS CAR. PLEASE LOOK INTO THE PROBLEM. THANK YOU.*AK

CONSUMER TOOK VEHICLE IN FOR RECALL (00S44) AND FOR NO LIGHTS ON RIGHT HALF OF INSTRUMENT PANEL, DEALER DID RECALL REPAIRS AND REPLACED BULB CLUSTER, HOWEVER INDICATOR LIGHTS NO LONGER SHOW UP AT ALL WHEN VEHICLE IS BEING STARTED, THE TECHNICIAN STATED WARNING LIGHTS ONLY COME ON WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM, CONSUMER LIVES WHERE THERE ARE A LOT OF STEEP HILLS AND HAS NO WAY OF KNOWING WHEN OVERDRIVE IS ON OR OFF. *JB *JB

THE ENGINE COOLING FAN SEIZED PRIOR TO RECALL NOTICE 00V-367 CAUSING THE ENGINE TO OVERHEAT, THE ENGINE HAD TO BE REPLACED AT THE CONSUMERS EXPENSE, IN FEB., 2001 THE ENGINE QUIT WORKING AGAIN. NLM

ENGINE CHECK LIGHT KEEPS COMING ON/OFF. DEALER SAID NOT TO WORRY ABOUT IT. RECALL 00V367000/ ENGINE COOLING FAN REPAIRS PERFORMED, YET ENGINE CHECK LIGHT STILL ON. *AK

HAD DEALER INSTALL ELECTRONIC FUSE MODULE. NOTICED THE THREE WIRES TO THE FAN PLUG HAS EXPOSED COPPER WIRE STRANDS DUE TO INSULATION HEAT DAMAGE MAKING THE WIRES TO RADIATOR FAN UNSAFE. DEFECTIVE AND HEAT DAMAGED WIRING TO THE FAN IS ANOTHER REASON A RESULTING UNDERHOOD FIRE CAN BE STARTED.S*AK

SMOKE WAS COMING FROM UNDER HOOD WHILE DRIVING. MANAGED TO PULL OVER TO A PARKING LOT. CHECKED UNDER HOOD. SOMEONE INDICATED THAT ENGINE'S HEAD GASKETS HAD BLOWNOUT. *AK

SWITCH THAT DIMS OR BRIGHTENS DASHBOARD LIGHT HAS BURNED OUT DUE TO POOR CONTACTS.*AK

BATTERY LIGHT COMES ON, AND CONSUMER CAN HEAR FAN RUNNING, AND IT SHOULD NOT RUN ALL THE TIME.*AK