Airbags & Seat Belts issues make up roughly 2% of all Mercury owner complaints. The majority of the issues have been reported by Mountaineer owners.
The complaint we hear about most often is air bag light on in the 2005 Grand Marquis.
Parts supplier, Takata, manufactured defective, shrapnel-hurling airbag inflators that need to be recalled. The issue affects 34 million+ vehicles spread out across 24 brands, making it one of the largest (and most dangerous) recalls in aut…
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The whole situation is quite the mess because across the industry 3.3 million vehicles are getting called back. There have been more confirmed casualties due to the inflators, and now there’s a stop-driving order for certain Ranger owners before it happens again.
The first Takata recall happened in May of 2013, crazy.
keep reading article "Milan Named in Takata Recall Expansion"Unlike the tens of millions of airbag inflators already recalled in millions of vehicles, the 2.7 million inflators have a drying agent (desiccant) called calcium sulfate used to protect the explosive chemical, ammonium nitrate, from moisture.…
keep reading article "Ford Doesn’t Want to Recall 2.7 Million Takata Inflators ", including the 2006-2008 Mercury Milan. Each vehicle needs new passenger-side frontal airbag inflators.…
keep reading article "First Generation Milan Included in Growing Takata Recalls"including the 2006-2011 Mercury Milan. This action in part of a massive new recall of 35-40 million vehicles from numerous automakers.
keep reading article "Milan Part of Massive Takata Airbag Recall"