Which Mercury Vehicles Have Dangerous Takata Airbags?
The propellent Takata used is exploding with such force that it’s ripping the inflators into tiny metal fragments and shooting them in the direction of vehicle occupants. To make matters worse, the inflators are exploding in low-speed accidents with very little impact.
Which Mercury Vehicles Have Been Recalled? ∞
Make | Model | Years | Limited To |
---|---|---|---|
Mercury | Milan | 2006-2011 | |
2010 | Zone B | ||
2009 | Zone C |
What are Zones? ∞
Some Takata recalls are being broken down into what NHTSA calls “zones”. A zone is a group of states and territories where a vehicle was originally sold or registered at some point in time. A few notes about zones:
- A vehicle can be recalled in more than one zone.
- When no zone is defined, the recall was more widespread. Possibly internationally.
- If you find this all very confusing, you’re not alone my friend.
With that in mind:
- Zone A: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan) and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- Zone B: Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
- Zone C: Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Generations Where This Problem Has Been Reported
This problem has popped up in the following Mercury generations.
Most years within a generation share the same parts and manufacturing process. You can also expect them to share the same problems. So while it may not be a problem in every year yet, it's worth looking out for.
1st Generation Milan
- Years
- 2006–2011
- Reliability
- 24th out of 28
- PainRank™
- 5.54
- Complaints
- 123
Further Reading
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The Milan is part of another Takata recall expansion announced by Ford.
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"Mercury's parent company has petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to be exempted from the Takata recall.
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 "Ford Motor Company announced it will recall 816,000 vehicles with dangerous Takata airbags-and-seat-belts
, 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"Ford is recalling almost 1.9 million vehicles to replace Takata passenger-side frontal airbag inflators,
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"