Driving on freeway, car next to me came into my lane towards my car, I hit my brakes resulting in my vehicle swerving and hitting the median head on at high speed, air bags did not deploy upon impact.
2002 Mercury Cougar: airbags did not deploy in a crash
5 of the 95 complaints about the 2002 Mercury Cougar describe airbags did not deploy in a crash.
- owner complaints
- 5
- of this car's complaints
- 5%
- recalls
- 0
Airbags did not deploy in a crash by model year
What owners say
Tl*the contact owns a 2002 mercury cougar. While driving 30 MPH, the front passenger side crashed into a parked vehicle. The air bags failed to deploy. The road conditions were normal. The vehicle was destroyed and towed. A police report was filed. The driver was transported via ambulance to the emergency room. She was not wearing a seat belt and sustained a head injury and received stitches to her lip. The current and failure mileages were 86,000. *updated 12/12/2007 *bf the consumer wants to know was there a malfunction with the air bags? Updated 12/12/07
My daughter hit the back of a school bus in may of 2006 in which the air bags did not deploy. Last night she barely scraped her rim on a curb and both air bags went off and cracked the windshield. This must have been faulty air bags from the start because they should have went off in the front end collision she had, and should not of released when she hit her rim on a curb.
While driving at 40 MPH a vehicle ahead slammed on the brakes and consumer hit the brakes and the vehicle jumped and accelerated which caused consumer's vehicle to hit the vehicle ahead. During this, the driver seat belt did not restrain, and the air bags did not deploy.
On approx. The 15th of march, my daughter lost all power in car while driving through lunch traffic in town and was nearly rearended by a petroluem tanker. We brought car in to dealership. They ran a battery test and b/c that came back fine they refused to do any further testing. She was having problems getting the key to turn over to start car. They fixed that problem at the same time. On the 15th of may, the car came out of the shop for the 2nd time after it had lost power twice on her while driving again.her. The dealership contacted ford headquarters for recalls. None had been posted, but ford said if they check the fuel filter at the bottem of the fuel tank we would probably find the problem with losing all power(braking, steering, ect.) was that the filter was clogged therefore no gas was getting to the motor and thus this was why the car was losing power. They replaced the fuel pump and said that was a temporary fix for approx the next 3000 miles(for it was happening about every 3000 miles). And that we would have to bring the car in every 3000 miles to remain safe from losing power when it became clogged again. We decided that since ford knew about the problem and refused to do a recall to fix the problem that anyone in my family who drove or rode in the car would be putting their life in danger so we tried to trade the car. The dealership wanted us to pay a $6,000 deficit so we decided to keep the car until we could complete the lemon law process. Three weeks later, my daughter stated she had got really bad gas mileage(15 miles took 1/4 of a tank she measured it) the day before and she was afraid that the car was going to lose power again. It was a friday so the car couldn't go to the dealership til the following week. That night, the 6th of june.she lost brakes and steering while going around a curve. The car hit something in the ditch and rolled 1.5x's to rest upside down. No airbags deployed.seatbeat held her in car.pictures of car and scene avail.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 2002 Mercury Cougar no deployment
Is airbags did not deploy in a crash a common problem on the 2002 Mercury Cougar?
5 of 95 owner complaints about the 2002 Mercury Cougar (5%) mention airbags did not deploy in a crash. The model year with the most reports is 1999.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 2002 Mercury Cougar?
There is no recall or service bulletin for this area of the car on record.
Other symptoms on the 2002 Mercury Cougar
Stalling 23Fuel pump 22Hesitation 22Loss of power 16Check engine light 8
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