Vehicle quitting in intersection and car losing all power entering garage. Vibration and pulling to right at highway speeds. Egr valve replaced twice.
Mercury Cougar pulling problems
14 of the 1,673 owner complaints about the Mercury Cougar describe pulls to one side, most of them for the 1999 model year.
- owner complaints
- 14
- worst model year
- 1999
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
By model year
- 20012
- 19995
- 19971
- 19961
- 19952
- 19931
- 19902
Often reported together
Grinding brakes 3Ball joint 2Wipers 1Tire blowout 1Power steering loss 1Loss of power 1Jerking 1Brake failure 1
What owners say
1999 mercury cougar has problems with the speakers, battery equipment, brake equipment and instrument cluster.***no answer required***. *mr the vehicle pulled to the right while driving. The consumer stated on a separate occasion while driving she noticed the vehicle had no brakes, the consumer was able to find a mechanic who determined all for rotors and pads needed to be replaced. The consumer stated the brake light did not illuminate.
While driving at 65 MPH windshield wipers stopped working. Also, while driving at any speed vehicle pulled to the right. Vehicle was taken to a mechanic , who informed the consumer that new tires were needed.
The car shook and pulled to the right for a year and nobody could located the problem. The ball joint was replaced and the pulling stopped. Nlm
Vehicle was going 20mph right ball joint locked up. Vehicle steered staright, but was pulling right. Evertually, vehicle stopped itself. Mercury dealer was notified.
While driving 35-40 MPH and applying brakes there was a grinding noise, and vehicle pulled to the left. Consumer inspected brakes, brake pad had ground into the rotor. Consumer replaced left front rotor.
After regular tire rotation at 28,000 miles, the car started to pull to the right (the side where the defective tires were on), the steering was jerky and an audible thrumming could be heard. It was noticeable as slow as 10 MPH and grew increasingly worse as the vehicle sped up. When we had the vehicle inspected at three different locations, they all concluded that tire separation was the cause and was the possible cause of the car being out of alignment. We corrected the alignment and purchased four new tires (yokohama) and the problems are gone.( dot number: w2b0 tire size: 215/50r16 )
When I purchased the car new, it had a real hard pull to right. I took it back to the dealer to check out. They aligned the front end , still hard pull . They sent me to the same firestone dealer. They said it was in the alignment (11,200mi) after the alignment($100) the mechanic put back on rack to rotate tires , I would not agree to that, so I went to tire america to buy new tires,(michelin) and the hard pull went away. So firestone has made junk tires for sometime!! I don't want nothing from firestone!! They wouldn't help when they should have!!!don't think that I am just jumping on the band wagon, just want to tell my side of the story, ford and firestone wouldn't listen. Thanks!!!unk t( dot number: tire size: p215/70r15 )
Excessive wear of the front brake rotors and pads. Upon acceleration vehicle pulls to the right. Also, alternator fuse has blown twice, dealer has put in a larger fuse, but did not solve problem. Dealer has yet to determine the cause. *ak
I have had the car in 3 seperate times for the front brakes. They continue to grind and the car pulls to the right or left. I have noticed a decrease in brake performance.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the Mercury Cougar pulling
Which Mercury Cougar years have pulls to one side problems?
The model years with the most reports are 1999 (5 complaints), 1990 (2 complaints) and 1995 (2 complaints).
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