2006 Mercury Milan: stuck in gear or won't shift

5 of the 214 complaints about the 2006 Mercury Milan describe stuck in gear or won't shift.

owner complaints: 5
of this car's complaints: 2%
typical mileage: 95,000
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 5 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Stuck in gear or won't shift by model year

2011
4
2010
24
2009
1
2008
3
2007
3
2006
5

What owners say

Filed Dec 9, 2018 · Acceleration, Engine · 161,000 miles · MI

Started car for a drive after oil change/ disconnect battery for terminal cleaning and reconnect. Upon acceleration, could not get car to shift unless let off gas. Shifts hard, did not shift 3 and 4 gear until acceleration of at least 55 MPH, then 70 in 4th gear. On highway seemed to want to slow down. Upon parking, let it idle. Car flashed engine light, wrench and curvy road. Idling was rough, as if vacuum was not working. Turned car off and then on. Wrench disappeared and curvy road but engine light on. Checked codes. Only threw one code not related to problem. Unable to drive this way. So many complaints but no recalls. Never buying a ford again. Looks like time for foreign car.

Filed May 8, 2017 · Acceleration, Engine · 65,000 miles · WA

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 mercury milan. While driving various speeds, the vehicle went into limp mode and the speed suddenly decelerated to under 20 MPH. When the failure occurred, the speed would not increase past 20 MPH when depressing the accelerator pedal. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the electronic throttle body was faulty. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 65,000. ..updated 06/27/17 *bf

Filed Dec 29, 2014 · Acceleration, Electrical · 95,000 miles · MA

Turned my car on one morning and a wrench indicator light came on followed by the check engine light upon driving to my repair shop to get problem looked at noticed a significant decrease in acceleration power and vehicle was in "limp mode" my mechanic told me. Looked up the issue and found it was a common issue with my make and model and that a complaint has been submitted for a recall of the throttle body on my vehicle and many others so I am submitting my complaint to help get this issue put into recall status as the part is fairly expensive and I don't believe we as a consumer should have to pay out of pocket for a defect from faulty parts installed on the vehicle at the factory.

Filed Jun 18, 2013 · Acceleration · 111,400 miles · MO

We were going up a hill on the interstate at 70mph when the engine suddenly lost power. I'm told it went into limp mode. There had been no warning of a problem.

Filed May 4, 2012 · Engine, Transmission · 72,390 miles · CO

When switching lanes on a highway at 45 MPH, attempted to accelerate but car which is an automatic would not shift. Had to get to shoulder to get car slowed down and get it to shift into gear. After that incident it would only drive in the lower drive gear not in the normal drive gear. After car had been parked for 30 minutes, the car would work in normal drive gear but still did a hard pop to shift gears with a hard acceleration. Mechanic determined that the transmission will go into neutral and than pop into gear. Ford is aware of issue as had issued a technical service bulletin on correcting the issue. A transmission with only 70000 miles should not be shifting into neutral by itself which creates a potential for an accident especially on a highway that may not have shoulders for the driver to move its now slow vehicle out of traffic.