Mercury Montego check engine light comes on

Filed Jul 27, 2016 · Transmission · 186,000 miles · NC

My car has a issue with electronic throttle, I called and was told sorry your 189,000 is over 150,000 limit to be repaired. I haven't had the car for 3 years yet. This should be a recall vs a customer care issue. I drove to my son's on monday and car loss power a total of 14 times in a 2 hr drive. I was in heavy traffic. Seems to me ford cares more about their bottom line then their customers lives. I was almost hit several times. I have had it in the shop and the alternator replaced 3 times, with them thinking this is the issue one being replaced yesterday after the one before hand only been on their a little over a month. Come to find out ford knows about the issue with their electronic throttles on vehicles from 2002 and up to date. This is very bad business and I had purchased this car due to a accident I was in (no fault to my own) and I have a permanent disability of a messed up sciatic nerve. I was told no issue, boy was I lied to. This needs to be fixed and asap after I have spent so much in repairs already to find out that wasn't even the issue. Ford needs to step up before someone dies over the negligent of the electronic throttle. I would like to hear from ford on what they are going to do about my vehicle. Also the wrench light comes on the engine light when it goes into loss of power. When in traffic, it's hard to get off the road stately when your car looses power.

Filed Apr 5, 2016 · Acceleration, Engine · 150,000 miles · OH

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 mercury montego. While driving 15 MPH around a corner, the vehicle jerked and the check engine and fail safe mode warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the throttle body control unit failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired; however, the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 150,000.

Filed Feb 3, 2016 · Engine, Transmission · 120,000 miles · AR

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 mercury montego. While driving 50 MPH up an incline, the vehicle jerked. As the accelerator pedal was depressed, the vehicle failed to accelerate and the check engine warning light illuminated. The failure recurred on numerous occasions. The vehicle was taken to a dealer who diagnosed that the valve body needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 120,000.

Filed Jan 12, 2016 · Electrical · 85,000 miles · WA

Dash board gauges and controls. When driving our 2005 montego all of the dash instruments and gauges will go out, and you loose some power, the rear lights go on. This can happen at any moment when the vehicle is in motion, on the interstate, slow speeds. To replace is quite expensive, but in doing some research I have come across thousands of complaints on the same issue, and it's extremely scary and concerning that a safety recall has not been done. You can turn it off but doesn't always reset and when it does the engine light stays on. This occurs while the car is in motion.

Filed Dec 19, 2015 · Electrical · 223,000 miles · MI

Started 2005 montego to pick up fianc from work, got back inside after brushing snow off the car and I pressed the throttle to drop the idle speed, all of the gauges on my instrument panel went black (tach,speed,fuel,water temp,AC/heater), my reverse lights came on, my stereo had really loud static coming through it and my wipers/heater stopped working. Came back a few hours later and gauges worked but check engine, transmission and charging systems lights were on. I put it in gear because I thought the issue was gone and as soon as I got to about 1500 RPM my gauges went black so I stopped and when the idle speed dropped back down my gauges came back on. I tried my headlights and they go out every time my gauges go out, which is any time I get over 1500 RPM.

Filed Aug 11, 2015 · Electrical, Lights · 142,691 miles · MO

Parked car at home after dropping daughter off in town car performed normally. Five hours later went out to pick daughter up. Started car and had no speedometer, odometer, tachometer, no cluster panel at all. No lights on panel, A/C would not function and backup lights came on and stayed on. The wrench symbol light came on at this time. I tested the car daily with the same results, until tuesday, august 11th. I had an appt to take it in to a ford dealer to have it diagnosed. When I started the car at this time, the cluster panel and A/C were working, the backup lights were off (except when in reverse) and the wrench light was now off. However, now the check engine light was on. Diagnosis at the dealership was that the cluster panel was bad and was sending incorrect codes (p0462 & p2067) causing the check engine light to come on. Since those codes are associated with the powertrain control module it could cause the engine to stall at any time.

Filed Apr 21, 2015 · Engine · 85,600 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 mercury montego. While driving approximately 50 MPH, the engine suddenly malfunctioned and shut off. During the incident, the check engine light illuminated and the engine failure message was displayed. After restarting the engine, the vehicle operated as normal. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the throttle body was faulty and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 85,600.

Filed Mar 9, 2015 · Engine · 100,000 miles · LA

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 mercury montego. The contact stated that the service engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where the code was reset, but the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 100,000.

Filed May 28, 2014 · Engine · 126,600 miles · IN

Upon entering traffic flow on I-94 westbound near new buffalo michigan the acceleration of engine quit instantaneously and the engine warning light lit up reading something about a fail safe mode. After coasting back across two traffic lanes to the side of road I shut the engine down. To keep from getting stranded along the highway and since the engine info light read all systems were ok after waiting a few minutes I restarted the motor and it ran ok. I stayed in the slow lane so I could pull off the road if it happened again which it didn't . The next day on county road 500n in indiana it did it again.

Filed Feb 26, 2014 · Transmission · 117,000 miles · PA

Drove car home day before, seemed fine. Went out next morning, car started fine, put into gear, car would not move. Check engine light, check transmission light, check traction control light all came on. Also the "wrench" light came on. Throttle will not work properly, won't let engine rev up. Saw the class action suit for these ford CVT transmissions online, want to sign up for it as these transmissions are dangerous and defective, a well documented fact.