Under my hood started smoking, I popped my hood to find flames under it. I had to get my kids out the truck and put the flames out with and extinguisher. That's when I noticed that my brake fluid reservoir was melted and so were the wires that connect to the cruise control switch. Not I am without a vehicle to get to work and get my children to school.
1998 Mercury Mountaineer: adaptive cruise control problems
9 of the 236 complaints about the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer describe adaptive cruise control problems.
- owner complaints
- 9
- of this car's complaints
- 4%
- typical mileage
- 130,000
- recalls
- 0
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
Adaptive cruise control problems by model year
What owners say
Consumer complaint concerning vehicle catching on fire . *ts the vehicle caught on fire on 8/25/06. The recall repair for the cruise control deactivation switch was scheduled for 8/28/06. The consumer feels that the switch was the cause of the fire. The consumer is requesting the blue book value from the manufacturer.
Dt*: the contact stated while the vehicle was being inspected by an independent repair shop it caught on fire. A report was filed by the fire department. The mechanic determined the fire was caused by the cruise control switch over heating. The vehicle is currently awaiting the replacement parts for the cruise control and surrounding damaged parts. There is a the federal safety agency recall, # 99v062001, regarding the cruise control. The VIN was not included in the recall.
Drove about 30 minutes, parked vehicle, and about 45 minutes later vehicle was on fire. Flames were coming from driver's side fender well. Prior to fire, no problems reported. Vehicle had cruise control which was not used in the last year, and did not know if it worked. Vehicle was insured by farmers insurance. They had a fire investigation done. The report stated that fire was caused by vehicle speed control deactivation switch. Policy #0040483408, claim #1005487896. Has pictures and them will e-mail to bruce york.*ak *tt
Electronic controls operated by the generic control module (wipers, rear defroster, power windows etc.) have locked up. Throttle sticks after full stop and use of cruise control and needs excessive force to move forward. Existing recalls should cover these repairs, as well as two other recalls for the corrosive hood latch, and speed control where the throttle could ice up in prolonged cold weather. I went in armed with documentation and the recall information from the website but the sayville ford dealership in sayville, ny, refused to service them, stating they were "campaigns" not actual recalls. If your vehicle doesn't come up for service on their computer, they do not acknowledge the legal recalls and won't do the repairs. Recall #'s: 00v072000, 99v062001, 99v164000, 97v074000.
While turning right through a cloverleaf interstate entrance ramp at approximately 35-40 MPH I attempted to accelerate and merge with on-coming traffic. The accelerator pedal popped and went under the brake pedal. I was able to pull to the side of the road and visually verified that the accelerator pedal bracket had broken. This is the metal bracket that was spot welded to the cowl panel/("firewall"). This left 3 holes in the cowl panel, each being approximately 7/32" in diameter. I was able to drive the vehicle home by pulling the accelerator pedal towards me until I was above 30 MPH, then I controlled the speed using the cruise control. I was out of my home state when this occured, and because of my location at the time of failure I was forced to drive the vehicle in this condition for 3 hours. Both my wife and I had extreme headaches the remainder of the night and my 2 yr old daughter screamed most of the trip after that occurence. This possibly could have been caused by carbon monoxide poisoning due to the 3 holes left in the cowl panel which are directly next to the lh cylinder head of the engine. We all felt fine this morning. I am an ase certified master technician so I will likely repair this myself using screws and loctite.
While driving on highway with cruise control on, had to slow down, applied brakes, but it didn't turn off the cruise control. Kept applying brakes, and cruise control finally turned off. Had vehicle serviced for hood latch recall, and let them know about cruise control problem. However, was not able to fix it because they had to order a carburetor kit.
The fuse connected to the a.c. ,signals,heat,and cruise control keeps " going out " time and time again. I had this problem corrected 4 times and again it happenned . I was about to go to abtraintion hearing, but I gave ford 1 more chance with there customer service engineer. This is dangerous because the signals and defroster not enabling safe driving. I don't what to do , I tried calling ford and the dealership and they can't fix this problem correctly. Please help me.
Car began accelerating without driver input when cruising at highway speeds. Cruise control was not on. Braking would stop unplanned acceleration
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer adaptive cruise
Is adaptive cruise control problems a common problem on the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer?
9 of 236 owner complaints about the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer (4%) mention adaptive cruise control problems. The model year with the most reports is 2004.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer?
There is no recall or service bulletin for this area of the car on record.
Other symptoms on the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer
Tire blowout 35Fire or smoke 21Door locks 8Check engine light 7Wipers 7Stalling 6
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